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Kachchatheevu location in Jaffna Peninsula, extreme bottom left or southwest of the map. Katchatheevu (Tamil: கச்சத்தீவு, Tamil pronunciation: [kəttʃət̪t̪iːʋʉ]) [a] (Sinhala: කච්චතිවු දූපත, Kachchathiu dupatha) is an uninhabited island in Sri Lanka.
This island is also spelled as Kachchatheevu or Katchatheevu. History. St. Anthony's Catholic Shrine was dedicated in 1905, called in Tamil as Anthoniyar Koil ...
The islands of Agatti, Androth, Kavaratti and Kalpeni are inhabited. Islam is the main religion of the islanders. [6] The Laccadive Islands subgroup consists mostly of atolls with islands, as well as part of one submerged bank. The Amindivi and the Laccadive subgroups have a submarine connection between them through Pitti Bank, a largely sunken ...
The individual islands are largely named after British generals and civil officials serving in India at the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Of the archipelago which now bears his name, Ritchie's accounts and maps were the first reliable sources of information on the islands, which until then were very sketchily known to Europeans.
Pavuvu is the largest of the Russell Islands [1] in Central Province, Solomon Islands. It is located northwest of Guadalcanal. The area is 129.19 square kilometres (49.88 sq mi). The largest village is Nukufero on the north coast. The island had served as a coconut plantation for natives.
Lakshadweep (Malayalam: [lɐkʂɐd̪βʷiːbɨ̆]) is a union territory of India.It is an archipelago of 36 islands [a] divided into three island subgroups: the Amindivi Islands in the north, the Laccadive Islands (separated from Amindivi roughly by the 11th parallel north), and the atoll of Minicoy to the south of the Nine Degree Channel.
The Chagos Archipelago. (Atolls with areas of dry land are named in green)The archipelago is about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives, 1,880 kilometres (1,170 mi) east of the Seychelles, 1,680 kilometres (1,040 mi) north-east of Rodrigues Island (), 2,700 kilometres (1,700 mi) west of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and 3,400 kilometres (2,100 mi) north of Amsterdam Island.
Mangareva has a permanent population of 1,239 (2012) and the largest village on the island, Rikitea, is the chief town of the Gambier Islands. The island is approximately eight kilometres (5 mi) long and, at 15.4 km 2 (5 + 15 ⁄ 16 sq mi), it comprises about 56% of the land area of the whole Gambier group. Mangareva has a high central ridge ...