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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; this link was not working when ISLAND LAW was last updated |
| 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 |
| Social Metabolism and Labour in a Local Context: Changing Environmental Relations on Trinket Island,
by Simron Jit Singh, Clemens M. Grünbühel, Heinz Schandl, and Niels Schulz,
from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Austrian Universities, Department of Social Ecology, Vienna, Austria |
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