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	Encyclopedia article: Saya de Malha Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Saya de Malha Bank is a large undersea bank in the Indian Ocean (The 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the East and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south), part of the vast undersea Mascarene Plateau (additional info and facts about Mascarene Plateau).
		The banks are a breeding ground for Humpback Whale (Large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives) s and Blue Whale (Largest mammal ever known; bluish-gray migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere) s.
		the limestone banks found on the plateau are the remnants of coral reefs, indicating that the plateau was formerly a succession of islands.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/saya_de_malha_bank.htm (274 words)

	Saya de Malha Bank - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The bank was named by Portugese explorers 500 years ago, who encountered the bank on the voyage between the Cape of Good Hope and India.
		If the South Bank it were to be recognized as a submerged atoll structure, it would be the largest of the world, being almost three times as big as the Great Chagos Bank that is commonly considered the largest atoll structure of the world.
		Saya de Malha Bank consists of a series of narrow shoals, with depths from 17 to 29 meters on the rim.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Saya_de_Malha_Bank (644 words)

	Encyclopedia: Saya de Malha Bank
		It lies east of Madagascar, southeast of the Seychelles, and north of the Nazareth Bank, the Cargados Carajos shoals, and the island of Mauritius, and falls into Mauritian Territorial waters.
		Mauritius claims Saya de Malha Bank and it is part of its Exclusive Economic Zone.
		The bank was named by Portuguese explorers 500 years ago, who encountered the bank on the voyage between the Cape of Good Hope and India.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saya-de-Malha-Bank (1527 words)

	Mascarene Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piton de la Fournaise, on the southeastern corner of Réunion, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, erupting last on August 13, 2004.
		Piton de la Rivière Noire (828 m) is the highest peak on Mauritius, and the gentle hills of Rodrigues rise to only 390 m.
		Limestone banks found on the plateau are the remnants of coral reefs, indicating that the plateau was a succession of islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mascarene_Islands (861 words)

	Prof. Aniruddha De - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Investigations of A. De (1996b) show that the origin of the entablature zone with intense jointing in the inner part of a lava flow can be caused by a steep or near vertical nature of the isotherms developed during the later stage of cooling.
		De, Aniruddha (1994 b) Basalts from Saya de Malha Bank and the Deccan Traps: Their relationship in the Light of Plate Tectonics: Symposium on Mantle Dynamics and its Relation to Earthquake and Volcanism: Nat.
		De, Aniruddha (1989b) Origin of Mica Pegmatites of Bihar, India and the role of subjacent CO2 enriched crust in their generation: (jointly with B.P.Bhattacharyya), 28th International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C., Abstracts, P-I, 149.
	personal.vsnl.com /ade/recent.html (847 words)

	Fishery Bulletin: The effect of intensive line fishing on the virgin biomass of a tropical deepwater snapper, the ...
		The initial virgin biomass of P. filamentosus available to a line fishery at the North Western promontory of Saya de Malha Bank was estimated at 72.6 t through application of the Leslie model to daily catch and effort data.
		Biomass densities of 2364 kg/[km.sup.2] and 1206 kg/km were obtained by applying the initial biomass estimates to the surface area and to the length of the dropoff that was fished.
		Saya de Malha Bank is located on the Mascarene Plateau in the southwest Indian Ocean (Fig.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FDG/is_2_101/ai_102341372 (1493 words)

	Mascarene Plateau - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The southern part of the plateau, including the Saya de Malha Bank, Nazareth Bank, the Cargados Carajos Shoals (Saint Brandon), and the mountainous islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues, were formed by the Réunion hotspot.
		The banks and shoals were once volcanic islands much like Mauritius and Réunion, which have now sunk or eroded to below sea level, or, in the case of the Cargados Carajos, to low coral islands.
		Mauritius formed 8-10 million years ago, and Rodrigues and Réunion beginning two million years ago; Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion is one of the most active volcanoes in the world.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Mascarene_Plateau (393 words)

