As a Brit I dont consider that a serious question. There is an Ocean we know as the Indian Ocean but it isnt actually an ocean it is a body of water south of India.
I first read the name as a kid in a book about the Battle of the River Plate and the Graf Spee which went there
German Raiders in the Indian Ocean - Pacific Eagles
Through 1940 and 1941, several German surface raiders operated in the Indian Ocean where they were up against Allied warships attempting to hunt them down.
German merchant raiders were even more active in the Indian Ocean than they were in the Pacific. The first Kriegsmarine surface vessels to reach the Indian Ocean was the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, which made a brief foray into the Indian Ocean at the end of October 1939. The Graf Spee made a short detour during her cruise in the South Atlantic, intending to confuse the British as to her plans. She had little success at this stage of her career, finding and sinking the tanker Africa Shell, but finding little else worthy of her 11-inch main guns. After spending two weeks in the Indian Ocean she returned to the Atlantic, where she eventually met her fate after the Battle of the River Plate.
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