South Cinque Island or ''Ga-o-ta-koi''US Hydrographic Office (1916
Bay of bengal Pilot
page 288. H.O. pub. 160, Government Printing Office. is an uninhabited

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

of the

Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between th ...

. It belongs to the

South Andaman South Andaman Island is the southernmost island of the Great Andaman and is home to the majority of the population of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman an ...

administrative

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

, part of the

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 ...

n union territory of

Andaman and Nicobar Islands The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India consisting of 572 islands, of which 37 are inhabited, at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The territory is about north of Aceh in Indonesia and separated f ...

. The island lies south from

Port Blair Port Blair () is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division (''tehsil'') of the islands, the headquarters for the district of South An ...

Geography

The island belongs to the Cinque Islands of Rutland Archipelago and is located between

North Cinque Island North Cinque Island or ''Gue-a-lue''US Hydrographic Office (1916Bay of Bengal Pilot page 288. H.O. pub. 160, Government Printing Office. is an uninhabited island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, p ...

( to the north) and Passage Island ( to the south). The passage between South Cinque and North Cinque is called Cinque Strait. South Cinque Island and

, to the north, are sometimes considered to be a single Cinque Island.

Administration

Politically, South Cinque Island is part of

Taluk A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

Fauna

A new species of

blenny Blenny (from the Greek and , mucus, slime) is a common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour. Six families are considered "true ...

, '' Alloblennius frondiculus'' was found in the surrounding waters.William F. Smith-Vaniz and Gerald R. Allen (2012),
''Alloblennius frondiculus'', a new species of blenny from the Andaman Islands (Teleostei: Blenniidae: Salariini)
" ''Zootaxa'', volume 3199, pages 60–65.

References

* Islands of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Tourist attractions in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Uninhabited islands of India Islands of India Islands of the Bay of Bengal {{AndamanNicobar-geo-stub