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		Its core is granite, with a mantle of basalt and limestone and it extends west along the Amirantes Ridge that divides the Somalia and Mascarene plates.
		The Saya de Malha bank was formed, about 35 million years ago and later the Nazareth bank and Cargados Carajos Shoals (Saint Brandon).
		The limestone banks found on the plateau were once coral reefs, indicating that the Mascarene Plateau once formed an archipelago of islands much bigger then Mauritius or Réunion today.
	www.billbrouard.com /mascarene.htm (662 words)

	Saya De Malha Bathymetric Survey Report
		The Lighthouse Foundation in Hamburg, Germany, granted SUN and SEA e.V., Germany, funds for an exploratory expedition to Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean, for March 2002.
		The Saya de Malha Banks are one of the least known shallow marine ecosystems in the world.
		Because Saya de Malha is the largest shallow tropical marine ecosystem in the world that lies mainly in International Waters outside of all territorial jurisdiction, they are in strong need of protection, which will require establishment of an unprecedented International Biosphere Reserve, the first of its kind.
	globalcoral.org /Saya%20De%20Malha%20Bathymetric%20Survey%20Report.htm (686 words)

	SWIOP/WP/52 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEMINAR ON THE MANAGEMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In the case of the Saya de Malha and Nazareth Banks the annual catch at MEY is estimated as 3400 tonnes.
		The banks handline vessels operate mostly on the Saya de Malha and the Nazareth banks.
		The catch data from each of the banks tabulated in Table 5 indicate that percentage contribution of the Saya de Malha bank in the total catch was declining with a proportional increase from the Nazareth bank.
	www.fao.org /docrep/field/313229.htm (8759 words)

	National Institute of Oceanography, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Between the Chagos bank and the Saya de Malha bank which are approximately 1065 km apart, the CIR consists of relatively short (20-40 km long), right-laterally displaced segments.
		The age data of the banks (ODP Leg 115 results and exploratory drill wells SM-2 on the Saya de Malha bank and NB-1 on the Nazareth bank) reveal that by 30 Ma, the plume had trailed to the south of the Nazareth bank.
		Proximity of the bank, which was formed by the trailing Reunion hotspot, may have generated the elevated topography along the western end of the Vema fracture zone system.
	www.nio.org /past_events/interridge/interridge_posters_2_RS.jsp (1935 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Mauritius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The French controlled the island during the 18th century and renamed it Ile de France.
		Note: Mauritius also claims the Saya de Malha Bank as part of its exclusive economic zone as it falls into Mauritian Territorial Waters.
		The island of Mauritius itself is formed around a central plateau, with its highest peak in the southwest, Piton de la Riviere Noire at 828 m.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Mauritius (1460 words)

	SWIOP/WP/16 Financial feasibility study of trawling operations on saya de Malha Bank
		1.1.1 Saya de Malha Bank is roughly located between latitudes 09°20' and 12°00' South and longitudes 59°30' and 62°00' East at an average distance of 600 miles from Port Louis (Annex 1).
		Saya de Malha Bank has a surface of about 47,000 Km sq inside the 200 m isobath.
		In short, it shows that, under certain conditions, the exploitation of Saya de Malha Bank with trawlers supplying fish to the Mauritian market could be a financially sound activity, with Financial Internal Rates of Return (FIRR) on total Investment ranging from 28 to 43%, on the basis of assumed catches of 500 and 600 kg/hour.
	www.fao.org /docrep/field/279539.htm (5375 words)

