Great Andaman is the main
archipelago
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of the
Andaman Islands of
India
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. It comprises seven major islands. From north to south, these are
North Andaman,
Interview Island,
Middle Andaman,
Long Island
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,
Baratang Island,
South Andaman, and
Rutland Island.
Geography
South, Middle and North islands are the largest of the entire island group. The islands' capital,
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 ...
, is located on
South Andaman.
Great Andaman group is often considered the counterpart to
Little Andaman Group, another group of islands in the Andaman's.
The Andaman islands consist of four groups:
* Great Andaman
*
Little Andaman
*
Ritchie's Archipelago
*
East Volcano Islands
Narrow creeks split Great Andaman into North Andaman, Middle Andaman, South Andaman and the other major islands. All of these islands are in the form of peaks of a submerged mountain chain. Each island has a central highland surrounded by bordering flat lands sloping in all directions and finally merged into coastal tracts.
Demographics
According to the
2011 census of India, the archipelago had 315,530 inhabitants.
References
*
Archipelagoes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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