Kamorta Island is an island in the Nicobar Islands chain of

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, located in the northeast

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between the

Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line betwee ...

and the Andaman Sea.

Facilities

INS Kardip INS Kardip is a forward operating base of the Indian Navy under the joint-services Andaman and Nicobar Command located on Kamorta Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It was commissioned in 1973. History After the 1962 Sino-Indian War, the ...

is a naval

forward operating base A forward operating base (FOB) is any secured forward operational level military position, commonly a military base, that is used to support strategic goals and tactical objectives. A FOB may or may not contain an airfield, hospital, machine ...

of the joint-services

Andaman and Nicobar Command The Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) is the first and only tri-service theater command of the Indian Armed Forces, based at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory of India. It was created in 2001 to safeguard India ...

on Kamorta island. The Indian Navy's

Kamorta-class Corvette The ''Kamorta''-class corvettes or Project 28 are a class of anti-submarine warfare stealth corvettes currently in service with the Indian Navy. Built at Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, they are the first anti-submarin ...

is named after the island.

Demographics

Kalatapu is the main village on this island. According to the

2011 census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, The Island has 915 households. List of villages from north to south and population: *

Kakana, Nancowry Kakana is a village in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located in the Nancowry tehsil. Demographics According to the 2011 census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducte ...

, 265, * Kakana South, 5, * Neeche Tapu, 2, * Pilpilow, 280, * Vikas Nagar, 235, *

Karan Karan may refer to: People * Karan (given name), an Indian given name * Karan (caste), an Indian caste * Karan Kayastha, a community of Kayastha in Bihar, India * Karan (surname) Places * Karan, Iran (disambiguation), a name for various vi ...

, 5, * Daring, 110, * Maru, 0, * Chanol, 13, * Berainak, 188, * Chota Inak, 239, *Sanuh, 15, * Banderkari, 23, * Kalatapu, 1870, * Ramzoo, 98, * Tomae, 10, * Changua, 136, * Munak, 117, * Payuha, 24, *

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, 9, * Alukian, 46,

Administration

The island belongs to the

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...

of Nancowry.

Image gallery

File:Map of Nicobar Islands-en.png, Map

References

* Islands of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Nicobar district Nicobar Islands {{AndamanNicobar-geo-stub