Port Blair

Port Blair
State :	India
Union Territory :	Andaman and Nicobar Islands
District :	South Andaman
Location :	11 ° 40 ′  N , 92 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 11 ° 40 ′  N , 92 ° 45 ′  E
Area :	16.64 km²
Residents :	108,058 (2011)
Population density :	6494 inhabitants / km²

Port Blair is the largest city in the Andaman Islands and the capital of India's Andaman and Nicobar Union Territory . It is located on the east coast of South Andaman Island with a major ferry and sea port. Port Blair has around 108,000 inhabitants (2011 census).

City structure

Port Blair is divided into the following districts: Aberdeen, Austinabad, Buniyadabad, Dudhline, Haddo, Junglighat, Lamba Line, Minnie Bay, Nayagaon, Pahargaon, Phoenix Bay, Shadipur and South Point.

history

The place was named after Archibald Blair of the British East India Company , who in 1789 founded a colony called Port Cornwallis in the area that would later become Port Blair, named after the then Governor General of the British East India Company, Lord Cornwallis. In December 1790 the place was relocated and in 1796 the colony was abandoned, mainly because of the rampant malaria there .

Today's Port Blair was founded by the British in 1858. From 1862 to 1864, Robert Christopher Tytler administered Port Blair as superintendent.

From 1943 to 1945, a few soldiers of the Indian National Army and a Chief Commissioner of the Provisional Government of India Azad Hind (Free India) under Subhash Chandra Bose were stationed in Port Blair .

The 2004 earthquake in the Indian Ocean caused moderate damage here too.

religion

74.37% of the population are followers of Hinduism and 12.43% each are Muslims and Christians .

In 1984 the Roman Catholic diocese of Port Blair was established in the city .

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  Street scene
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  Cellular Jail

Attractions

One of the few places of interest is the Cellular Jail , built between the 1890s and 1906, where you can remember the former inmates and their prison conditions and also watch a film showing about the tribes of the Andaman Islands.

Infrastructure

In addition to the port and a large Indian Coast Guard base in the north of the city, Vir Savarkar Airport is in the south . From mid-2019 ^[obsolete] the capital is to be connected to the mainland of India on 13 connections with seaplanes .

Personalities

• Esow Alban (* 2001), track cyclist

Climate table

Port Blair
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     47   30th 23     23   31 23     68   32 24     78   33 25th     462   31 25th     452   30th 25th     423   30th 24     404   30th 24     523   29 24     282   31 24     168   31 25th     122   30th 24 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: www.tutiempo.net

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Port Blair Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 30.3 31.1 31.9 32.8 31.4 30.0 29.6 29.7 29.4 30.5 31.0 30.3 O 30.7 Min. Temperature (° C) 23.3 23.0 23.7 24.9 24.7 24.5 24.2 24.4 24.0 24.1 24.8 24.0 O 24.1 Precipitation ( mm ) 47.2 23.4 68.0 78.4 461.6 451.9 422.8 404.0 522.5 281.9 168.3 122.3 Σ 3,052.3 Source: www.tutiempo.net

Web links

Commons : Port Blair  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Basic Statistics 2013-14: Demography (PDF)
2. ^ Municipal area.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: ceoan.and.nic.in  
3. ↑ Baban Phaley: General Knowledge Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Sarswati Prakashan Publishing House. Nagpur / India without year, OCLC 245005622 , p. 9.
4. ↑ Jayant Dasgupta: Japanese in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Manas Publications. New Delhi 2002, ISBN 81-7049-138-X , pp. 27-28.
5. ↑ Port Blair Population Census 2011 , accessed July 20, 2018
6. ^ Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India set for UDAN ops. ch-aviation , January 10, 2019.