	SWIOP/WP/28 MARINE RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS IN MAURITIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The main exploited fishing grounds are the lagoons and off-lagoon areas of Mauritius and Rodrigues and the hanks of St. Brandon, Nazareth, Saya de Malha and the Chagos Archipelago.
		The landings from the banks fishery was 2,800 tonnes In 1984 and has shown considerable variation from 1,700 to 3,900 tonnes, largely as a function of the amount of effort engaged.
		The banks fisheries presently involve about 9 to 12 vessels based from Mauritius and landing 2,828 tonnes (wet weight In 1984.) Nearly 47 percent of the catch Is from the Nazareth Bank and 35 percent from the Saya de Malha Bank.
	www.fao.org /docrep/field/279553.htm (6104 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nazareth Bank
		It lies about 1040 km east of northern Madagascar, 140 km northesat of the Cargados Carajos shoals (a small and remote dependency of Mauritius), the closest piece of land, and 280 km south of Saya de Malha Bank.
		The center of the bank is at 14°30'S, 060°40'E. Its extent is about 176 km north-south and up to 87 km east-west, with an area of about 11 000 km
		The bank is considered belonging to Mauritius (e.g.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nazareth-Bank (237 words)

	Dispersal of the Genus Phelsuma in the Mascarenes
		The first of these islands (Saya de Malha) was formed about 35 Ma and was probably never submerged until the last ice age 18.000 years ago.
		This process started 64 Ma, after the separation of the Mascarene Plateau and India, about 35 Ma the Saya de Malha bank was formed, later the Nazareth bank and the Cargados Carajos Shoals (Saint Brandon).
		The young age of Mauritius does not suspect this, meaning that the ancestor of the Mascarene forms probably used the islands of the Nazareth bank and the Cargados Carajos Shoals as stepping stones to colonize in a later stage Mauritius.
	www.phelsumania.com /public/articles/biogeography_dispersal_mascarenes.html (981 words)

	Micronation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Northern part of Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean, far from the territorial waters of any nation, a steel structure has been anchored at a depth of 11 meters to foster the growth of an artificial coral island, to be called Autopia, which is intended to be a new micronation.
		The best known modern example, the Dominion of Melchizedek, is known for the banks it licensed that were linked to fraudulent banking activities [3], and for the involvement by one of its founders in the attempted secession of the Fijian island of Rotuma.
		New Utopia has claimed for a number of years to be on the verge of commencing construction of an artificial island territory located approximately midway between Honduras and Cuba, however the selected location continues to remain resolutely submerged by the waters of the Caribbean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Micronation (4092 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Saya de Malha bank lies on the Masacarene Plateau, or Ridge - a spectacular submerged volcanic feature in the western Indian Ocean.
		The Saya de Malha exploration and coral ark construction expedition 2002 will be on the North Bank of the Mascarene Plateau, about 370 nautical miles from Victoria in the Seychelles.
		"We encountered a unique metereological phenomenon on the North Bank: the sea was flatter than a mirror, a cloudless night sky, and the stars were so brilliantly reflected by the sea surface that one was deceived in thinking one saw the sky there.
	www.grainofsand.org.uk /whereis.php (383 words)

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		She is the only member of this expedition to have been to Saya with Tom and Wolf on their first trip in 1997.
		Saya de Malha (the main southern bank and the northern bank which is sometimes called the Ritchie Bank) does not seem to be mapped in great detail in these studies.
		The Shoals Report also includes a summary of a paper on Benthic [seafloor] Habitats of the Saya de Malha Bank by Annelise Hagan, of the Coastal Research Unit at Cambridge University and Jan Robinson of the Shoals Programme.
	www.grainofsand.org.uk /bulletin6.php (1014 words)

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		An appreciable proportion of samples from Saya de Malha bank was accounted for by the larvae of shallow-water species while the larvae of deepwater benthopelagic fishes were rare.
		Over the Saya de Malha Bank, a significant portion of the catch consisted of larval shallow-water fish in addition to larval mesopelagic fish; larvae of deep-water benthopelagic fish were rare.
		The distribution of fish and the variability of the species composition on different banks and guyots is determined by association of different species with particular water masses differing in abiotic and feeding conditions and separated horizontally by frontal zones and vertically by high gradient hydrological divides.
	seamounts.sdsc.edu /SMRefAbstract.txt (17224 words)

