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  Andaman Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Andaman Islands are a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India.
The population of the Andamans was 314,239 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.
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 ANDAMAN ISLANDS - LoveToKnow Article on ANDAMAN ISLANDS
to the W. 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.
Speaking generally, the climate of the Andamans themselves may be described as normal for tropical islands of similar latitude.
Population.The Andaman Islands, so near countries that have for ages attained considerable civilization and have been the seat of great empires, and close to the track of a great commerce which has gone on at least 2000 years, are the abode of savages as low in civilization as almost any known on earth.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AN/ANDAMAN_ISLANDS.htm   (3674 words)

  
 Andaman Islands
Andaman Strait, between Middle and North islands, is at low water a fetid swampy creek, not passable by a boat.
The Andaman countenance has generally impressed Europeans at first as highly repulsive, and as African in character; but when we come to particulars, it has usually neither the exaggerated blubber-lip, nor to a like extent the prognathous profile, of the true Negro; nor has the Andamanner the Negro's large or ill-formed feet.
The Andaman colony obtained a tragical notoriety from the murder of the viceroy, the Earl of Mayo, by a Mohammedan convict, when a on a visit to the settlement, 8th February 1872.
www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/AND/andaman-islands.html   (3732 words)

  
 Andaman Islands - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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 Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands to the south form part of a range of submarine mountains, 1130 km.
Animal life is generally deficient throughout the Andamans, especially as regards mammalia, of which there are only nineteen separate species in all, twelve of these being peculiar to the islands.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /a/an/andaman_islands.html   (3993 words)

  
 Andaman Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
They are located 950 km from the mouth of the Hooghly River, 193 km from in Myanmar, the nearest point of the mainland, and 547 km from the northern extremity of Sumatra.
These are from north to south, North Andaman, Middle Andaman, South Andaman, and Rutland Island.
It is estimated that less than ten percent of the population of the Andaman Islands is indigenous Andamanese including in 2005, only 99, 250 Sentinelese, 39 Andamanese and 350 Jarawas.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Anadaman_Islands   (4224 words)

  
 Andaman,Andaman Nicobar Islands,Andaman and Nicobar Islands,The Emerald Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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.
andaman-nicobar.indiantravelportal.com   (998 words)

  
 Original-2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Whereas the existence of the Negrito population in the Andamans is reported from the second century onwards as is evidenced from sporadic literatures.
In 1931 Bonington made attempts to differentiate the Negrito of Andamans which according to him are of two types viz., (a) the coast tribe of south Andaman and all the tribes of south and middle Andaman, (b) the Onge of Little Andaman including the Jarawa of south Andaman and the Sentinelese of north Sentinel island.
The adjacent islands and half of the north Andaman was homeland of Chariar tribe, while the interior and the southern half of the coast of the north Andaman and northern extreme of the middle Andaman belonged to the Jeru tribe.
www.andaman.org /book/originals/Justin/art-justs.htm   (2491 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)

  
 Great Andaman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Great Andaman is the main archipelago of the Andaman Islands of India.
The three northern islands are the largest of the entire island group, and the islands' capital, Port Blair, also lies in the archipelago.
Great Andaman is often considered the counterpart to Little Andaman, another island in the Andamans.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Andaman   (113 words)

  
 Andaman Islands charter yacht Ilala exclusive sail, dive and diving holidays in the Andamans and the Andaman Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Andaman and Nicobar islands in the centre of the Bay of Bengal are one of the last pristine dive destinations in the world.
The departure point for your sailing and diving holiday in the Andamans aboard charter yacht Ilala is Port Blair, the administrative capital of the Andaman and Nicobar islands group.
The Andaman and Nicobar islands are Indian territory.
www.ilala.net /Andamans/andamans.htm   (326 words)

  
 Andamans
On the extreme north away from North Andaman lies Landfall Island; the Labyrinth islands are off the south-west coast of South Andaman, off the east coast of the same island lies Ritchie's Archipelago also known as Archipelago islands.
Baratang, lies between, somewhat to the east of the Middle and South Andaman, and Rutland island near the southern end of South Andaman.
The coasts of the Andamans are deeply indented forming a number of safe harbors and tidal creeks which are surrounded by mangrove swamps.
www.webindia123.com /territories/andaman/land/andamans.htm   (609 words)

  
 HindustanTimes.com
Primitive tribals of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are dying of disease and infection brought by waves of colonizers from the mainlands.
The total geographical area of Andaman and Nicobar Islands is 8249 sq km and that of Andaman alone is 6408 sq km, with a maximum width of 52 km.
The Sentineleses inhabit the north Sentinel Island in the Andaman district.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/specials/andaman/tribals.html   (1006 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 main islands in the Andamans are Land Fall Islands, Middle Andaman, South Andaman, Port Blair and Little Andaman.
The capital of this Union Territory is Port Blair, on the Andaman Islands.
www.tourisminindia.com /indiainfo/states/andamannicobar   (337 words)

