South Sentinel Island

South Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands within the Bay of Bengal. It is 1.6 km long northeast to southwest and up to 1 km extensive. At simplest 1.61 km2, it's far a lot smaller than its counterpart North Sentinel Island and of considerably less interest. The island belongs to the Port Blair tehsil in the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, neighboring the unfriendly North Sentinel Island. South Sentinel is 26.5 kilometers west-northwest of Little Andaman Island in the south of the Andaman chain but 59.6 kilometers south of its counterpart North Sentinel Island.

From the limited statistics available it can be said that South Sentinel Island is a forested coral reef. From a magazine written within the 19th century, a Colonel Adcock who passed the island wrote raised a few feet and non-stop with the corals surrounding it. The island lies 186 km southwest from Port Blair. It lies right away south of the passage. The island is 44m high to the tops of the trees and degree crowned. Its appearance is a whole lot the identical on all bearings. A bank, as described with the aid of the 36m curve, surrounds the island and extends approximately 6 miles NW from it. Considerable depths exist in the channel between this island and Little Andaman Island.