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The Andaman Archipelago is an oceanic continuation of the Burmese Arakan Yoma range in the north and of the Indonesian Archipelago in the south. It has 325 islands which cover an area of 6,408 km 2 (2,474 sq mi), [ 38] with the Andaman Sea to the east between the islands and the coast of Burma. [ 13]
The Andamanese peoples included the Great Andamaneseand Jarawasof the Great Andamanarchipelago, the Jangilof Rutland Island, the Ongeof Little Andaman, and the Sentineleseof North Sentinel Island.[13] At the end of the 18th century, when they first came into sustained contact with outsiders, an estimated 7,000 Andamanese remained.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India. It consists of 836 islands (of which only 31 are inhabited) grouped into two island groups: the northern Andaman Islands and the southern Nicobar Islands, separated by a 150 km (93 mi) wide channel. Port Blair is the capital and largest city of the territory, located about 1,190 km ...
The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) [ 4] is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from the Bay of Bengal to its west by the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands.
R11. Majestic -class. 4 March 1961. 31 January 1990 [ 2] Converted to IMS-Indian Museum Ship briefly but subsequently scrapped in 2014. Formerly HMS Hercules although never commissioned into the Royal Navy. INS Viraat. R22. Centaur -class.
Built at the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland, INS Mahish was commissioned on 4 June 1985. The ship was decommissioned on 11 November 2016 at Port Blair. Her last commanding office was Commoder Harkesh Yadav. [3] [4]
Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress Committee (ANTCC) is the wing of Indian National Congress in the parts of Andaman and Nicobar Islands . Rangalal Haldar is the present president of Andaman & Nicobar Territorial Congress Committee. [1]
The Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) is a integrated tri-services command of the Indian Armed Forces, based at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory of India. [ 1] It was created in 2001 to safeguard India's strategic interests in Southeast Asia and the Strait of Malacca by increasing rapid deployment of military ...