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Upon learning about Chau's death, the fishermen returned to Port Blair and gave Chau's diary to his friend, also a Christian preacher, residing in the capital city. [20] He informed Chau's family in the U.S., who contacted the Consulate General of the United States in Chennai for assistance. [20] The Andaman government was notified on November ...
2014 Andaman boat disaster was an incident which occurred on 26 January 2014, when a tourist boat capsized near Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, killing 22 people. [1] The boat "Aqua Marine" was carrying 45 tourists from Tamil Nadu and Mumbai .
The Andaman Islands, although part of British India, was occupied by the Japanese without resistance. The Japanese maintained a hefty garrison on the islands until the end of World War II. They wanted to use the Andaman Islands as a strategic outpost on the eastern edge of the Indian Ocean, and use it as a naval base.
The Great Nicobar and Car Nicobar islands were the worst hit among all the islands because of their proximity to the quake and relatively flat terrain. Aftershocks rocked the area, [5] and one-fifth of the population of the Nicobar Islands was reported dead, injured or missing. [6] Chowra Island lost two-thirds of its population of 1,500.
The capital city of the Andaman Islands, Port Blair. Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative centre of the Union Territory. 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 ...
There was an unspecified number of deaths only described as "few". Shaking was felt over a very wide area; felt reports also came from Colombo, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai. [3] Islands located in a passage between Little Andaman and South Andaman Islands subsided by over 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in). [2]
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: ‘We want to prevent people making these very dangerous crossings.’
The Ross Island Prison Headquarters, 1872. Ross Island Penal Colony was a convict settlement that was established in 1858 in the remote Andaman Islands by the British colonial government in India, primarily to jail a large number of prisoners from the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Indian Mutiny.