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  Andaman Nicobar Islands
Floating in splendid isolation, East of the Indian mainland is the archipelago of the 572 emerald Islands, isles and rocks known as Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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  Encyclopedia: Andaman Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Andaman Islands form a single administrative district within the Union Territory, the Andaman district (the Nicobar district was separated and established as a new district in 1974).
The population of the Andamans was 314,084 in 2001.
The Andamans may have been linked to Myanmar by a land bridge during the ice ages, and it is possible that the ancestors of the Andamanese reached the islands without crossing the sea.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Andaman-Islands   (7001 words)

  
 Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India.
It is comprised of two island groups -the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands - which separate the Andaman Sea to the east from the Indian Ocean.
These two groups are separated by the 10° N parallel, the Andamans lying to the north of this latitude, and the Nicobars to the south.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands   (1086 words)

  
 Andaman Islands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Andamans thus were once of great importance for monitoring weather in the region for the benefit of the Indian mainland and ships at sea in the Indian Ocean.
In 1788-1789 the government of Bengal sought to establish in the Andamans a penal colony, associated with a harbour of refuge.
The Andamans may have been linked to Myanmar by a land bridge during the (Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface) ice ages, and it is possible that the ancestors of the Andamanese reached the islands without crossing the sea.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/andaman_islands.htm   (4316 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India (Indian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Andaman and Nicobar Islands[an´dumun, nik´ObAr] Pronunciation Key, union territory (2001 provisional pop.
A.D., the Andamans, consisting of more than 200 islands, were the site of a British penal colony from 1858 to 1945.
The Nicobars, which comprise 19 small islands, are separated from the Andamans by a channel that is 90 mi (145 km) wide.
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 Read about Andaman Islands at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Andaman Islands and learn about Andaman Islands here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The population of the Andamans was 314,239 in 2001.
west of the Andamans are the dangerous Western Banks and Dalrymple Bank, rising to within a few fathoms of the surface of the sea and forming, with the two Sentinel Islands, the tops of a line of submarine hills parallel to the Andamans.
The earliest European notice of the Andaman Islanders is in a remarkable collection of early Arab notes on India and China from the year 851 which influenced the view of this people until modern times.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Andaman_Islands   (4042 words)

  
 The Andaman Islanders
The Andaman islanders are none the less representing the human culture and way of living most common in the time line of homo sapiens.
Migration of the tribes on the Andamans has been by crossing the sea using the islands as stepping stones, but in due time their knowledge confined to the sea was lost.
For this purpose Great Andamans were used as informants and supporters by the British, a crucial error intensifying the hostile attitude towards the British as well as the inherent rivalry towards the Great Andamanese.
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 Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India lies in the Bay of Bengal.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands lie close to the Arakanmayo mountain range of Burma which lies to the sides of Sumatra of Indonesia.
Andaman is a developing land, with people being cultured and literate.
www.andaman.org.in   (587 words)

  
 Tsunami News for Andaman, Indian
The death toll in the Andaman and Nicabar isles was 832 while the number...
Thousands are leaving the Andaman and Nicobar islands in panic as they feel the place is no longer safe for living in the post-tsunami scenario even as the...
The indigenous inhabitants of Andaman and Nicobar islands may not be able to see sense in the tragedy that struck them in the guise of the tsunami (Little, Big...
danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2004/Andaman.html   (2277 words)

  
 National Institute of Amateur Radio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands remained the abode of the Negritos and the Mongoloids respectively, who occupied the Islands for centuries.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a veritable Garden of Eden and a naturalist's heaven.
The Andaman and Nicobar are a group of picturesque Islands, big and small, inhabited and uninhabited, a total of 572 islands, islets and rocks lying in the South Eastern Part of the Bay of Bengal.They lie along an arc in long and narrow broken chain, approximately North-South over a distance nearly 800 kms.
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 History of Andaman Cellular Jail
The Andamans are a chain of 184 odd islands in the Andaman sea at approx 1100 Kms to the south of Kolkata.
The revolutionaries, who survived, were exiled for life to the Andamans so that their connection with their families and their country would be severed and their countrymen would forget them forever.
The British reoccupied the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and abolished the Penal Settlement in 1945.
www.andamancellularjail.org /History.htm   (2227 words)

