The Ten Degree Channel is a channel that separates 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 ...

and

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from each other in the

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. The two sets of islands together form the

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n Union Territory (UT) of

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 ...

. 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

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,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

References

Channels of the Indian Ocean Landforms of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Straits of India {{AndamanNicobar-geo-stub

See also

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