Question

India’s southernmost point is known as :
(1) Lakshadweep
(2) Kanyakumari
(3) Indira Point
(4) Port Blair

Answer 1

Answer: (3)Indira point, Indira Point is one of the most popular villages in the Nicobar district at Great Nicobar Island of Andaman as well as the Nicobar Islands, India.

Of course, it is located in the Great Nicobar tehsil and the location of the southernmost point of India's territory.

Even Indira Point was named as Pygmalion Point in the past time and Swami Vivekananda previously who had also visited Kanyakumari even visited this point.

Answer 2

3) Indira Point

• Point Indira[1], the southernmost point of Indian territory, is a village in the Nicobar region of the Greater Nicobar Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India.
• Located in Greater Nicobar Tehsil.
• The Andaman and Nicobar Islands consisted of 572 islands at the confluence of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea , 37 of which are inhabited .
• This region is located about 150 kms north of Aceh , Indonesia , and is separated from Thailand and Myanmar by the Andaman Sea .
• It consists of two groups of islands , the Andaman (some ) and Nicobar , separated by a 150 km wide strait (10 ° north latitude ) , to the north of which is the Andaman Strait , and to the south is the Nicobar Strait (approximately km ) .
• The Andaman Sea is to the east and the Bay of Bengal to the west .
• The chain of islands is considered an underwater continuation of the Arakan Mountains .
• The southernmost point of the Commonwealth of India , Indira Point , was flooded by the 2004 tsunami .
• The lighthouse at Cape Indira , the southernmost tip of Great Nicobar Island , which was on a plateau before the earthquake , is now flooded .
• The drawdown is about 3-4 m .

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