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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 capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands territory is Port Blair on South Andaman.
		The vegetation of the Nicobars is typically divided into the coastal mangrove forests and the interior evergreen and deciduous Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicobar_Islands (886 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)

	The Hindu : Front Page : Overlapping faults
		THE ANDAMAN and Nicobar Islands are one of those quadrants of the globe where political and geological fault lines run on parallel courses.
		On the island of Car Nicobar, for example, the Indian Air Force base was built a few dozen metres from the water's edge and it was so laid out that the more senior the servicemen, the closer they were to the sea.
		In the Andaman and Nicobar islands, although the manpower and machinery for the relief effort are supplied largely by the armed forces, overall authority is concentrated in the hands of a small clutch of senior civil servants in Port Blair.
	www.hindu.com /2005/01/11/stories/2005011108991100.htm (2883 words)

	WindsoverNicobars
		The densely clustered Andaman islands and the widelyscattered Nicobar islands are separated by the 10 degree channel(situated on the 10 degree latitude) which is known for its notorioussea currents where many a small vessels have disappeared into thedepths of the ocean in the past.
		To quote from the Andaman and Nicobar ImperialGazetteer of India of 1909, "Chowra is the holy land, the cradleof the race, where men are wizards, a belief that the inhabitants ofChowra turn to good account for keeping the control of the internaltrade in their own hands".
		The inhabitants of the Nicobars according to the estimates of theongoing 2001 census is a little over 30,000, the majority being thatof the Nicobarese tribe.
	www.nicobar.org /BOOK/scientificpapers/pap_sjs_wind/pap_wind.htm (5401 words)

	NICOBAR ISLANDS - Encyclopedia Britannica - NICOBAR ISLANDS - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		NICOBAR ISLANDS, a British group of twelve inhabited and seven uninhabited islands in the Bay of Bengal, between Sumatra and the Andaman Islands, to which latter they are administratively appended.
		The marine surveys of these islands are still meagre and unsatisfactory, but the whole of the Nicobars and outlying islands were surveyed topographically by the Indian Survey Department in 18861887, when a number of maps on the scale of 2 in.
		The natives are skilful with their lands, and though they never cultivate cereals, exercise some care and knowledge over the coco-nut and tobacco, and have had much success with the foreign fruits and vegetablesintroduced by the missionaries.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/NEW_NUM/NICOBAR_ISLANDS.html (1340 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Nicobar Islands rain forests (IM0133)
		The Nicobars are separated from the Andamans in the north by a 150-km-wide channel and are 189 km from Sumatra to the southeast.
		The climate of the Nicobar Islands is warm tropical, with temperatures ranging from 22 to 30°C and 3,000-3,800 mm annual average rainfall.
		Wildlife exploitation threatens the edible-nest swiftlet in the Nicobars, the Nicobar megapode, crocodiles, and sea turtles (Das 1999; Sankaran 1997).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0133_full.html (1355 words)

	ENN: Environmental News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The remote Nicobars, more than 1,300 km (800 miles) east of the Indian mainland, are one of the world's four most important nesting sites for the critically endangered leatherback, the largest living marine reptile.
		Even before the tsunami, Andrews and other experts were increasingly worried about the future of marine turtles in the Nicobars and their sister islands, the Andamans to the north.
		While the Nicobars sank, the Andaman group was raised by the earthquake, exposing reef flats around many islands.
	www.enn.com /today_PF.html?id=7965 (618 words)

	Chapter 2: They Call it Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sometimes called collectively the Bay islands by the Indians, the sister archipelagoes of the Andamans and Nicobars form an arc across the Bay of Bengal from Burma in the north to the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the south.
		The neighboring Nicobars are so similar in so many ways yet their population, apart from the Shompen, does not resemble that of the Andamans in any way.
		Geologically, the Andamans and Nicobars represent the highest peaks of an under-water mountain range which is itself an extension of the Arakan range in Burma and the Sumatran Barisan ranges to the south.
	www.andaman.org /book/chapter2/text2.htm (3835 words)

	NICOBAR ISLANDS - Online Information article about NICOBAR ISLANDS
		Meteorology.—It has always been held to be important to maintain a meteorological station on the Nicobars, for the purpose of supplementing the See also:
		The palms of the Nicobars are, however, exceedingly graceful.
		The usual cheap European goods are imported, the foreign trade being carried on with the native traders of the neighbouring Asiatic countries.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NEW_NUM/NICOBAR_ISLANDS.html (1973 words)

