🌟India has two major Islands groups namely Andhaman and Nicobar and lakshadweep.
🌟The former group consists of 572 islands and are located in Bay of Bengal,and the later one has 27 islands and is located in Arabian Sea.
🌟India’s only active volcano is found on Barren Island in Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands, while the islands of the Arabian Sea are mainly coral origin.
🏝️Andhaman and Nicobar Islands🏝️:
🌟These islands are located in an elevated portion of the submarine mountains . Since these islands lie close to the equator, the climate remains hot and wet throughout the year and has dense Forests.
🌟The area of the Islands group is about 8,429 Sq.km. The entire group of Islands is divided into two.
🌟They are Andhaman in the north and the Nicobar in South.
🌟Port Blair is the administrative capital of the Andhaman and Nicobar Islands.
🌟The Ten Degree Channel separates Andhaman from Nicobar group. The southernmost tip, the Indira point is a part of Nicobar Island.
🏝️ Lakshadweep Islands🏝:
🌟This is a small group of coral islands located off the west coast of India. It covers an area of 32 Sq.km.
🌟Kavaratti is its administrative capital.
🌟Lakshadweep Islands are separated the Maldive islands by the Eight Degree Channel. The uninhibited “Pitt Islands” of this group has a bird sanctuary.
🌟Earlier, it had three divisions namely Laccadive, Mimicry, and Amindivi. It was named as Lakshadweep in 1973.
🏝️ Offshore Islands🏝:
🌟Besides the two group of Islands, India has a number of islands along the western coast, Eastern Coast, in the delta region of Ganga and in the Gulf of Mannar.
🌟Many of these islands are uninhabited and are administrated by the adjacent states.
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