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The Great Nicobar Development Plan is a massive infrastructure plan (including a major transshipment port, airport, and future strategic defense) for the southern tip of Great Nicobar Island, India. The plan has generated criticism over the consequences of deforestation and giant leatherback sea turtle nesting sites.
The Nicobar Islands are part of a great island arc created by the collision of the Indo-Australian Plate with Eurasia. The collision lifted the Himalayas and most of the Indonesian islands, and created a long arc of highlands and islands, which includes the Arakan Yoma range of Burma , the Andaman and Nicobar islands, and the islands off the ...
The Cholas called the island Ma-Nakkavaram ("great open/naked land"), found in the Thanjavur inscription of 1050 AD. European traveller Marco Polo (12th–13th century) also referred to this island as 'Necuverann' and a corrupted form of the Tamil name Nakkavaram would have led to the modern name Nicobar during the British colonial period. [2]
The islands are grouped into two main clusters: the northern Andaman Islands and the southern Nicobar Islands, separated by a 150 km (93 mi) wide channel. The capital and largest city of the territory, Port Blair (officially Sri Vijaya Puram), is located approximately 1,190 km (740 mi) from Chennai and 1,255 km (780 mi) from Kolkata in mainland ...
A modern map of the Nicobar (and Andaman) islands. The Austrian colonization of the Nicobar Islands (German: Nikobaren, renamed to the Theresia Islands [Theresia-Inseln]) involved a series of three separate attempts by the Habsburg monarchy, and later the Austrian Empire, to colonize and settle the Nicobar Islands.
Great Nicobar Island Development Project [1] [2] is a planned mega-infrastructure project for the southern tip of Great Nicobar Island in Andaman Sea of India. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The island comes under the Nicobar district administriation in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands .
Due to proposed Great Nicobar Development Plan, hectares of land on Great Nicobar Island will be reclaimed to build a "Hong Kong India" with an airport, an international port, and an industrial park. This may impact 1,700 people, including many Shompens. [ 13 ]
In 1756, the Danish flag was hoisted at the island of Great Nicobar (Ny Sjælland), [1] and the colonial attempt also spread to Nancowry Island, however, these attempts already failed the next year. [2] For the rest of the 18th century, Denmark would try to establish a colonial presence on the Nicobar Islands. [2]