Indira Point
Indira Point | ||
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2011 census code645188 | | |
Indira Point, the southernmost point of India's territory,
Etymology
This village was named Indira Point after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.[5] The point was formerly known as Pygmalion Point and Parsons Point.[6] 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.[7]
History
The Indira Point lighthouse was commissioned into service on 30 April 1972.[8][9]
Located 500 kilometres north of the epicenter of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the southernmost tip subsided 4.25 metres (13.9 ft) after the earthquake, and many of the inhabitants went missing in the tsunami that followed.[10] Sixteen to twenty families living next to the lighthouse and four scientists studying leatherback sea turtles were lost.[11]
Geography
Government is also constructing a 21 km road from Shashtri Nagar to Indira Point via a bridge on the Galathea river. The total length of the road from Zero Point to Indira Point will be 56 km and it will completed within next few years (c. 2017).[12] This area is protected by the Indian Coast Guard.[12]
Galathea National Park and Lighthouse are the major attractions here.
Administration
The village comes under the administration of Laxmi Nagar panchayat.[13]
Demographics
The village lost many of its residents in the 2004 tsunami. According to the 2011 census of India, Indira Point has only 4 households left. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 85.19%.[14]
See also
- Exclusive economic zones
- Exclusive economic zone of India
- Exclusive economic zone of Indonesia
- Exclusive economic zone of Malaysia
- Exclusive economic zone of Thailand
- India's Look-East Connectivity projects
- Sabang strategic port development, India-Indonesia project
- Sittwe Port, India-Myanmar project
- Dawei Port Project in Myanmar
- Extreme points
- Coco Islands, Myanmar's islands closest to Indian islands in northern Andaman sea
- Narcondam Island, India's easternmost point of Andaman Nicobar Islands group
- Landfall Island, India's northernmost island of Andaman Nicobar Islands group
- Rondo Island, Indonesia's northernmost island in Andaman sea
- Extreme points of India
- Extreme points of Indonesia
- Extreme points of Myanmar
- Extreme points of Bangladesh
- Extreme points of Thailand
- Borders of India
- Other topics
- List of volcanoes in India
- List of endangered animals in India
- List of World Heritage Sites in India
References
- ^ "Nicobar's bicycle diaries".
- ^ "Andaman and Nicobar Islands villages" (PDF). Land Records Information Systems Division, NIC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ^ "Rondo Island, The Rich Uninhabited Island". Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ India seeks to aid Indonesia in developing port in Aceh, Economic Times, 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Indira Point".
- ISBN 9788177080810.
- ISBN 978-1-4602-5877-4.
- ^ Indira Point Lighthouse, Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships, Ministry of Shipping.
- ^ Indira Point Lighthouse: 4.25 m of subsidence in the 26 Dec 2004 earthquake
- ISBN 978-1-61069-446-9.
- ^ Islands' death toll could reach 15,000 by Luke Harding. Sydney Morning Herald, 1 January 2005.
- ^ a b Zero point to Indira Point road
- ^ List of Villages Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Integrated Management Information System (IMIS), Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
- 2011 Census of India. Directorate of Census Operations, Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Archived from the original(PDF) on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.