Draft:List of islands in Lakshadweep

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Map of Lakshadweep islands

district across all islands,[3]
with ten sub-divisions,[4] one elected district panchayat,[5] and 88 elected village panchayats across islands.[5]

Inhabited islands

Satellite picture showing the atolls of the Lakshadweep except for Minicoy which is further south in the map

Each of the ten officially-inhabited islands is a subdivisional head office headed by a subdivision officer. The ten islands that are officially listed as inhabited are, from north to south:[1]

Among the officially-inhabited islands, Bitra has the smallest population, recorded at 271 people during the

Bangaram, officially listed as uninhabited, had a population of 76 during the 2011 census.[1]

List

The Lakshadweep islands are divided into three island groups listed from north to south. The

Minicoy Island (or Maliku Islands) group is in the south.[6]

List by type of geographical features

There are 11 atolls with islands, 5

banks (sunken atoll), and 3 or 4 submerged reefs.[7]

List by island groups

Aminidivi Islands group

The Aminidivi Islands group is the northern group of Lakshadweep, separated from the Laccadive Islands group roughly by the 11th parallel north.[6] The total land area of the group is 9.26 km2 (3.58 sq mi). Below, atolls and islands are listed from north to south.

  • Bassas de Pedro bank (also known as Manjappar or Pedro Bank): is a submerged bank or sunken atoll.[8]
  • Cherbaniani Reef (also known as Beleapani) is a coral atoll and the northernmost feature of Lakshadweep. The atoll has a roughly oval shape and was first described by ornithologist
    Allan Hume in 1876;[9] its total lagoon area is 57.46 km2 (22.19 sq mi).[10][11] The 14 km long coral reef that encloses the lagoon
    has three small uninhabited islands:
    • Cherbaniani-I Island
    • Cherbaniani-II Island
    • Cherbaniani-III Island
  • Byramgore Atoll (also known as Chereapani) is a coral atoll[12] located 33 km south of Cherbaniani Reef and 41 km to the northwest of Bitrā Par, in the northwestern area of Lakshadweep at 11°54′N 71°49′E / 11.900°N 71.817°E / 11.900; 71.817. The whole northern part of the atoll is submerged.[13] The total length of the atoll, including the submerged part, is 21.5 km, with a maximum width of 6.3 km. The lagoon area is 172.59 km2 (66.64 sq mi).
  • Chetlat Atoll is located 37 km to the northwest of Kiltan Island[14] and norteast of Bitra Island. It has a lagoon area of 3.79 km2 (1.46 sq mi).
    • Chetlat Island is one of the populated islands of Lakshadweep. The total dry land area is 1.174 km2 (0.453 sq mi). There is a small sand spit (sandbar extension jutting out of the island) on the northern point of this island which is growing with time. The reef and lagoon are located to the west of the island.[14]
  • Bitrā Atoll is a coral reef that encompasses two islands. The Bitra Par lagoon area is 54.61 km2 (21.09 sq mi). It is located 41 km southeast of Byramgore Reef, 33 km to north of Perumal Par,[15] southwest of Chetlat Island and west of Kiltān Island.
  • Kiltān Island is one of the populated islands located 32 km to the southeast of Chetlat Island, east of Bitra Island, and 51 km to the northeast of Amini Island, between 11° 28′ and 11° 30′ N latitude and 72° 59′ and 73° 01′ E longitude, and has an area of 2.20 km2. The reef and lagoon (total area of 3.76 km2 (1.45 sq mi)) are located to the west of the island and the dry land has 3.4 km length and 0.6 km width at the broadest point.[17]
  • Pitti Bank formation.[21]
  • Amini Atoll: Amini is the name of the island where the Amini town stands and of the coral reef atoll that contains that island. The channel between Amini Island and Ladmat Island is safe and deep, but depths of less than 10 meters project 0.5 mile south from the south tip of the reefs surrounding Cardamom Island.
    • Amini Island: Amini Island, the most important of the Amindivi Islands, is oval, with the long axis oriented northeast-southwest. It is west of Perumal Bar and 5 km southwest of Kadmat Island. It is 2.8 km long and up to 1.3 km wide, yielding a land area of 2.71 km2 (1.05 sq mi). It is fringed by a reef 0.3 to 0.6 km wide.
  • Perumal Par is an uninhabited coral atoll located at 11°09′50″N 72°03′00″E / 11.164°N 72.05°E / 11.164; 72.05, 33 km south of Bitra Par, west of Amini Island, and 25 km to the northwest of Bangaram Atoll.[22]

