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Andaman Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4172 words) |
 | The Andaman Islands are a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. |
| Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative center of the Union Territory. |
| The length of the island chain is 352 km and its greatest width is 51 km. |
| Andaman Islands (3732 words) |
| These islands, so near countries that have for ages attained consideration civilization and have been the seat of great empires, and close to the track of a great commerce which has gone on at least 2000 years, continue to our day the abode of savages as low in civilization as almost any known on earth. |
| Dr Mouat, in 1857, whilst steaming rapidly round the islands, everywhere saw natives in considerable numbers, and was induced to believe that the older and lower estimates had been much under the truth; but there is reason to believe that the population is on the coast only. |
| The islands are exposed to the full force of the south-west monsoon of summer, and also in some seasons share that rainy effect of the north-east monsoon of the late autumn which characterizes the Coromandel coast in the same latitude. |
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