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The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world ' s oceanic divisions , covering ( approximately 20 % of the water on the Earth ' s surface ). It is bounded by Asia on the north , on the west by Africa , on the east by Australia , and on the south by the Southern Ocean or , depending on definition , by Antarctica . It is named after the country of India . The Indian Ocean is known as " Ratnkara ", "" the mine of gems "" in ancient ___MASK71___ literature , and as " Hind Mahsgar ", "" the great Indian sea "", in Hindi . David Bras Francisco ( 22 February 1841 -- 29 April 1888 ) was a member of the La Grange expedition of 1864 , which searched for three men missing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia . Born in Western Australia on 22 February 1841 , Francisco left Western Australia in February 1852 on the Dido , but returned in March 1861 on the Dolphin . He worked as an auctioneer and estate agent in Fremantle . In 1864 , Francisco travelled to the north west of Western Australia on the Clarence Packet . The primary charter of the Clarence Packet was to aid in the execution of the La Grange expedition in search of three missing men , Frederick Panter , James Harding and William Goldwyer . Francisco fell in with the party , and ended up a participant in the expedition . His diary remains a valuable independent record of the expedition . In 1867 , Francisco became a foundation member of the Fremantle Town Council , serving until 1875 . In 1868 he married Ellen Hillman ; they would have five children . He died in 1888 . Western Australia ( abbreviated as WA ) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west , the Great Australian Bight and Southern Ocean to the south , the Northern Territory to the north - east and South Australia to the south - east . Western Australia is Australia ' s largest state with a total land area of 2 , 529 , 875 square kilometres ( 976 , 790 sq mi ), and the second - largest country subdivision in the world  however , a significant part of it is sparsely populated . The state has about 2 . 6 million inhabitants , around 11 % of the national total . 92 % of the population lives in the south - west corner of the state . The La Grange expedition was a search expedition carried out in the vicinity of Lagrange Bay in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 1865 . Led by Maitland Brown , the expedition searched for three settlers who had failed to return from an earlier exploring expedition . The three men were eventually found dead , having been speared and clubbed to death in their sleep by Indigenous Australians . A number of Indigenous people were subsequently killed by members of the expedition in a controversial incident that is often now referred to as the " La Grange Massacre ", although the fairness of this term remains a matter of some debate . Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia , descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands ___MASK13___ to European colonisation . The earliest definite human remains found in Australia are those of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady , which have been dated at about 40 , 000 years old , although the time of arrival of the first Indigenous Australians is a matter of debate among researchers , with estimates including thermoluminescence dating to between 61 , 000 and 52 , 000 years ago , as well as a suggestion of up to 125 , 000 years ago . Maitland Brown ( 17 July 1843  8 May 1905 ) was an ___MASK23___ , politician and pastoralist in colonial Western Australia . He is best remembered as the leader of the La Grange expedition , which searched for and recovered the bodies of three white settlers murdered by Indigenous Australians , and subsequently killed a number of Indigenous people in an incident that remains controversial to this day . The Northern Territory ( abbreviated as NT ) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia . It shares borders with Western Australia to the west ( 129th meridian east ), South Australia to the south ( 26th parallel south ), and Queensland to the east ( 138th meridian east ). To the north , the territory is bordered by the Timor Sea , the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria . Despite its large area  over , making it the third largest Australian federal division  it is sparsely populated . The Northern Territory ' s population of 244 , 000 ( 2016 ) makes it the least populous of Australia ' s eight ___MASK68___ states and territories , having fewer than half as many people as Tasmania .