
	Where results make sense

Topic: North Andaman

Related Topics

Great Andaman

Andaman Islands

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

Hooghly River

1888

In the News (Mon 16 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andaman_Islands (4252 words)

	ANDAMAN ISLANDS - LoveToKnow Article on ANDAMAN ISLANDS
		Trustworthy information also-regarding the weather which may be expected in the north and east of India, is obtained at the islands, and this proves of the utmost value to the controllers of the great trades dependent upon the rainfall.
		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: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Chapter 2: They Call it Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		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.
		The Andamans are rising and falling with the erratic local movement of the earth's crust.
	www.andaman.org /book/chapter2/text2.htm (3832 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.
	www2.db.dk /pe/Andaman.htm (5786 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.
		The coasts of the Andamans are deeply indented forming a number of safe harbors and tidal creeks which are surrounded by mangrove swamps.
		They are Shoal Bay and Kotara Anchorage in the South Andaman, Cadell Bay and the Turtle Islands in the North Andaman and Outram Harbour and Kwangtung strait in the Archipelago.
	www.webindia123.com /territories/andaman/land/andamans.htm (609 words)

	ASC - North Andaman Earthquake, 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The earthquake of June 26, 1941 is among the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
		The Cellular Jail which was a 3 storey building with 696 solitary cells and infamous for the imprisonment, torture and murder or freedom fighters, including Vinayak D. Savarkar was destroyed as were all the elegant buildings and wide roads, on Ross Island, the administrative centre of the British.
		The maximum intensity (4) was experienced at Baratang Island, Shoal Bay creek, north of Port Blair and near Port Anson.
	www.asc-india.org /gq/andaman.htm (713 words)

	HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	North Andaman Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Andaman Island is the northernmost island of Great Andaman, and also the largest of the Andaman Islands, with an area of 2,781 km².
		The island is also home to the highest point in the archipelago, Saddle Peak at over 700 metres.
		North Andaman experiences fairly frequent large earthquakes and suffered inundation from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Andaman_Island (135 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)

	General Information on Andaman&Nicobar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Islands are in two groups: the Andamans and the Nicobar, with a ten degree channel separating the two.
		Geographically, they are situated between the 6th and 14th parallel of north, latitude and between 92 degree and 94 degree of east longitude.
		Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is 120 miles from Cape Negrais in Burma, 780 from Calcutta and 749 from Madras.
	www.indiainbusiness.nic.in /indian-states/andaman/general.htm (1056 words)

	andaman & nicobar islands, port blair, inslands of india, indian islands
		Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a string of 300 tropical islands which lie scattered halfway between Calcutta and the equator.
		Most ofthe Andamans are hilly and forested, Saddle Peak on North Andaman, which rises to 732 m, is the highest point.
		Andaman and Nicobar Islands were finally annexed by the British in the 19th century and used as a penal colony for Indian freedom fighters.
	www.india-travel.com /anda_nic.htm (331 words)

	PIB Press Release
		The highest point in the Andaman Islands is the 750 metre high Saddle Peak in North Andaman.
		This river is a major stream of North Andaman and traverses in a northerly direction for a total length of 35 km before merging into the sea near the Aerial Bay on the eastern coast.
		The Andaman and Nicobar Administration is now looking for other sources of eco-friendly power generation to protect the fragile eco-system of the islands.
	pib.nic.in /release/release.asp?relid=1185 (455 words)

	ANDAMAN & NICOBAR - DEKHOINDIA.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		Head quarters of North Andaman, at a distance of 360 kms from Port Blair and 85 km from Rangat Island.
	www.dekhoindia.com /about_places/andaman.htm (828 words)

	Lawson Travel - Air Specials
		The Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands consisting of about 293 islands (39 of which are inhabited) is situated in the Bay of Bengal.
		Andaman roup of islands consists of North Andaman, Middle Andaman.
		The headquarters of this Union Territory is at Port Blair, situated in South Andaman Island.The topography of the islands is hilly and they abound in evergreen forests.Timber is plentiful and of a vast variety.
	lawsontravel.com /andaman_nicobar.asp (817 words)

