Button Islands are a group of islands of the

Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago, made up of 200 islands, in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a mari ...

. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative

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, part of the

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India comprising 572 islands, of which only 38 are inhabited. The islands are grouped into two main clusters: the northern Andaman Islands and the southern Nicobar Islands, separated by a ...

History

Several

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s were established on the islands.
There is a lighthouse at the tallest hill on North button island, established 1983.
There is a lighthouse at the tallest hill on Middle button island, established 1983.
There is a lighthouse at the tallest hill on south button island, established 1983.

Geography

The islands belong to the Ritchie’s Archipelago and are located north of Outram Island. Besides a variety of submerged corals,

Dolphin A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the cetacean clade Odontoceti (toothed whale). Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontopori ...

Dugong The dugong (; ''Dugong dugon'') is a marine mammal. It is one of four living species of the order Sirenia, which also includes three species of manatees. It is the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; its closest ...

and

Blue whale The blue whale (''Balaenoptera musculus'') is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of and weighing up to , it is the largest animal known ever to have existed. The blue whale's long and slender body can ...

are important marine animals for conservation. These islands also forms abode to many species of

avifauna Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight ...

and fishes. Coral dominate the islands as submerged fringing types.

Administration

Politically, Button Islands are part of

Port Blair Port Blair (), officially named Sri Vijaya Puram, is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division (''tehsil'') of the islands, the headqu ...

Taluk A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative ...

. Rani Jhansi Marine National Park is located in the vicinity of the islands, which includes Middle Button Island National Park, South Button Island National Park, and

North Button Island National Park North Button Island National Park is a national park in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands along the coast of India. The park is about and home to many creatures such as the dugong and the dolphin. North Button Island National Park was set up in 19 ...

References

* Ritchie's Archipelago Islands of South Andaman district Archipelagoes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Tourist attractions in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Uninhabited islands of India {{AndamanNicobar-geo-stub