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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 Great Andamanese are an indigenous people of the Great Andaman archipelago in the Andaman Islands. Historically, the Great Andamanese lived throughout the archipelago, and were divided into ten major tribes. Their distinct but closely related languages comprised the Great Andamanese languages, one of the two identified Andamanese language ...
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 Andamanese are a designated Scheduled Tribe in India's constitution. [ 7][ 8] The Andamanese peoples are among the various groups considered Negrito, owing to their dark skin and diminutive stature. All Andamanese traditionally lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and appear to have lived in substantial isolation for thousands of years. [ 9]
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.
Succeeded by. Kiran Bedi. Personal details. Born. ( 1953-01-11) 11 January 1953 (age 71) Lieutenant General Ajay Kumar Singh, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM is the former [1] Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. [2] He is an alumnus of Sainik School Rewa and National Defence Academy. He is former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of ...
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 ...