  
 Ministry of Tourism, Government of India Celebrates Visit India Year 1999-2000 : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, home to a number of aboriginal tribes, lie in the Bay of Bengal, approximately 1,220 km south east of the coast of West Bengal and 1,190 km east of Chennai.
The two groups of islands, Andaman and Nicobar, are separated by a deep ten degree channel.
The capital of this Union Territory is Port Blair, on the Andaman Islands.
www.tourisminindia.com /indiainfo/states/andamannicobar   (337 words)

  
 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Andaman Islands rain forests (IM0101)
North Andaman lies 285 km south of Myanmar (a few smaller islands are closer), and the 150-km-wide Ten Degree Channel separates the Andamans from the Nicobars.
The Andamans are warm tropical, with temperatures ranging from 22 to 30(C and 3,000-3,800 mm annual average rainfall.
The Andamans are geologically part of long island arch that runs from Arakan Yoma in Myanmar to the Mentawai Islands off Sumatra and include the Nicobar Islands Rain Forests [IM0133] and many underwater sea mounts.
www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0101_full.html   (1143 words)

  
 Andaman Islands, India  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
The three principal islands are North Andaman, Middle Andaman, and South Andaman.
To the east of the island group is a cluster of small islands known collectively as the Ritchie’s Archipelago; to the south is Little Andaman.
The Andamans are generally hilly and are heavily forested.
www.galenfrysinger.com /andaman_islands.htm   (246 words)

  
 Andaman workshop final report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
However, the vigorous tidal mixing of the Andaman Sea may be a major factor controlling the river plume pattern, and possibility the general circulation.
The nature of their behavior at the shelf break, the ratio of reflection to transmission onto the shelf is not known, and is of fundamental importance to studies of ocean mixing.
The strong tidal and internal wave induced mixing processes at work in the Andaman Sea may impose a signature on the Bay of Bengal stratification via the ocean channel links or by atmospheric telecommunication and have significant influence on the SST of the Bay of Bengal and on the Asian monsoon.
www.ldeo.columbia.edu /res/fac/physocean/Andaman/andaman_report_final_ed.html   (8126 words)

  
 Andaman Beaches, Beaches of Andaman, Andaman Beach Tours, Beach Tourism in Andaman, Andaman Beach Travel
The coastal waters of surrounding Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the abode of India.
Andaman Islands is a sensitive area because of security reasons and special permits are required to enter these islands.
Probably the most important fact that one has to bear in mind is that the Andaman Islands (and their southern cousins, the Nicobar Islands) are not coral islands.
touristplacesinindia.com /beaches/india/andaman-beaches   (784 words)

  
 Andaman Islands - Biocrawler definition:Andaman Islands - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands form separate administrative districts within the Union Territory.
They are located 950 km from the mouth of the Hooghly River, 193 km from Cape Negrais in Myanmar, the nearest point of the mainland, and 547 km from the northern extremity of Sumatra.
The indigenous Andamanese spoke several related languages, the Andamanese languages, a distinct language family unrelated to languages found outside the islands.
www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Andaman_Islands   (4285 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Andaman coral 'hit by tsunami'
He said the "Andaman coral reefs are very rich in spread and diversity, second only to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia".
The Andaman reefs are next to the centre of distribution of the Indo-West Pacific fauna located in and around the Indonesian islands.
The Andaman state level wildlife board and environment protection council seeks the advice of the Zoological Survey to protect the coral reefs.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4148235.stm   (705 words)

  
 Andaman & Nicobar Islands India
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 Portal - Andaman and Nicobar Islands
A large archepilago in the Indian Ocean, the Andaman and Nicobar islands,consists of 306 islands, 206 rocks and rocky outcrops.
They were a virile and strongly built people who were highly suspicious of outsiders, especially the kind that cut down the forests, disturb their tribal life and the peace of the islands.
The population on the South Andaman were the first to come in contact with the colonial authority in the penal settlements founded in 1858.
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 andaman and nicobar islands map and map of andaman and nicobar islands information page
It's recorded that Marco Polo was the first official visitor to the beautiful Andaman and Nicobar islands, a tropical archipelago of 572 islands.
Relative Location The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are located in both the eastern and northern hemispheres.
They're positioned in the Indian Ocean, and bordered by the Andaman Sea and the southern reaches of the Bay of Bengal, between India and Burma (Myanmar).
www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/asia/andaman.htm   (629 words)

