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  Encyclopedia: Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andaman district is a District of India, one of two districts in the Indian Union Territory (UT) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Nicobar district is a District of India, one of two districts in the Indian Union Territory (UT) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Car Nicobar (known as Malacca or Pu in the local language) is the northernmost of the Nicobar Islands, which in turn are the southern part of the Indian union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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 Nicobar Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nicobars are located southeast of the Indian subcontinent, separated by the Bay of Bengal by about 1,300 km, and are separated from the Andaman Islands to the north by the 150 km wide Ten Degree Channel and are 189 km from the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southeast.
The Andaman and Nicobar islands separate the Bay of Bengal from the Andaman Sea.
The capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands territory is Port Blair on South Andaman.
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 Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
In the Andaman Islands, the various Andamanese peoples maintained their separated existence through the vast majority of this time, diversifying into distinct linguistic, cultural and territorial groups.
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 Andaman,Andaman Nicobar Islands,Andaman and Nicobar Islands,The Emerald Islands
Floating in splendid isolation, east of the Indian mainland is the archipelago of 572 emerald islands, islets and rocks known as Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The tribes of the Andaman group of islands are the great Andamanese, Onges, Jarawas and Sentinalese; all of Negrito origin, while the tribes of Nicobars, the Nicobarese and Shompens, both of Mongoloid stock.
Andaman and Nicobar islands have recently been recognized as a world-class Eco-friendly tourist destination and these islands have something very special to offer to the tourists.
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 Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The history of the Andaman and Nicobar islands is representative of the medieval to modern history of India: a soul-stirring saga of invasions, conquests, state-sponsored terror -- and that undying spirit of freedom.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands -- a grim reminder of the horrific aspects of the British rule of India -- are a group of 321 tropical islands in the Bay of Bengal, 1,200km east of the Indian mainland.
The area of the Andamans is 6,408 sq km and that of the Nicobars is about 1,645 sq km.
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 Beaches - Andaman Nicobar Island
The string of 300 islands that comprises the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India lies in the middle of the Bay of Bengal.
The Islands are in two groups: the Andamans and the Nicobar, with a ten degree channel separating the two.
The Nicobar- Islands are situated to the South of the Andamans.
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 National Institute of Amateur Radio
In the Second Century, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were located in the maps prepared by the great Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, Claudius Ptolemaeus, which possibly is the earliest reference to these islands.
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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 Conserving the Biodiversity in Andaman and Nicobar Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (ANI) are an archipelago comprising of 306 islands stretching out as an arc in the Bay of Bengal, off the eastern coast of the Indian sub — continent.
The fauna and flora of Andaman are closely related to that of Burma and the fauna-flora of Nicobar are related to that of Sumatra.
The Andaman teal populations were also in decline due to the loss of wetland habitat and due to hunting by the surrounding villagers.
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Andaman and Nicobar, the Emerald Islands, consisting of two island group lies east of the mainland between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.
The archipelago of 572 emerald islands, islets and rocks known as the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The Andamans are separated from the Nicobars to the south by the Ten Degree Channel, which is 145 km (90mi) wide.
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 ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS
The Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands is known throughout the country as 'Kalapani' because of their having been a penal settlement under the British Rule.
The islands in the Nicobar group are surrounded by coral reef and shallow seas.
In Little Nicobar and Great Nicobar in the Nicobar group, the land surface is very irregular, cut up by steep hills and valleys.
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 The Hindu :Sunday, August 15, 2004
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands' Lieutenant-Governor, Ramchandra Ganesh Kapse, while identifying tourism as one of the focal points of development of the Islands, stresses that the local people, especially youth, should enjoy the fruits of...
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, popularly called Emerald Islands, float in splendid isolation and lie east of the Indian mainland.
The popular impression is that the history of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands begins with the arrival of the British.
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 1Up India > India > Andaman & Nicobar Islands > All the information about Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands with its administrative headquarters at Port Blair, appears in history as old as the period of Lord Rama.
Andaman & Nicobar Islands is a Union Territory, stretched over an area of more than 700 Kms.
The tribes of, the Andaman group of islands are the Great Andamanese, Onges, Jarawas, and Sentinatese, all of Negrito origin, while the tribes of Nicobars are the Nicobarese and Shompens, both of Mongoloid stock.
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 Andaman & Nicobar, Island Tours& Travel, Andman, Andaman and Nicobar India, Tour Packages for Andaman and Nicobar, ...
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.
Little is known historically about Andaman and Nicobar, a cluster of around 572 islands of which less than 50 are populated, stretching from the southern tip of Burma all the way down south till Sumatra in Indonesia.
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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 silversand Beach Resort, andaman, beach resort in andaman, india, andaman scuba diving, andaman corals view, andaman ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Andaman and Nicobar islands and beaches of Andaman and Nicobar Islands offers a breath taking underwater view of coral and marine life and scuba diving which is the best in India.
Andaman Islands are an ideal place for snorkeling, sea bathing and basking on the sun kissed beach with scuba diving, fishing and island Camping in the untouched beaches of Andaman.
Andaman and Nicobar islands are fringed with coconut palm beaches, covered with tropical jungle and flat stretches of crescent shaped beaches far better than any other beaches in India.
