Publication abstracts

The Indian Ocean remains one of the unexplored frontiers of our earth. It encompasses nearly 5,000 miles of coast-line and stretches hundreds of miles to the south, east, and west. It has an area 23 times as great as that of India itself and is the only major ocean named after a country. It is only fitting, therefore, that the study of this vast body of water has been taken up as a major subject here in India. The Andhra University, a pioneer in many fields, has introduced the scientific study of the north-eastern part of the Indian Ocean - the Bay of Bengal into its curriculum, and some of the progress in this field is here reported.