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In 1967, a group of 20 people, comprising the governor, armed forces and naval personnel, were led by T. N. Pandit, an Indian anthropologist working for the Anthropological Survey of India, to North Sentinel Island to explore it and befriend the Sentinelese. [23] [38] [54] This was the first visit to the island by a professional anthropologist. [8]
A forested islet, Constance Island, also "Constance Islet", [1] is located about 600 metres (2,000 ft) off the southeast coastline, at the edge of the reef. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake tilted the tectonic plate under the island, lifting it by one to two metres (3 to 7 ft). Large tracts of the surrounding coral reefs were exposed and became ...
Chau was born on December 18, 1991, in Scottsboro, Alabama.The third and youngest child of Lynda Adams-Chau, an organizer for Chi Alpha, and Patrick Chau, a Chinese-American psychiatrist who left mainland China during the Cultural Revolution, [5] Chau grew up in Vancouver, Washington, and attended Vancouver Christian High School.
[17]: par 28 On 8 November, 1965 the UK created the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) by an Order in Council. [17]: par 17 On 30 December 1966, the U.S. and UK signed a 50-year agreement [24] to use the Chagos for military purposes, and that each island so used would be without a resident civilian population. [25]
The Chagos Archipelago of 70 tiny islands and atolls is located in the central Indian Ocean, about 1,500 km from the southern tip of India, 3,400 km due east of Africa and 3,000 km west of Indonesia. Politically, Chagos is constituted as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). [14]
16 people who were washed onto an island [specify] during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and were rescued after two months [citation needed] Jesús Vidaña , Salvador Ordóñez and Lucio Rendón, three Mexican fishermen from the port of San Blas, Nayarit who sailed 5,500 miles (8,900 km) in nine months before being rescued 200 miles (320 km ...
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The islands of the Indian Ocean are part of either the eastern, western, or southern areas. Some prominently large islands include Madagascar , Sri Lanka , and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra , Java , and Lesser Sunda Islands .