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 Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Floating in splendid isolation, cast of the Indian mainland is the archipelago of 572 emerald islands, islets and rocks known as Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Mythologicaly, the name Andaman was presumed to be derived from Hanuman, who was known to the Malays as Handuman.
Megapode, Swiftlet, Hornbill and Nicobar Pigeon are some of the specialties of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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 Andaman & Nicobar Islands India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Tsunami News for Andaman, Indian
Nicobar group of islands, were either submerged or destroyed by the tsunami.
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...
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 India Travelogue Destinations Travel Guide India: Andaman & Nicobar Islands India, Travel Andamans India, Trip Planning ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands comes under the rule of the central Government of India.
The two groups of islands, Andaman and Nicobar, are separated by a deep ten degree channel.
he capital of this Union Territory is Port Blair, on the Andaman Islands, which is the landing and departure point for boat excursions in the Andamans and an ideal base for touring the archipelago of 321 islands.
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 Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
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 Indax - India Web Site- Union Territories in India - Andaman Nicobar Islands
On South Andaman, the most heavily populated island, is Port Blair which is the capitol and the only large town in the entire archipelago.
The Andaman and Nicobar islands are accessible by air and sea from both Chennai and Calcutta, with all visitors entering at Port Blair.
On the Andaman Islands to the north, the tribal groups are darker skinned.
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 Tourism of India - States of India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The Andaman group of islands consists of North Andaman, Middle Andaman, South Andaman, Little Andaman, and many smaller islands, situated in the Bay of Bengal, 1000 km off the east coast of India.
Until the beginnings of colonial rule, the Andamans were populated mainly by Andamanese, indigenous tribes of Negrito origin who practice food-gathering, hunting, honey-collecting and fishing, and are the only tribe on the islands who freely accept contact with the outside world.
However, the majority of the 300,000 people on the Andamans are mainlanders or their descendants who live in and around the capital of Port Blair on South Andaman.
www.tourismofindia.com /sts/standaman.htm   (376 words)

  
 Indigenous Tribes on India's Andaman Islands Survive Tsunami Disaster
India's remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands bore the full brunt of the tsunami, generated by the massive Asian earthquake.
On Car Nicobar, one of the more heavily populated of the 500 islands, as many as 10,000 people are missing, and aid groups say the death toll could rise.
The Andaman and Nicobar territories are made up of more than 500 islands, located some 14 hundred kilometers southeast of India's mainland.
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 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.
Comprising the Andaman Islands (2,508 sq mi/6,496 sq km) in the south and the Nicobar Islands (707 sq mi/1,831 sq km) in the north, the territory chiefly exports tropical products and lumber.
A.D., the Andamans, consisting of more than 200 islands, were the site of a British penal colony from 1858 to 1945.
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 India Daily — During Tsunami Remote Viewing primitive tribes in Andaman Nicobar Islands of India moved to higher ...
Andaman and Nicobar Administration under the Government of India have rehabilitated Great Andamanese in Strait Island and Onges in Dugong Creek and South Bay of Little Andaman Island.
Though the tribals of Andaman islands were not much affected, there has been total devastation in car Nicobar islands mostly inhabited by the modern Nicobarese, Takhar, who undertook an aerial and ground survey of tsunami affected areas along the eastern coast, told the reporters.
Interestingly, in South and South east Asia which includes Andaman and Nicobar islands, it is now confirmed that animal bodies are not found because most of them moved to higher grounds days before the Tsunami came.
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 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 capital of this Union Territory is Port Blair, on the Andaman Islands.
In the Nicobars, the only aboriginals are the Shompens, who are averse to any contact with the outside world.
www.tourisminindia.com /indiainfo/states/andamannicobar   (337 words)

  
 Andaman and Nicobar Islands --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The peaks of a submerged mountain range, the islands of the Andamans and the Nicobars form an arc 620 miles (1,000 km) long between Myanmar (Burma) and the Indonesian island of Sumatra that constitutes the boundary between the southeastern Bay of Bengal (west) and the...
Calcareous clays and oozes are found near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and atop the Ninetyeast Ridge.
Port Blair, on South Andaman Island; timber, copra, fish, turtles; from 1858 Port Blair was headquarters for India's convict settlement (abolished 1945); pop.
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 BBC NEWS | South Asia | Tsunami folklore 'saved islanders'
The Onge tribe, for example, have lived on Little Andaman for between 30,000 and 50,000 years and, though they are on the verge of extinction, almost all of the 100 or so people left seem to have survived the 26 December quake and the devastating waves which followed.
Samir Acharya, convenor of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology (Sane), said the aboriginals have a collective memory of earthquakes and tsunamis so they knew to move to higher ground.
Andaman health expert Tilak Bera, an Indian navy doctor with close knowledge of the aboriginals, said: "They can cope with tsunamis but they will find it difficult to cope with disease that the settlers have brought to the islands.
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 BWNS: Jubilee becomes major talking point
PORT BLAIR, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 7 January 2004 (BWNS) -- Celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Faith here became the talk of the islands as local dignitaries attended special events, and the media provided extensive coverage.
Afshin from Panchgani in India, Mehrzad Akhtarkhavari, secretary of the Spiritual Assembly of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Mr.
The first Spiritual Assembly of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with, at center, Madame Ruhiyyih Rabbani, a Hand of the Cause, and the widow of Shoghi Effendi.
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