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Pulo Milo or Pillomilo (Milo Island) Meroe; Menchal Island (Mini Nicobar Island) Trak Island; Treis Island; Great Nicobar (922 km 2 or 356 sq mi, largest island of the Nicobars) Kondul Island; Kabra Islet; Pigeon Islet; Megapod Islet
The islands include the North Sentinel Island, home to the Sentinelese people, among the only known uncontacted tribe in India. [59] When the islands were first colonised, the population of the natives were estimated to be around 5,000 and while the population of islands temporarily increased during colonisation, the population saw a massive ...
The Lakshadweep and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are India's two major island formations and are classified as union territories. The Lakshadweep Islands lie 200 to 440 km (120 to 270 mi) off the coast of Kerala in the Arabian sea with an area of 32 km 2 (12 sq mi). They consist of twelve atolls, three reefs, and five submerged banks, with a ...
The Andaman Islands are home to a number of animals, many of them endemic. Andaman & Nicobar islands are home to 10% of all Indian fauna species. [46] The islands are only 0.25% of the country's geographical area, but has 11,009 species, according to a publication by the Zoological Survey of India. [46]
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.
Lakshadweep (Malayalam: [lɐkʂɐd̪βʷiːbɨ̆]) is a union territory of India.It is an archipelago of 36 islands [a] divided into three island subgroups: the Amindivi Islands in the north, the Laccadive Islands (separated from Amindivi roughly by the 11th parallel north), and the atoll of Minicoy to the south of the Nine Degree Channel.
Additionally, several islands contain extensive inland grasslands, though these are thought to have resulted from human intervention. [3] As a result of lower sea levels during the ice ages, the Andaman Islands were linked to the Southeast Asian mainland, but it is not believed that the Nicobar Islands ever had a land bridge to the continent ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Pages in category "Islands of India" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...