The last dodo was killed in 1681 on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.

最后一只渡渡鸟于 1681 年在印度洋的毛里求斯岛上被杀。

Geochemists at Columbia University found a lode of quartzite, a metamorphic rock formed from sandstone, on the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan.

哥伦比亚大学的地球化学家在印度洋昂儒昂岛上发现了一个石英岩矿脉，石英岩是由砂岩形成的变质岩。

Within a couple of decades of switching to a Western-type diet, people living on Pacific and Indian ocean islands, experienced a massive surge in so-called diseases of civilization like diabetes and cancer.

在转向西式饮食的几十年内，生活在太平洋和印度洋岛屿上的人们经历了糖尿病和癌症等所谓文明疾病的大规模激增。

It was also heard on the Indian Ocean island of Rodrigues 4, 800 kilometers away, whose residents reported what they believed to be cannon fire.

这个声音甚至在4800公里开外的印度洋罗德里格斯岛也还能听到，那里的居民还以为是炮火声。

French officials are examining part of an aircraft washed up on an Indian Ocean island to find out whether it comes from a missing Malaysian plane.

法国官方正在调查被冲到印度洋岛屿上的一片飞机部位，看它是否来自失踪的马航飞机。

But a science mission about to get underway is going to go looking for more coelacanth in the deep waters off the Indian Ocean islands called the Seychelles.

但是，一项即将开始的科学任务将在印度洋岛屿的深水中寻找更多的腔棘鱼，该岛为塞舌尔群岛。

French transport officials are investigating a piece of aircraft wreckage washed up on the Indian Ocean island de la Reunion to see if it comes from a missing Malaysian airliner.

法国交通官员正在调查被冲到印度洋留尼旺岛上的一片飞机残骸，看它是否属于失踪的马航飞机上的部件。

The French authorities will fly a piece of aircraft debris from an Indian Ocean island to France later today where it will be examined to see if it comes from a missing Malaysian airliner.

法国当局称今天晚些时候将用飞机把印度洋岛屿上发现的一片飞机残骸运送到法国，以研究它是否来自失踪的马航飞机。

The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has confirmed that a piece of aircraft debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared in March, 2014.

马来西亚总理纳吉布·拉扎克证实，印度洋留尼旺岛上发现的飞机残骸属于失踪的马航飞机MH370，这架飞机是2014年3月失踪的。