East Sister Island or ''Takoa-te'' is a small uninhabited island in the
Andaman Archipelago, at the northern side of the
Duncan Passage
Duncan Passage is a strait in the Bay of Bengal. It is about wide; it separates Rutland Island (part of Great Andaman and South Andaman administrative division) to the north, and Little Andaman to the south. West of Duncan Passage is the Bay of ...
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[US Hydrographic Office (1916]
Bay of bengal Pilot
page 288. H.O. pub. 160, Government Printing Office. about 6
km southeast of
Passage Island and 18 km north of
North Brother.
The island is roughly rectangular, around 750 m long in the NE-SW direction and 550 m wide, and is mostly covered by forest; it has a beach on the NW side and a rocky shore on the three other sides. Its highest point is 76 m above sea level.
East Sister and the smaller
West Sister, located about 250
m to the southwest, comprise the group called
The Sisters. It belongs to the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Territory of
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
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References
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Islands of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Uninhabited islands of India