Manpura Island is an island in the northern
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line betwee ...
, Bangladesh, at the mouth of the
Meghna
The Meghna River ( bn, মেঘনা নদী) is one of the major rivers in Bangladesh, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth, which fans out to the Bay of Bengal. A part of the Surma-Meghna River System, ...
river. It consists of
Manpura upazila
Manpura ( bn, মনপুরা ) is an upazila of Bhola District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh.
Geography
thumbnail, left, 250px, Manpura Island (marked as Moncoorah I.) in 1778 map by James Rennell
Manpura is located at . It h ...
,
Bhola District
Bhola District ( bn, ভোলা) is an administrative district (''zila'') in south-central Bangladesh, which includes Bhola Island, the largest island of Bangladesh. It is located in the Barisal Division and has an area of 3403.48 km2. It i ...
. The island has an area of 373 km
2. Other major offshore islands of this region are
Bhola Island
Bhola Island (also called Dakhin Shahbazpur) is the largest island of Bangladesh with an area of 1,441 km2. It is most of the land area of Bhola District in Barisal Division.
Geography
It is situated at the mouth of the Meghna River. Ther ...
(which is the largest) and
Hatia Island
Hatiya Island is an island in the northern Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, at the mouth of the Meghna river. The Island falls under Hatiya Upazila of Noakhali District. The island has an area of 480 km2. Other major offshore islands of this region ...
. All of these islands are densely populated.
Nature
The island has a high rate of erosion. Studies made from 1973 to 2010 have shown the proof of the islands threat of land erosion.
Bhola Cyclone
The
Bhola Cyclone
The 1970 Bhola cyclone (Also known as the Great Cyclone of 1970) was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on November 11, 1970. It remains the deadliest tropical cyclone ever re ...
hit Manpura Island in 1970. The first person to notice it on the island was Kammaluddin Chodhur Y, a farmer who saw a glow in the distance before realizing it was a wave from the cyclone.
Renewable energy
The island is set to be the first island in Bangladesh to be powered only by
renewable energy by 2021. The
Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority have started traveling throughout the island to share the energy. It first started on October 1, 2019.
Crime
This island has experienced pirate attacks. In 2005, pirates
looted
Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting. ...
Tk 20
lakh ($23,690.58) and kidnapped five fisherman.
On October 28, 2009, a woman was gang raped by multiple passengers of a speed boat while heading to Manpura Island.
See also
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List of islands of Bangladesh
This is a list of Islands of Bangladesh.
The islands of Bangladesh are scattered along the Bay of Bengal and the river mouth of the Padma.
The word "Char" is used in many of the names and refers to floodplain sediment islands in the Ganges De ...
References
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Islands of Bangladesh