Laccadive Islands group

The

Amindivi Islands group roughly by the 11th parallel north and from the atoll of Minicoy (Maliku) – far to the south – by the 9th parallel north or Mamala channel.[23]
Below, atolls and islands are listed from north to south.

Minicoy Island group

Map of Minicoy Atoll (Maliku).
The islet of Viringili located at the southwestern end of Minicoy's reef where formerly the lepers of the island were banished.

Below, atolls and islands are listed from north to south.

  • Maliku Atoll is the southernmost atoll of Lakshadweep. It has two islands. The Nine Degree Channel separates Minicoy and the Laccadive Islands. The closest island to Minicoy is Thuraakunu in the Republic of the Maldives. Since 1956, the Indian Government has forbidden the direct travelling between the two islands despite their geographic proximity and ethnographic similarities. Maliku Kandu is the traditional name of the broad channel between Minicoy (Maliku) and Ihavandippulhu (Haa Alif Atoll) in the Maldives. In the Admiralty Charts it is called the Eight Degree Channel.
    • Eight Degree Channel. The atoll is 10 km in length, having a maximum breadth of about 6 km. The closest geographic feature is the Investigator Bank, a submerged shoal located 31 km to the northeast.[47] It measures about 10 km from its northern end to its southernmost point and it is about 1 km wide in its southern half, while the northern half is a narrow sandspit, often less than 100 m wide. Minicoy is almost completely covered with coconut trees. One of the few landmarks of the island is the Minicoy Island Lighthouse, which was built in 1885 during the British regime[48]
    • Viringili Island (Small Pox Island): in Maliku Atoll of Minicoy's reef is an uninhabited islet located 0.6 km (0.37 mi) off the southwest end of Minicoy Island. It is barely 200 m in length, fringed with gravel, covered with bushes, and few stunted coconut trees in the center of the island. It is also called the Small Pox Island, because it was where the lepers of Minicoy were formerly banished in abject conditions.

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Subdivision and blocks". Government of India. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  3. ^ States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (PDF). Parliament of India. 14 September 1953. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Administrative setup". Government of India. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  5. ^ a b "District Panchayath". Government of India. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  6. ^ a b GEBCO Gazetteer of undersea feature names
  7. ^ Mallik TK, "Coral atolls of Lakshadweep, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean". MOJ Ecology Environment Science 2017; v2(2), p68-83.
  8. ^ Hydrographic Description (Indian Ocean Pilot)
  9. ^ Hume, Allan O., The Laccadives and the West Coast, Stray Feathers. (Calcutta), IV (1876), 413-83. 21.
  10. ^ "Lakshadweep - Cherbaniani Reef". Archived from the original on 2010-12-23. Retrieved 2011-11-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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  12. ^ Cherbaniani Reef, India
  13. ^ Byramgore Reef, India
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  15. ^ a b c Birds of Lakshadweep Islands
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  18. ^ Records of the Geological Survey of India. The Survey. 1998. p. 218.
  19. ^ "Kadmat Island, Lakshadweep". Government of Lakshadweep. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  20. ISBN 978-3-319-12367-7
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  21. ^ "Kadmat". Ocean Dots: The Island Encyclopaedia. Archived from the original on 28 September 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  22. ^ "Peremul Par - Oceandots". Archived from the original on 23 December 2010. Retrieved 2011-11-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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  26. ^ a b c d e "Uninhabited Lakshadweep island Parali I vanishes, 4 others shrinking fast". Mint. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
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