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A spinner dolphin in Bay of Bengal Tachypleus gigas in Odisha. The Bay of Bengal is full of biological diversity, diverging amongst coral reefs, estuaries, fish spawning and nursery areas, and mangroves. The Bay of Bengal is one of the World's 64 largest marine ecosystems. Kerilia jerdonii is a sea snake of the Bay of Bengal.
English: A basic map of the Bay of Bengal intended for use with locator templates. Latitude extent: 31 to -4, longitude: 73.2 to 107. The coordinate system used is the equirectangular WGS 1984 (it makes it very easy to handle with the locator templates, but it's not really suitable for other uses).
North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. [8] The island is a protected area of India. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe in voluntary isolation who have defended, often by force, their protected isolation from the outside world.
The Maldives depended on the Bay of Bengal for its huge shell currency trade. [10] In the 16th century, the Portuguese empire began traversing the sea routes of the Bay of Bengal. Portuguese maps referred to the bay as the "Gulf of Bengal". [11] The Burmese Empires and the Kingdom of Mrauk U were major powers in the Bay of Bengal.
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4.1 Location map templates. 4.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/Bay of Bengal/doc. Add languages. Add links. Module;
Module:Location map/data/Bay of Bengal is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on equirectangular map of Bay of Bengal. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
They are located in Southeast Asia, 150 kilometres (93 mi) northwest of Aceh on Sumatra, and separated from Thailand to the east by the Andaman Sea. Located 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) southeast of the Indian subcontinent , across the Bay of Bengal , they are part of India, as the Nicobar district within the union territory of the Andaman and ...