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T1 Governance of the South West Indian Ocean Seamounts
A2 Galletti, Florence
A2 Marsac, Francis
A2 Ternon, Jean-François
K1 Indian Ocean region
K1 marine resource
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/25920
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/25920
NO Seamounts are mostly located on mid-oceanic rifts or intra-plate hot spots. There ~1000 large seamounts in South West Indian Ocean, of which half are listed within EEZs. Because of their volcanic origin, seamounts contain mineral resources. Their extraction cost remains prohibitive to be profitable (but the situation could change in the coming decades).
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 16, 2026