  
 Search Results for andaman - Encyclopædia Britannica
The Andamans are one of the two major groups of islands in the...
The union territory of Lakshadweep is a group of small coral atolls in the Arabian Sea to the west of the Malabar Coast.
The terrain of the Andamans is rough, with hills enclosing narrow longitudinal valleys.
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 Sumatra Andaman earthquake
A great shallow foci earthquake of magnitude 9.0 occurred with epicentre (3.298° N, 95.779° E) close to the western boundary of northern Sumatra on 26th December (00:58:50 UTC), 2004 [source: USGS] at a focal depth of 30 km.
Due to this earthquake massive tsunami was generated that caused extensive destruction all along the east coast of India and the Andaman- Nicobar islands.
Apart from the tsunami generated casualties, it is also likely that direct earthquake induced damages (aftershocks) has also affected the Andaman and Nicobar group of islands.
www.gsi.gov.in /suma_eq.htm   (216 words)

  
 Andaman Nicobar Islands, India
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The Andaman and Nicobar Islands comprise around 572 islands formed by a submarine mountain range, which separates the Bay of Bengal from the Andaman Sea.
Paddy is the main food crop and is mostly cultivated in the Andaman group of islands, whereas coconut and areca nut are the main cash crops of the Nicobar group of islands.
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 Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Interview: Janaki Kremmer discusses the situation on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal
Absence of hemoglobinopathies and G6PD deficiency among the Jarawas, a primitive negretoid tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.(Letter to Editor)
Tsunami damage in Hut Bay, India on the coast of Little Andaman, an island in India's tropical Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, February 2005.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/AndamanN1.asp   (760 words)

  
 "Pygmy Negritos of the Andaman Islands - an interview with George Weber of the Andaman Association" by Steve ...
George H. Weber, a Swiss businessman and independent scholar, is the founder of the Andaman Association and creator of the encyclopedic andaman.org Web site, which is the leading source for information on these almost unknown but fascinating people.
Thanks to grossly incompetent government policies in the past, you are likely to meet them on the Andaman trunk road where they will hijack your bus and not be satisfied with a handshake, but instead will demand goodies -- or else.
When my wife and I were in the Andamans in 1995, we were offered the opportunity to visit a Jarawa camp in the jungle and shake hands with them for $200.
www.isteve.com /Andamanese.htm   (2019 words)

  
 Beaches - Andaman Nicobar Island
Andaman waters are suitable for adventure water sports like scuba diving, skiing, sailing, para sailing, wind surfing, snorkeling etc. Trekking through the dense evergreen forests and island camping in beach front forests are the other adventure activities.
Camps are just the right choice for the nature-lovers who wish to enjoy the sun, sea and the pristine beauty of nature by spending quiet holidays right on the beach.
The coastal waters of surrounding Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the abode of India’s richest coral reef ecosystem, comparable to any tropical rain forest in productivity and diversity.
www.indiatravelite.com /Beaches/andamansports.htm   (296 words)

  
 South Andaman 20th February-6th March 2002
The Andaman were used as a dumping ground for Bangladeshi and Sri Lanka refugees and with the law allowing squatters rights to reclaimed forest land the effect has been disastrous for the environment.
The best place for Andaman Cuckoo Dove is supposed to be the path up from the aqueduct, which crosses the road at Panighat.
In the morning it was a beautiful spot at the pier, with a view overlooking the straight to Rutland Island and no one around but it looked like there were plans to do something as the road was being overhauled (possibly paved) right up to the pier.
www.princeton.edu /~vivekt/trips/Andaman-02.htm   (5621 words)

  
 Andaman Club Hotel & Casino - Ranong
I will be using Andaman Club's own shuttle bus next time, give them a call and they pickup you with a comfortable minibus/van for only 100 baht, which I learned later.
The staff at the Andaman Club's own departure pier is very service minded and the immigration desk always have staff on duty to take care of your passport and stamps.
You reach Andaman Club by jet boat which take about 20 minutes, you pay 360 baht (r/t) for the jet boat when you enter the island.
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