Indo-Australian

American  

[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.

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noun

plural

Indo-Australians

1. an Australian with heritage from India.

Example Sentences

The researchers tested the idea near Indonesia’s island of Nias, where the Indo-Australian Plate is bumping under the Sunda Plate.

From Scientific American

To its south, the Indo-Australian plate is slowly being forced beneath it.

From National Geographic

It is the Eurasian plate, not the Indo-Australian plate.

From New York Times

Adiga is an Indo-Australian writer who won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for his debut novel, “The White Tiger.”

From Washington Post

The Indian Ocean floor is marked by the steep and rugged Southwest Indian Ridge, where the northern African and southern Antarctic plates move away from each other, and the relatively smooth and flat Southeast Indian Ridge, where the northern Indo-Australian plate moves away from the southern Antarctic plate.

From Scientific American