	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)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Andaman and Nicobar groups of islands are situated in the Bay of Bengal, mid way between peninsular India and Mayanmar, spreading like a broken necklace in the North-south direction.
		Islands located north of 10º N latitude are known as Andaman group of Islands while islands located south of 10º N latitude are called Nicobar group of islands.
		An average of 3000 mm per year is received from south west and north east monsoons which extend over a period of eight months.
	forest.and.nic.in /frst-island1.htm (689 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 Islands charter yacht Ilala exclusive sail, dive and diving holidays in the Andamans and the Andaman Sea
		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 Andaman and Nicobar islands are famous for their indigineous birds which include parrot, parakeets and macaws.
		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.
	www.ilala.net /Andamans/andamans.htm (326 words)

	Indian Journal of Medical Research: Risk factors in the transmission of leptospiral infection
		Various factors influencing the animal activity, suitability of the environment for the survival of the organism and behavioural and occupational habits of human beings can be the determinants of the incidence and prevalence of the disease.
		The Andaman islands were known to be endemic for leptospirosis during the early part of this century2.
		In North Andaman, outbreaks due to leptospiral infection occur with a clustering of cases within a span of about three weeks during the end of October and early November.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3867/is_199805/ai_n8798347 (1351 words)

	[No title]
		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)

	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)

	Images of the Andaman Islands - Travel-Images.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		North Andaman island - Port Blair: the "Ambassador"
		North Andaman island - Port Blair: Cellular jail - cell wings from a central tower
		North Andaman island - Port Blair: corridor at the cellular jail - built for Indian convicts, alias Freedom Fighters
	geo.ya.com /travelimages/andaman.html (93 words)

	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.
		To its north are small bays strewn with large eroded boulders, while to its south lies the Saddle Peak, which stands 730 metres tall.
	www.indiasite.com /andaman/middle.html (195 words)

	ASC - Seismicity of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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).
		Another prominent feature is the north-south West Andaman fault which is strike-slip in nature and lies in the Andaman Sea, to the east of this island chain (Red line).
	www.asc-india.org /seismic/andnico.htm (862 words)

	Beaches - Andaman Nicobar Island
		It is situated 57 kms North East of Port Blair.
		Cinque Island:Surrounded by pristine coral reefs, uninhabited North and South Cinque are among the prettiest islands in the Andamans.
		Little Andaman is the vegetable bowl for the Nicobar group of islands.
	www.indiatravelite.com /Beaches/andamanislands.htm (990 words)

	Sumatra Andaman earthquake
		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.
		The earthquake took place in most active seismic region characterised by tectonic features of North South trending Indo-Burma ranges in the north, Andaman-Nicobar islands and the Sumatra fault system in the southeast.
	www.gsi.gov.in /suma_eq.htm (216 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION In the Bay of Bengal, to the north of the Nicobar Islands; 1013'-14N, 92-93E. The Andaman Islands are the emerged part of a mountain chain and lie on a ridge which extends southward from the Irrawaddy Delta area of Burma, continuing the trend of the Arakan Yoma range.
		It is considered to be the least disturbed group of islands with the richest coral reefs in the Andamans (Nair, 1986).
		The Andaman and Nicobar groups emerged as priority concerns at the 1985 Cochin Symposium on Endangered Marine Animals and Marine Parks.
	www.wcmc.org.uk /igcmc/s_sheets/coral/1355h.html (1434 words)

	North Andaman Definition / North Andaman Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		North Andaman Island is the northernmost island of Great AndamanGreat 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, additionally lies in the archipelago....
		North Andaman is the highest peak and is 732 metres high.
	www.elresearch.com /North_Andaman (192 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)