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Indira Point

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Helicopter service. Inter Island Boat from Port Blair is also available which usually travels via Little Andaman, Car Nicobar and Nancowry en route to Campbell Bay. MV Campbell Bay also operates once in a week from Port Blair (Phoenix Bay) to Campbell Bay.
318:. It was renamed in honour of Indira Gandhi during mid-1980s. The announcement was made by the local Member of Parliament when Indira Gandhi visited the local light house on 19 February 1984. The official renaming ceremony happened on 10 October 1985. 297:
under the strategic military and economic collaboration to protect the channel between Great Nicobar Island and Rondo Island (c. May 2019), which is 612 km or 330 nautical miles from Indira Point.
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Government is also constructing a 21 km road from Shashtri Nagar to Indira Point via a bridge on the
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that followed. Sixteen to twenty families living next to the lighthouse and four scientists studying
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The village lost many of its residents in the 2004 tsunami. According to the
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Indira Point Lighthouse: 4.25 m of subsidence in the 26 Dec 2004 earthquake
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Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features
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is connected to mainland India via air service. From Port Blair,
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This village was named Indira Point after former Prime Minister
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India and ASEAN: foreign policy dimensions for the 21st Century
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by Luke Harding. Sydney Morning Herald, 1 January 2005.
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India seeks to aid Indonesia in developing port in Aceh
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Joyce A. Quinn; Susan L. Woodward (31 January 2015).
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Located 500 kilometres north of the epicenter of the
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Rendezvous: Forbidden Land of the "Nicobar Islands"
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The point was formerly known as 14: 465:Sabang strategic port development 1508:Villages in Great Nicobar tehsil 440:Exclusive economic zone of India 419: 149: 83: 76: 50: 43: 1473:Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve 801:Zero point to Indira Point road 1: 1487:Nicobar Islands rain forests 529:Extreme points of Bangladesh 335:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake 581:"Nicobar's bicycle diaries" 519:Extreme points of Indonesia 262:Andaman and Nicobar Islands 169:Andaman and Nicobar Islands 1534: 1481:Campbell Bay National Park 1468:Car Nicobar Air Force Base 765:. ABC-CLIO. pp. 34–. 551:List of volcanoes in India 534:Extreme points of Thailand 1219:Al-Hit-Touch (Balu Basti) 913:Great Nicobar Subdivision 709:HPS Virk (5 March 2015). 524:Extreme points of Myanmar 467:, India-Indonesia project 109: 37: 30: 434:Exclusive economic zones 1351:(Kalatapu, incl. Sanuh) 918:Car Nicobar Subdivision 736:Indira Point Lighthouse 514:Extreme points of India 473:, India-Myanmar project 343:leatherback sea turtles 268:. It is located in the 202:47 m (154 ft) 129:6.780621°N 93.8258513°E 1477:Galathea National Park 682:K. Raja Reddy (2005). 380:Galathea National Park 1513:Great Nicobar Island 923:Nancowry Subdivision 840:2011 Census of India 817:5 March 2016 at the 407:2011 census of India 258:Great Nicobar Island 134:6.780621; 93.8258513 97:Indira Point (India) 1397:(incl. 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Indira Point is located in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Indira Point is located in India
6°46′50″N 93°49′33″E / 6.780621°N 93.8258513°E / 6.780621; 93.8258513
India
State
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
District
Nicobar
Tehsil
Great Nicobar
Time zone
UTC+5:30
IST
2011 census
Nicobar district
Great Nicobar Island
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
India
Great Nicobar
tehsil
Rondo Island
Sabang
Aceh
Sumatra
Sabang
Indira Gandhi
lighthouse
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
tsunami
leatherback sea turtles

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