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Little Andaman Group


LIU Chuang1SHI Ruixiang1CHEN Lijun2SHEN Yan1
1 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China2 National Geomatics Center of China,Beijing 100830,China

DOI:10.3974/geodb.2019.02.47.V1

Published:Feb. 2019

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Data Downloaded:3.22 MB      Citations:

Key Words:

Little Andaman Group,Andaman Islands,Andaman and Nicobar Islands,Indian Ocean,data encyclopedia

Abstract:

The Little Andaman Group is part of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is separated from the Bay of Bengal at its west, separated from Andaman Sea at its East, separated from Ritchie’s Archipelago at its northeast, and separated from Great Andaman Archipelago at the north. Its geo-location is 10°30′39″N-10°59′33″N, 92°22′18″E-92°40′10″E. Little Andaman Island and Brothers Islands are included in the Little Andaman Group. Among them, the biggest island is Little Andaman Island, with the area of 692.26 km², and the coastline of 196.30 km. The total area of the Islands is 694.39 km² and the coastline is 204.33 km. The dataset was developed based on the Google Earth and related maps and references. The dataset is consisted of 15 data files and archived in the .kmz and .shp data formats with the data size of 1.07 MB (Compressed to 453 KB in two files).

Foundation Item:

Chinese Academy of Sciences (2018)

Data Citation:

LIU Chuang, SHI Ruixiang, CHEN Lijun, SHEN Yan. Little Andaman Group[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2019.02.47.V1.

Data Product:

ID Data Name Data Size Operation
1 LittleAndamanGroup.kmz 167.33KB
2 LittleAndamanGroupshp.rar 286.64KB
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