Tag: india : physiographic units

• On 1 November 1956, during the reorganization of Indian states, the Lakshadweep islands were separated from Madras organized into a separate union territory for administrative purposes.
  
•  The new territory was called 'Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands before adopting the Lakshadweep name on 1 November 1973.
  
• Kavaratti  is the capital of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep in India. 
  
• Administration Secretariat was shifted from Kozhikode to Kavaratti in March 1964.
  
• The administrative headquarter; Kavaratti is the most developed island. 52 mosques are spread out over the island including the most beautiful Ujra mosque.
  

• Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.
  
• They typically live in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps.
  
• Coral, a sessile animal, relies on its relationship with plant-like algae to build the largest structures of biological origin on Earth.
  

Coral polyps are short lived microscopic organisms which lives in colonies. They flourish in shallow, mud free and warm waters. They secrete calcium carbonate

• Barren Island is an island located in the Andaman Sea. It is the only confirmed active volcano in South Asia.
  
•  Along with the rest of the Andaman Islands, it is a part of the IndianUnion Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and liesabout 138 km (86 mi) northeast of the territory's capital, Port Blair.
  
• Barren Island houses the only active volcano in India.
  

• Lakshadweep formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Aminidivi Islands, is a group of islands in the Laccadive Sea, 200 to 440 kilometres (120 to 270 mi) off the south western coast of India.
  
• The Laccadives, Minicoy and Aminidivi group of islands were renamed as Lakshadweep (literally means one lakh islands) in 1973.
  
• On 1 November 1956, Maliku was incorporated into the Union Territory of Laccadive, Minicoy, and Aminidivi Islands, renamed Lakshadweep in 1973.
  

• Length of coastline of India including the coastlines of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal and Lakshwadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea is 7517 km.
  
• Length of Coastline of Indian mainland is 6100 km.
  
•  Length of coastline (in km) (i) Gujarat 1214.7 (ii) Maharashtra 652.6(iii) Goa, Daman and Diu 160.5 (iv) Karnataka 280.0 (v) Kerala 569.7 (vi) Tamil Nadu 906.9 (vii) Pudducherry 30.6 (viii) Andhra Pradesh 973.7 (ix) Odisha 476.4 (x) West Bengal 157.5 (xi) Lakshadweep Islands 132.0 (xii) Andaman & Nicobar Islands 1962.0Total Coastline 7516.6.
  

• Andaman and Nicobar islands are near to the equator.
  
• As the sun rays fall directly on the equator first (due to earth's tilt) the difference between day and night is less.
  
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands has a humid Weather and has no winter season.

• It comprises two island groups, the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands, separated by the 10°N parallel, with the Andamans to the north of this latitude, and the Nicobars to the south. 
  
• The Andaman Sea lies to the east and the Bay of Bengal to the west.
  
• Geographically located at 11° 41' N and 92° 46' E, these islands are a part of the Bay of Bengal
  
• Two groups of islands, the Andaman and the Nicobar islands lie towards the Southeastern part of the Indian mainland.