The Ten Degree Channel is a
channel that separates the
Andaman Islands and
Nicobar Islands from each other in the
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 ...
. The two sets of islands together form the
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
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Union Territory (UT) of
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India consisting of 572 islands, of which 37 are inhabited, at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The territory is about north of Aceh in Indonesia and separated f ...
. This channel is wide from north to south,
and approximately 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,
[Ten degrees channel (India)]
Sea-Seek] hence the name.
File:Andaman_Islands.PNG, Ten Degree Channel is in the red square
File:Andaman_nicobar_76.jpg, Andaman and Nicobar Islands map
File:Ten_Degree_Channel,_Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands,_India.png, Ten Degrees Channel, closeup
See also
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Andaman Sea
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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 ...
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Nine Degree Channel
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Coco Islands
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Preparis
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Exclusive economic zone of India
References
Channels of the Indian Ocean
Landforms of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Straits of India
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