South Andaman Island is the southernmost island of Great Andaman and is home to the majority of the Andaman Islands' population. It is home to Port Blair, the capital of the islands, and is also known for its diving possibilities.
Some areas of the island are prohibited areas for non-Indians. Like the rest of the archipelago, it was struck by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which led to many deaths on the island.
The Andaman Islands, so near countries that have for ages attained considerable 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, are the abode of savages as low in civilization as almost any known on earth.
The Andaman colony obtained a tragical notoriety from the murder of the viceroy, the earl of Mayo, by a Mahommedan convict, when on a visit to the settlement on the 8th of February 1872.
In the same year the two groups, Andaman and Nicobar, the occupation of the latter also having been forced on the British government (in 1869) by the continuance of outrage upon vessels, were united under a chief commissioner residing at Port Blair.
The hills rise, to a considerable elevation: the chief heights being in the North Andaman, Saddle Peak (732 m.); in the Middle Andaman, Mount Diavolo behind Cuthbert Bay (511 m.); in the SouthAndaman, Koiob (459 m.), Mount Harriet (364 m.) and the Cholunga range (324 m.); and in Rutland Island, Ford's Peak (433 m.).
A section of the Forest Department of India was established in the Andamans in 1883, and in the neighbourhood of Port Blair 400 sq.
The Andaman colony obtained a tragical notoriety from the murder of the viceroy, the earl of Mayo, by a Mahommedan convict, when on a visit to the settlement on February 8, 1872.
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