The maritime boundary between the Maldives and India runs through the Eight Degree Channel. It separates the islands of Minicoy and Maldives.
Which channel separates Lakshadweep and Maldives?
The Nine Degree Channel
The Nine Degree Channel is a channel in the Indian Ocean between the Laccadive Islands of Kalpeni and Suheli Par, and Maliku Atoll (Minicoy Island). These two subgroups of islands, together with the Amindivi Subgroup, form the Indian Union Territory (UT) of Lakshadweep.
Which is separated by 11 degree channel?
11-degree channel divides Amindivi and Cannanore. Andaman and Nicobar are separated by 10-degree channel. The 8-degree channel separates the island of Minicoy and Maldives. The 9-degree channels separate Minicoy and Lakshadweep.
Why it is called 10-degree channel?
This channel is 150 kilometres wide from north to south, and approximately 10 kilometres long from east to west. It has minimum depth of 7.3m and lies from east to west on the 10-degree line of latitude north of the equator, hence the name.
What separates Andaman Nicobar from Indonesia?
Abhay Kumar Singh replies: The Great Channel in the Indian Ocean separates Great Nicobar Island of India and Aceh Province of Indonesia. The Great Channel is located at six degrees north of equator and is popularly referred to as the ‘Six Degree Channel’.
Which channel separates Myanmar from North Andaman?
Coco Channel
Coco Islands are a pair of strategically important islands located in the eastern Indian Ocean, politically administered by Myanmar under Yangon Division. Geographically, they are a part of the Andaman Islands archipelago and separated from the North Andaman Island (India) by the 20-km wide Coco Channel.
Which channel separates India and Sri Lanka?
Palk Strait
Sri Lanka is separated from India by a narrow channel of sea, formed by Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar. 7,517 km encompassing the mainland, Lakshadweep Islands, and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
What separates Rutland and Little Andaman?
Duncan Passage is a strait in the Indian Ocean. It is about 48 km (30 mi) wide; it separates Rutland Island (part of Great Andaman) to the north, and Little Andaman to the south.
Which foreign country is closest to Andaman Islands?
Myanmar
Myanmar is the nearest mainland and foreign country from Andaman. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, one of the seven union territories of India, are a group of islands at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.
How many islands are there in Lakshadweep?
36 islands
India’s smallest Union Territory Lakshadweep is an archipelago consisting of 36 islands with an area of 32 sq km. It is a uni-district Union Territory and is comprised of 12 atolls, three reefs, five submerged banks and ten inhabited islands. The islands comprise of 32 sq km.
What is meant by 8 degree channel?
The maritime boundary between the Maldives and India runs through the channel. In the British Admiralty charts it is called Eight Degree Channel. It is so named as it lies on the 8-degree line of Latitude, north of the equator. Another local name for this channel is Addigiri Kandu.
Who separated Andaman and Nicobar Islands?
Ten Degree Channel
The Ten Degree Channel is a channel that separates the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands from each other in the Bay of Bengal.
Which channel separates Madagascar from mainland Africa?
Mozambique Channel
Mozambique Channel, Portuguese Canal De Moçambique, channel of the western Indian Ocean, threading between the island nation of Madagascar on the east and Mozambique on the African mainland (west).
Which is India’s only active volcano?
Barren Island
Barren Island is an island located in the Andaman Sea. It is the only confirmed active volcano in the Indian subcontinent, and the only active volcano along a chain of volcanoes from Sumatra to Myanmar.
Barren Island (Andaman Islands)
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| India | |
| District | North and Middle Andaman |
| Island group | Andaman Islands |
| Island sub-group | East Volcano Islands |
Which of the following channel divides Minicoy from Maldives?
The correct answer is Minicoy and Maldives. The Eight Degree Channel separates the islands of Minicoy and Maldives. The Nine Degree Channel separates the island of Minicoy from the main Lakshadweep archipelago.
How did Andaman and Nicobar Islands separated?
Little Andaman in the south is separated from the Nicobar Islands by the Ten Degree Channel, which is about 90 miles (145 km) wide. The Nicobars consist of 19 islands.
Which island Nehru gave to Myanmar?
After the closing of the penal colony, the facilities on Great Coco Island were transferred to the Burmese Navy. Burmese writer Mya Than Tint was among the people incarcerated at the Great Coco Island penal colony. The Coco Islands were allegedly leased to the People’s Republic of China from 1994.
What separates India and Myanmar?
The maritime boundary between India and Myanmar runs through the Andaman Sea, Coco Channel, and Bay of Bengal and was established through a bilateral agreement that was reached on 23 December 1986.
Is Burma a part of India?
When Burma became Burma and India became India. The British colony of Burma was part of the British run-state in India, the Empire of India, from 1824 to 1937. Burma was separated from the rest of the Indian Empire in 1937, just ten years before India became an independent country, in 1947.
Is Ravana a god in Sri Lanka?
Sri Lankans don’t worship Ravana as a god but they regard him as a great king for all that he is famed to do. For them, he was the king who resisted invaders.
Which gulf separates India from Sri Lanka?
Gulf of Mannar
Gulf of Mannar, inlet of the Indian Ocean, between southeastern India and western Sri Lanka. It is bounded to the northeast by Rameswaram (island), Adam’s (Rama’s) Bridge (a chain of shoals), and Mannar Island. The gulf is 80–170 miles (130–275 km) wide and 100 miles (160 km) long.
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