Nazareth Bank is a large submerged bank in the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by ...

Geography

It lies about 1,040 km east of northern

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Afric ...

and 280 km south of the Saya de Malha Bank. The closest land is

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shoals, a small and remote dependency of

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It ...

located 140 km to the southwest. The Nazareth Bank is part of the vast undersea

Mascarene Plateau The Mascarene Plateau is a submarine plateau in the Indian Ocean, north and east of Madagascar. The plateau extends approximately , from Seychelles in the north to Réunion in the south. The plateau covers an area of over of shallow water, wi ...

and of the

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track. The center of the bank is at . Its extent is about 176 km north–south and up to 87 km east–west, with a surface of about 11,000 km². This undersea bank is administered by

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Mauritius District and Dependencies - Nazareth Bank
Landforms of Mauritius Fishing areas of the Indian Ocean Outer Islands of Mauritius Landforms of Africa Undersea banks of the Indian Ocean {{Mauritius-geo-stub

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