	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.
	www.indiaonestop.com /andamanandnicobarislands.htm (461 words)

	Tsunami Relief Operation
		The Andamanese, Jarawas, Onges and Sentinelese are located in the Andamans district, Shom Pens primitive tribe group in Nicobars district, while Nicobarese tribes have presence both in the Andamans and Nicobars districts though the majority of them (91.23%) live in Nicorbars district.
		The Andaman & Nicobar Islands having an area of 8249 square kilometers, have a total population 3,56,152 as on 1.3.2001.
		Survey is on in Car Nicobar to assess the damage to the Nicobarese and at present 3000 are reported missing.
	www.indianngos.com /tsunami/pressrelease10.htm (1090 words)

	kachhapa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The four species of marine turtles that occur in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are the Leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), the Hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), the Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea).
		The nesting population for the Andaman Islands is estimated as 205 and for the Nicobars, 45.
		The status and ecology of sea turtles in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
	education.vsnl.com /kachhapa/k3andaman.htm (2644 words)

	We've only heard of the exotic tribes- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		NEW DELHI: You just need one statistic to realise how far removed the tribes on the Andaman and Nicobar islands are from the developing economy that is India — 30% of the tribal population reported hunting and gathering as their occupation in a survey conducted a few years back.
		Only 38 of the 572 islands are populated, 26 in the Andamans and 12 in the Nicobars.
		The Shompen, whose fate is uncertain — they were at great risk because live in Great Nicobar, the island closest to the epicentre of the quake — are a semi-nomadic tribe and number about 250 at present.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/976557.cms (509 words)

	Freeindiamedia.com, Express your impartial, radical, grassroot views on current issues.
		The Nicobars were full of friends we had developed over the years, places that we talked of as the best beaches or forest patches we had ever seen, amazing creatures we had observed at different points of time.
		Little and Great Nicobar Islands are the larger ones in the Nicobar archipelago, situated at the tail end of the chain, close to Sumatra and the Malacca straits.
		The Nicobar Megapode uses leaf litter and the sand of the coastal forest to construct a mound in which it lays its eggs.
	www.freeindiamedia.com /environment/25_oct_05_environment.htm (2106 words)

	NICOBARS [VIII:12a] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In more recent times, the Nicobars were probably visited by Portuguese missionaries, but in 1756 Denmark took them over as a colony affiliated to their trading factory at Tranquebar on the Coromandel coast.
		After an occupation by the Japanese 1942-5, the Nicobars passed in 1947 to India and are now part of the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with the seat of the Lieutenant-Governor at Port Blair in the Andamans.
		The population of the Nicobars (1961 census) is 14,563.
	www.encislam.brill.nl /data/EncIslam/S7/SIM-5897.html (381 words)

	Andaman_Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nicobar Islands that are at the northern tip of the Sumatra island.
		South of the Andaman islands lies a chain of islets known as The Nicobars that are situated at the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra, but belonging to India.
		The Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is a cluster of 575 islands, islets, atolls, reefs and other marine rocks exposed during low tides.
	wxsats.homestead.com /Andaman_Islands.html (392 words)

	>> ANET
		The Andaman and Nicobar (AandN) archipelago, situated 1200 km from the Indian mainland in the Bay of Bengal, comprises 350 tropical islands and islets of outstanding beauty and diversity.
		Of the 306 islands in the Andaman and Nicobars 94 are designated as sanctuaries, 6 as national parks, two of which are marine parks, and five as Tribal reserves.
		In 1996, Ranjan Biswas of Trailblazers, Bombay, was contracted by ANET to conduct an environmental education workshop for students and teachers of the Andaman Islands as part of ANET’s ongoing education programme, sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Embassy, New Delhi.
	www.geocities.com /mcbtcfh/ANET.htm (3390 words)