  
 INDOlink - Discover India
The 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 Madras.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands were finally annexed by the British in the 19th century, and used as a penal colony for Indian freedom fighters.
Port Blair, which is the landing and departure point for boat excursions in the Andamans, is an ideal base for touring the archipelago of 321 islands.
www.indolink.com /DiscoverIndia/Andaman/andaman.html   (778 words)

  
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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)

  
 Andaman Nicobar Tourism : : Know Andaman > Indigeous Tribes
They are once the largest in population among the various tribes inhabiting the Andaman Islands.
They also eat pork, Andaman water monitor lizard, etc. As aquatic people, they relish octopus, molluses taken out from shell marine animals like turban shell, scorpion shell, sundial, helmet, trochus and screw shell besides various types of crabs and fish.
With the establishment of the settlement at Campbell Bay in Great Nicobar, Shompens have been visiting the settlers and they are gradually shaking off their shyness and indifferent attitude towards the civilised people.
tourism.andaman.nic.in /tribal.htm   (850 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)

  
 ASC - Seismicity of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are located near the boundary of the Indian plate and the Burmese Microplate.
The Andaman Trench marks this boundary and lies in the Bay of Bengal to the west of the archipelago (Blue teethed line).
The first of these was in 1881, in the Andaman Sea, near the Nicobar Islands and the second, off the west coast of Middle Andaman Island in June 1941.
asc-india.org /seismic/andnico.htm   (862 words)

  
 Andaman and Nicobar Islands - State Poultry Maps and Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands constitute the furthermost part of the Indian union consisting of two groups of Islands i.e.
It is situated between six degrees to 14 degrees North Latitude and East Longitude 92 degrees to 94 degrees forming a broken chain of Islands from North to South direction.
South Andaman, Middle Andaman, North Andaman separated from each other by the sea.
www.poultrysolutions.com /knowledg/tour/andman.htm   (197 words)

  
 The People's Commission On Environment & Development India
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.
As the settlements spread northwards to the Middle and North Andaman Islands, conflict intensified.
www.pcedindia.com /peoplescomm/tribes_6a.htm   (562 words)

  
 Logging off, for now
Richard C. Temple, Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, in the Census of India, 1901.
THE Andaman and Nicobar Islands are clothed in some of the finest tropical evergreen forests in the world and are home to a large number of rare and endangered, even undocumented, species of flora and fauna.
The Jarawas of South and Middle Andaman are better off still, because until recently they were extremely hostile to the outside world and defended their forests and way of life aggressively.
www.thehindu.com /fline/fl1901/19010650.htm   (2266 words)

  
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Society-ANDAMANS The Andaman Islands, consisting of four main and some 200 small islands, are located in the eastern part of the Bay of Bengal.
Some sources concerning the islands in general include Guha (1953), an anthropological survey focusing on settlement patterns and the population composition of local groups; and Sen (1962), a survey of physical geography incorporating a cultural summary of each of the main tribal divisions and a sketch of the culture history of the islands.
On the aboriginal inhabitants of the Andaman Islands.
lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7826   (1242 words)

  
 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.
www.indax.com /andamans.html   (1545 words)

  
 ANDAMAN & NICOBAR - DEKHOINDIA.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Floating in splendid isolation, east of the Indian mainland is the archipelago of 572 emerald islands, isles and rocks known as Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The Island is situated in South Andaman and to reach the Island one has to undertake 2 to 3 hrs of journey by a boat.
Located in middle Andaman at a distance of 210 kms from Port Blair, one has to undertake journey across Jarawa Reserve Forest or by a ferry via Neil Havelock to Rangat.
www.dekhoindia.com /about_places/andaman.htm   (828 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | 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.
He added that the Jarawa tribe along the west coast of South and Middle Andaman Islands was also largely safe.
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.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/4181855.stm   (1017 words)

  
 Middle and North Andamans,North and Middle Islands of Andaman
Middle and North Andamans,North and Middle Islands of Andaman
Mayabunder, which is 157 kilometres by sea from Port Blair, is the administrative capital of the Middle and North Andamans.
North Andaman has some the prettiest beaches in the entire chain of islands.Lamia Bay has a pebble beach that is perfect for an overnight camping trip.
www.indiasite.com /andaman/middle.html   (195 words)

  
 Unasylva - No. 203
The article is based in part on the field experiences of the author since 1992 in the State of Goa and the Middle Andaman Islands.
The Middle Andaman Islands comprise an area of 99 800 ha, of which 23 400 ha or 23.4 percent are covered with mangroves (Environment and Forest Department records).
For Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a suitable enactment is necessary to stop felling of mangroves in revenue and private areas (Andaman and Nicobar Islands Environment and Forest Department, 1997).
www.fao.org /docrep/x8080e/x8080e07.htm   (3051 words)

  
 ASC - North Andaman Earthquake, 1941   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The earthquake of June 26, 1941 is among the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
It was centred (5) in the Bay of Bengal, roughly, 20.5 kilometres W of Flat Island, India
or 23.6 kilometres WNW of Yadita (Middle Andaman Isl.
www.asc-india.org /gq/andaman.htm   (713 words)

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