General Loganathan, of the Indian National Army, was Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which had been annexed to the Provisional Government.

The Andaman Islands form a single administrative district within the Union Territory, the Andaman district ( the Nicobar Islands were separated and established as the new Nicobar district in 1974 ).

* Endemic birds of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

* Official Andaman and Nicobar Tourism Website

* Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Tourism Portal

* Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Destination Guide

Category: Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Category: Islands of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Rajendra Chola I's navies went even further, occupying coasts from Burma to Vietnam, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Lakshadweep ( Laccadive ) islands, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia and the Pegu islands.

India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, some southeast of the mainland, share maritime borders with Burma, Thailand and Indonesia.

The sole Part D state was the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which were administered by a lieutenant governor appointed by the central government.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the state of Gujarat have 200 each while other states such as Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, West Bengal, Jharkhand have populations ranging from 60 to 30 people.

The Arakan Yoma highlands in Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal were also formed as a result of this collision.

Roughly triangular in shape, it is bordered mostly by India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Burma ( Myanmar ) and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east.

* Endemic birds of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

* Official Andaman and Nicobar Tourism Website

* Andaman and Nicobar Administration Website

* Andaman and Nicobar Administration Website

zh-min-nan: Andaman kap Nicobar Kûn-tó

ca: Illes Andaman i Nicobar

eu: Andaman eta Nicobar uharteak

It has 325 islands which cover an area of, with the Andaman Sea to the east between the islands and the coast of Burma.

North Andaman Island is south of Burma, although a few smaller Burmese islands are closer, including the three Coco Islands.

The subsoil of the Andaman islands consists essentially of Late Jurassic to Early Eocene ophiolites and sedimentary rocks ( argillaceous and algal limestones ), deformed by numerous deep faults and thrusts with ultramafic igneous intrusions.

The Andaman islands are home to a number animals, many of them endemic.

The Spotted Deer Axis axis, the Barking Deer and the sambar were all introduced to the Andaman islands, though the sambar did not survive.

The islands also have a number of endemic reptiles, toads and frogs, such as the South Andaman Krait ( Bungarus andamanensis ).

Of the people who live in the Andaman Islands, a small minority of about 1, 000 are the so-called Adamanese, the aboriginal inhabitants ( adivasi ) of the islands.

In 1971 Greenberg proposed the Indo-Pacific macrofamily, which groups together the Papuan languages ( a large number of language families of New Guinea and nearby islands ) with the native languages of the Andaman Islands and Tasmania but excludes the Australian Aboriginal languages.

The northern tip of Sumatra borders the Andaman islands, while on the lower eastern side are the islands of Bangka and Belitung, Karimata Strait and the Java Sea.

A line running from Cape Negrais ( 16 ° 03 ' N ) in Burma through the larger islands of the Andaman group, in such a way that all the narrow waters between the islands lie to the Eastward of the line and are excluded from the Bay of Bengal, as far as a point in Little Andaman Island in latitude 10 ° 48 ' N, longitude 92 ° 24 ' E and thence along the Southwest limit of the Burma Sea

The Eastern limit of the Bay of Bengal line running from Cape Negrais ( 16 ° 03 ' N ) in Burma through the larger islands of the Andaman Islands | Andaman group, in such a way that all the narrow waters between the islands lie to the Eastward of the line and are excluded from the Bay of Bengal, as far as a point in Little Andaman Island.

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Interview Island ( the largest wildlife sanctuary in the territory ) in Middle Andaman holds a population of feral elephants, which were brought in for forest work by a timber company and released when the company went bankrupt.

To maintain their forces in Burma, the Japanese were required to bring supplies and troops to Burma by sea, through the Strait of Malacca and the Andaman Sea.

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge were flying the Lady Southern Cross overnight from Allahabad, India, to Singapore, as part of their attempt to break the England-Australia speed record held by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black, when they disappeared over the Andaman Sea in the early hours of 8 November 1935.

In British colonial India, opponents of British rule were transported to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman islands.

Some migrants were sent to the Andaman islands where Bengali today form the largest linguistic group.

Over 400 ' communist sympathisers ' were arrested, of which 153 were deported to the Coco Island in the Andaman Sea.

He also claims that the several islands in the Andaman Sea, including the Coco Islands, which belong to Myanmar, were gifted by the former Prime Minister of India Nehru to the Burmese, rather than part of the original territory gained at Independence.

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.

At least 6, 000 people ( possibly a conservative estimate ) were killed on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands during the disaster.

In the past, several species including the Philippine Serpent Eagle ( S. holospila ), Andaman Serpent Eagle ( S. elgini ) and South Nicobar Serpent Eagle ( S. klossi ) were treated as subspecies of the Crested Serpent Eagle.

As the colonisation and settlement process of the Andaman Islands intensified from the late 19th century and into the 20th century, the indigenous Great Andamanese groups were greatly reduced in number and became alienated from their traditional territories.

The Pucikwar were one of the indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, one of the ten or so Great Andamanese tribes identified by British colonials in the 1860s.

The only Indian territory that the Azad Hind government controlled were the Indian territories that fell during the Imphal offensive, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

* The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, now part of India, were originally inhabited by 14 aboriginal tribes.

On 7 May 1867 at the island of Little Andaman, eastern India, in the Bay of Bengal, Private Murphy was one of a party of five ( David Bell, James Cooper, Campbell Mellis Douglas and William Griffiths ) of the 2 / 24th Regiment, who risked their lives in manning a boat and proceeding through dangerous surf to rescue some of their comrades who had been sent to the island to find out the fate of the commander and seven of the crew, who had landed from the ship Assam Valley and were feared murdered by the cannibalistic islanders.

Bose had fled Burma and returned to Singapore before the fall of Rangoon ; the government Azad Hind had established on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands collapsed when the island garrisons of Japanese and Indian troops were defeated by British troops and the islands themselves retaken.

In response, the India Home Affairs minister announced that a fresh onslaught of deadly tidal waves were likely along the India southern coast and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, even as there was no sign of turbulences in the region.

By the end of the 18th century there were an estimated 5, 000 Great Andamanese living on Great Andaman, comprising 10 distinct tribes with distinct languages.