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andaman islands

n. A group of islands in the Bay of Bengal.

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Andaman Islands

The Andaman Islands (अंदमान द्वीप समूह) form an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal between India, to the west, and Myanmar, to the north and east. Most are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India, while a small number in the north of the archipelago, including the Coco Islands, belong to Myanmar.

The Andaman Islands are home to the Sentinelese people, who have had no contact with any other people.

Usage examples of "andaman islands".

Females of the Wimbu tribe of the Andaman Islands pierce their labia and dangle strings of cowry shells from them.

The varied landscape afforded by the Andaman Islands was soon passed, however, and the Rangoon rapidly approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access to the China seas.

He and Papa were in command of the troops at the Andaman Islands, so they were thrown a great deal together.

This conclusion is supported by genetic relationships between modern Australians, New Guineans, and Asians, and by the survival today of a few populations of somewhat similar physical appearance in the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, and Andaman Islands off Myanmar.

A month of that voyage, from May the 15th to June the 12th, I squandered at the Andaman Islands near Malay: for that any old Chinaman should be alive in Pekin commenced to appear the queerest whimsey that ever entered a head.

Also, all the anthropologists in the world do not converge on the Andaman Islands because the fish net has just been invented there.

Women of the San population native to southern Africa (the so-called Bushmen and Hottentots) and women of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal accumulate fat in the buttocks, producing the condition known as steatopy-gia.

I know well that in certain countries, particularly in the Andaman Islands, the negroes never hesitate to attack them with a dagger in one hand and a running noose in the other.

Great Caesar's ghost manages as best it can with the syphilitic meat of a Pygmy widow in the Andaman Islands.