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Indo-Australian

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[in-doh-aw-strayl-yuhn] / ˈɪn doʊ ɔˌstreɪl yən /

adjective

  1. relating to or involving both India and Australia or their inhabitants.

  2. of or relating to the Malay Archipelago region, especially in geography or biology.

noun

plural

Indo-Australians

  1. an Australian with heritage from India.

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The quake was among the 10 strongest recorded in New Zealand, which sits between the Pacific and Indo-Australian tectonic plates, and records around 14,000 earthquakes a year, of which around 20 top magnitude 5.0.

From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2010

These double rainy and dry seasons are easily modified by other conditions, as by the monsoons of the Indo-Australian area, so that there is no rigid belt of equatorial rains extending around the world.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

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