Topic summary
Minicoy Island
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Minicoy.
Etymology
Minicoy islanders have long settled in the Nicobar Islands across the Bay of Bengal. These settlers regularly travelled back to Minicoy. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands had a reputation in the Maldives and Minicoy of being inhabited by cannibals, and so collectively the Andaman and Nicobar groups were called "Minikaa-raajje" ("cannibal kingdom") by Minicoy and Maldive islanders.