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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
| Location |
Indian Ocean, between Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea |
| Latitude and longitude |
12 00 N, 93 00 E |
| Sovereignty |
India |
| Political status notes |
Officially, "Union Territory of the Andaman and
Nicobar Islands" |
| Population |
280,661 |
| Census notes |
1991 census |
| Land area in square kilometers |
8,120 |
| Capital |
Port Blair |
Legal documents online
|
| Supreme
Court: the Environmental Case--T.N. Godavarman Thirumalpad v.
Union of India (Supreme Court of India 2002), Commissioner's
Recommendations and Judgment of the Court, from the Andaman Association |
| Supreme Court: the Jarawa Case,
High Court at Calcutta, Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction, Appellate Side, in the Circuit Bench at Port Blair (2001)
(summary and excerpts), from the Andaman Association |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Administration of the Union Territory of the Andaman and
Nicobar Islands, Andaman & Nicobar
Islands |
| The
Andamanese, online documentation by George Weber, from the
Andaman Association |
| The Nicobar Islands,
a scientific forum and online documentation on the Nicobar Islands and
the Nicobari and Shompen people, by Dr. Simron Jit Singh |
|
United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch Island
Directory |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| Befriending
the Jarawa . . . Indian tribal policy illustrated in the case of a
hunter-gatherer group in the Andaman Islands, by Carola Krebs
(2000), from the Andaman Association |
|
Humanitarian
aid and Ecological Consequences: The Nicobar Islands as a case of
'complex disaster,' by Simron Jit Singh, Marina
Fischer-Kowalski, Willibald Haas in Reddy, S. and Narain, H. (eds). Re-examining
disaster, recovery and reconstruction: Social science perspectives on
the tsunami (Delhi: Oxford University Press) (PDF 176K). |
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