	SOME RESULTS OF THE STUDY ON SEXUAL MATURITY OF Lethrinus mahsena FROM SAYA DE MALHA BANK
		mahsena commonly known as the berri fish is the most important species caught from the waters of Saya de Malha and contributes to some 85% of the total catch.
		Arrangements were made with a bank fishing company to bring ungutted specimens caught on Saya de Malha (South) bank during the fishing trips of its vessel for the period October 1996 to January 1998.
		In 1998, the length at first capture of fish caught on Saya de Malha (South) was 26.7cm.
	ncb.intnet.mu /moa/farc/amas99/s62.htm (1133 words)

	ISAF - Oryx Quest 2005
		Beyond the Cargados shoals lies the Saya de Malha bank, another area of shallow water, and with the centre of the cyclone still north of their present position they are going to get even closer to the deadly centre of the storm.
		They have to avoid the Cargados shoals at all costs; the Saya de Malha bank is shallow, but not shoal.
		They could pass over the bank, but it will not be pleasant as the seas will become short and steep in the shallow water and potentially very dangerous.
	www.sailing.org /?ID=j67FhyuBC (984 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mauritius
		In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital â€” although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government.
		The arms of Port Louis Port Louis banking district, and the main avenue leading to the Government House (seen in the background) Port Louis (local pronunciation is PAULWEE) is the capital of Mauritius.
		Navinchandra Ramgoolam (born July 13, 1947) was a former prime minister of the Republic of Mauritius (from 1995-2000).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mauritius (973 words)

	Marine Resources Of Mauritius
		These are the Saya de Malha and Nazareth Banks, the St Brandon group of islands and the Chagos Archipelago.
		The State of the Environment report 1991 states that the total annual allowable catch on the Saya de Malha bank had been established to be about 1900 tonnes.
		This alone indicates that over fishing on the banks has occurred and measures must be taken to prevent collapse of the fishing stock in the future.
	www.intnet.mu /iels/marine_mau.htm (1364 words)

	IBSS NASU. S.Tsarin Ecological complexes of Myctophidae in the sound scattering layers in the Equatorial province of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Water areas adjoining to Centurion and Spicers banks differed to some extent by the fauna of the SSL from other regions of distribution of the equatorial faunistic complex, which was apparently caused by the topography of the risings.
		The region of the Saya de Malha Bank should be discussed separately.
		The difference between the faunas of the southern Arabian and equatorial complexes could possibly be connected with the position of the northern Tropical Front, and the somewhat insulated state of the southeast complex was connected with position of the Monsoon Current running slightly to the North of it.
	www.ibss.iuf.net /people/tsarin/indocean.html (2285 words)

	Saya de Malha
		Intensive deep-sea fishing, crude oil explorations and whale hunting in particular have already entered the public awareness, and the use of the high seas as a CO2 dump or raw material storage is being heatedly discussed.
		The Saya de Malha Bank is a unique geological formation comprising a large neritic area in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
		The aim of a research trip by the Sun & Sea Association was to conduct a scientific/environmental inventory of the Saya de Malha Bank and to classify the area in more detail with regard to the degree of endangerment and the international protection status required.
	www.lighthouse-foundation.org /lighthouse-foundation.org/eng/projects/artikel00350eng.html (362 words)

	Definition of Atoll - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		If Saya de Malha Bank were to be recognized as a wholly submerged atoll structure, it would be the world's largest, at 40,000 km².
		Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, which is sometimes listed as the largest atoll of the world (largest in the Pacific), measures only 846 km², by contrast.
		If the Caicos Islands are to be considered a huge coral atoll, with the Caicos Bank as a lagoon, this complex would be the the largest atoll in land area (460.2 km²) and second largest in total area (lagoon size roughly 3700 km²).
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Atoll (1153 words)

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