Car Nicobar

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Car Nicobar
NASA satellite image Geocover 2000
NASA satellite image Geocover 2000
Waters Indian Ocean
Archipelago Nicobar Islands
Geographical location 9 ° 10 '  N , 92 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 9 ° 10 '  N , 92 ° 46'  E
Car Nicobar (Andaman and Nicobar Islands)
Car Nicobar
length 15.9 km
width 13.1 km
surface 126.91 km²
Highest elevation 60  m
Residents 29,145 (2001)
230 inhabitants / km²
main place Ha-nyôch (Mus)
The village of Sawi in the northwest of the island (1895)
The village of Sawi in the northwest of the island (1895)

Car Nicobar ( Nicobar : Pu ) belongs to the Indian archipelago of the Nicobars in the Bay of Bengal , in the east lies the Andaman Sea . Politically, the island belongs to the Indian Andaman and Nicobar Union territory .

The small island has an area of ​​126.9 square kilometers and a population of 29,145. It reaches a height of around 60 meters in the southwest. The largest places are Perka (2527), Malacca (1637), Mus (1553), Tamaloo (1515), Sawai (1247), Arong (1194) and Big Lapati / Jayanti (1098). Mus (Ha-nyôch) is the capital of the island and the seat of the Assistant Commissioner .

In each village, the Tuhet - a council - is elected from the elders who organize everyday life. The representative of the Nicobar district on the island is the Car Nicobar Tehsil . The uninhabited island of Batti Malv, 32 kilometers to the south, also belongs to Tehsil (roughly municipality) .

Car Nicobar is the northernmost of the Nicobar Islands, followed by Batti Malv. The next island further south, Chowra , already belongs to the Tehsil Nancowry .

Car Nicobar is 750 km from the epicenter of the seaquake of December 26, 2004 and was hit hard by the following tsunami - with waves up to 9 m high.

climate

Car Nicobar
Climate diagram
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Temperature in ° Cprecipitation in mm
Source: [1] , [2]
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Car Nicobar
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Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 30.5 30.9 31.4 32.3 31.6 31.0 30.7 30.2 30.0 30.7 30.8 30.6 O 30.9
Min. Temperature (° C) 25.3 24.5 25.5 25.9 26.1 25.9 25.1 25.0 25.0 25.2 25.4 25.4 O 25.4
Precipitation ( mm ) 99 30th 53 89 317 315 236 259 328 295 290 198 Σ 2,509
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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the police with the island names ( memento of the original from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / police.and.nic.in
  2. Island-wise Statistical Outline - 2008. CAR NICOBAR ISLAND  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.and.nic.in  
  3. Bay of Bengal Pilot - Bay of Bengal and the Coasts of India and Siam, Including the Nicobar and Andaman Islands , p. 284: 200 feet
  4. Census 2011
  5. Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / police.and.nic.in
  6. ^ National Geospatial Intelligence Agency: PUB. 173, Sailing Directions (Enroute): India and the Bay of Bengal, Bethesda, Maryland, Ninth Edition (PDF; 4.0 MB), p. 255
  7. ^ Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Administrative Divisions 2011