	Andaman and Nicobar Islands -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		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 Andaman Sea (east).
		Sediments in the Bay of Bengal are dominated by terrigenous deposits from the rivers, derived mainly from the Indian subcontinent and from the Himalayas.
		Calcareous clays and oozes are found near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and atop the Ninetyeast Ridge.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9111223 (878 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Regional Headquarters (Andaman and Nicobars) is commanded by the Commander, Coast Guard Region (Andaman and Nicobars) and is located at Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobars.
		He is responsible for the conduct of Coast Guard Operations on East and West Coast of Andaman and Nicobar Islands extending from North Coast of Diglipur upto South Coast of Campbell Bay.
		The Commander, Coast Guard Region (Andaman and Nicobars) is the operational and administrative authority of the District Commanders of his area of jurisdiction.
	indiancoastguard.nic.in /Indiancoastguard/org/rhqan.html (178 words)

	Nicobar Islands (from Andaman and Nicobar Islands) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		More results on "Nicobar Islands (from Andaman and Nicobar Islands)" when you join.
		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...
		The Andamans are one of the two major groups of islands in the union territory, the other being the Nicobar Islands to the south; together they constitute an archipelago that forms the boundary between the southeastern Bay of Bengal (west)...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-46283 (873 words)

	Uniting against a tsunami
		A Nicobar clergyman wrote to Lord Mountbatten saying the Nicobars (which Britain annexed in 1869 after spells of Danish and Austrian control and where the Royal Air Force had a staging post for some years after independence) should become a Crown Colony.
		After independence came Sukarno's claim that the Nicobars, only 159 km from Sumatra, epicentre of the tsunami, were an extension of the Indonesian archipelago.
		The youths were Mongolian in appearance, and later I learnt that the 12 Nicobarese communities are descended from migrants of Burman and Malay stock.
	www.buzztracker.org /2005/01/08/cache/432097.html (898 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Nicobar Islands rain forests (IM0133)
		The vegetation of the Nicobars is typically divided into the coastal mangrove forests and the interior evergreen and deciduous forests.
		Proposals to make the Nicobars a major tourist destination pose a major potential threat in the future, along with road development and the rubber and cashew trade.
		Wildlife exploitation threatens the edible-nest swiftlet, the Nicobar megapode, saltwater crocodiles, and sea turtles.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0133.html (363 words)

	Beaches, tourism and travel guide on India from chooseindiatravels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Andaman and Nicobar Islands with its administrative headquarters at Port Blair, appears in history as old as the period of Lord Rama.
		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.
		Megapode, Swiftlet, Hornbill and Nicobar Pigeon are some of the specialties of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
	www.chooseindia.com /tourism/andaman/info.html (646 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.
		The Nicobars, which comprise 19 small islands, are separated from the Andamans by a channel that is 90 mi (145 km) wide.
		The Nicobars became a British possession in 1869.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AndamanN.html (259 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Three groups of islands in the Indian Ocean, the chain of atolls comprising Lakshadweep in the southern Arabian Sea and the Andaman and Nicobar Island groups in the eastern Bay of Bengal, have fringing reefs.
		Reddiah (1977) and Sewell (1922 and 1935) visited the Nicobars and Gardiner (1901, 1903 and 1903-6) and Pillai (1971a, b, and 1983a) studied the reefs of Lakshadweep.
		Coral diversity in the Andaman, Nicobar and Lakshadweep groups appears lower than in south-east India, but this may be partly due to lack of work in the former areas.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /igcmc/s_sheets/coral/1354h.html (3226 words)

	Sanctuary Asia - Features
		The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are divided into the northern Andaman group, and the southern Nicobar group, which again consists of the picturesque Nancowry group of islands and the southern most Nicobar group, comprising Great and Little Nicobar and a few smaller islands.
		Owing to its greater proximity to the southeast Asian region, the biogeographic affinity of the Nicobars is largely to that region (the distance between the southern tip of Great Nicobar and the Sumatran mainland is about 100 km.).
		While we did not observe them eating crabs in Great Nicobar, they were often seen on the Pandanus trees bordering the beach, the fruit of which are part of their diet, and we were told that they sometimes dig up turtle nests for eggs.
	www.sanctuaryasia.com /features/detailfeaturescategory.php?id=485&catid=33 (2071 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Nicobars find the force is with them
		It is part of an unprecedented relief effort for this southern part of the Andamans archipelago, the part worst hit by December's tsunami.
		Most of the airmen and officers live in tents on the edge of the runaway, their living quarters destroyed on Car Nicobar beach.
		Brig James Devadoss is in charge of the overall relief effort in the Nicobar islands.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/south_asia/4155911.stm (502 words)

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