West Sister Island or ''Te-joma-de'' 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 ...
,
[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 pear-shaped, about 380 m long in the NE-SW direction and 340 m wide at the base. It is mostly covered by forest, and has a rocky shore all around, except for a tiny beach at the NE tip. Its highest point is 71 m above sea level.
West Sister and the larger
East Sister, located about 250
m to the northeast, comprise the group called
The Sisters. They belong to the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Territory
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 fro ...
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 ...
.
References
Islands of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Uninhabited islands of India
Islands of India
Islands of the Bay of Bengal
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