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THE INDIAN OCEANworld maritime boundaries atlas · 2021-12-03THE THIRD LARGEST of the world’s oceans, the Indian Ocean covers 28 million sq miles (73 million sq km) and contains some 5,000 islands, many of them surroundedwhat is the meaning of "Atoll" in law of the sea, LOSC and customary international lawarchipelagic state and archipelagic waters legal aspects · 2021-04-20As used in UNCLOS Articles 6 and 47, “atoll” means a reef with or without an island situated on it surrounded by the open sea, that encloses or nearly encloses