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The Andaman Islands are a group of Indian
Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of
Bengal, between the Indian peninsula to the
west and Burma to the north and east. Most
of the islands are part of the Andaman and
Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India,
while a small number in the north of the
archipelago belong to Burma.
Lakshadweep is a group of islands in the Laccadive Sea, 200 to 440
km off the coast of the South West Indian state of Kerala. They were
also known as Laccadive Islands, although geographically this is only
the name of the central subgroup of the group. The islands form the
smallest Union Territory of India. The total
surface area of the islands is just 11 sq mi or
32 km2. However, the lagoon area is about
4,200 square kilometres (1,600 sq mi), the
territorial waters area is 20,000 square
kilometres (7,700 sq mi) and the exclusive
economic zone area is 400,000 square
kilometres (150,000 sq mi).
The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian
Ocean. They are located in Southeast Asia, 150 km north of Aceh on
Sumatra, and separated from Thailand to the east by the Andaman Sea.
Located 1,300 km southeast of the Indian subcontinent, across the Bay of
Bengal, they form part of the Union Territory of
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.
Sagar Island lies on the continental shelf of Bay of Bengal about
100 km (54 nautical miles) south of Kolkata. It belongs to the Republic
of India and is governed by the State government of West Bengal. The
island is large - with an area of around 300 km2. It
has 43 villages and a population of over 160,000. This
island is a famous Hindu pilgrim place. Every year on
the day of Makar Sankranti (mid of January), hundreds
of thousands of Hindus gather to take a holy dip at the
confluence of river Ganges and Bay of Bengal and offer
puja in the Kapil Muni Temple
Netrani (also known as Pigeon Island) is a tiny island in India located in
the Arabian Sea. It is off the coast of Karnataka. It is situated
approximately 10 nautical miles (19 km) from the temple town of
Murudeshwara. Top view of this island similar to heart shape. Besides
pigeons, the other inhabitants of the island are wild goats. This Island
has some of the best sites for scuba diving
easily accessible from Goa, Mumbai or
Bangalore. There are many dive shops from
Goa that regularly organize dive expeditions
to Netrani.
New Moore (as it was known in India) or South Talpatti
(as it was known in Bangladesh) was a small uninhabited Disputed island
offshore sandbar landform in the Bay of Bengal, off the Other names: South Talpatti

coast of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta region.[1 It Geography

emerged in the Bay of Bengal in the aftermath of the Location Bay of Bengal

Bhola cyclone in 1970, and disappeared at some later Coordinates 21.6167°N 89.1417
°E
point. Although the island was uninhabited and there Coordinates:
21.6167°N 89.1417
were no permanent settlements or stations located on °E

it, both India and Bangladesh claimed sovereignty over Archipelago Sundarbans
it because of speculation over the existence of oil and Administered by
natural gas in the region. The issue of sovereignty was
also a part of the larger dispute over the Radcliffe Disputed, Claim by both Bangladesh &
India
Award methodology of settling the maritime boundary
between the two nations Demographics
Population 0
Pamban Island also known as Rameswaram Island is an
island located between peninsular India and Sri Lanka. The
island is a part of India and forms the Rameswaram taluk
of the Ramanathapuram district of the state of Tamil Nadu.
The principal town
on the island is the
pilgrimage center of
Rameswaram.
Maliku Atoll or Minicoy Atoll is the southernmost atoll of the Union
Territory of Lakshadweep, India. It is located 201 km to the SSW of
Kalpeni, at the southern end of the Nine Degree Channel and 125
km to the north of Thuraakunu, Maldives, at the northern end of
the Eight Degree Channel. The atoll is 10 km in
length, having a maximum breadth of about 6
km. The closest geographic feature is the
Investigator Bank, a submerged shoal located
31 km to the northeast of this atoll at 8 32’N,
73 17'E.
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