Cinque Islands
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.2019.02.27.V1
Published:Feb. 2019
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Key Words：
Cinque Islands,Andaman Islands,Andaman and Nicobar Islands,Bay of Bengal,Indian Ocean,data encyclopedia
Abstract：
The Cinque Islands are part of the Little Andaman Group of India. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Islands lies to Bay of Bengal, and separated from Rutland Island only 2.5 km in its northwest. Its geo-location is 11°14′32″N-11°19′59″N, 92°41′14″E-92°43′26″E. There are only two islands in the Cinque Islands, North Cinque Island and South Cinque Island, with only 1.36-km distance between the two islands. The areas of the North Cinque Island and the South Cinque Island are 1.97 and 4.60 km², respectively, and coastlines of the two islands are 12.25 and 13.69 km, respectively. The Manners Strait is located between the North Cinque Island and the Rutland Island. The total area of the Cinque Islands is 6.58 km² and the coastline is 25.94 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 105 KB (Compressed to 43.7 KB in two files).
Foundation Item：
Chinese Academy of Sciences (2018)
Data Citation：
LIU Chuang, SHI Ruixiang, CHEN Lijun, SHEN Yan. Cinque Islands[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2019.02.27.V1.
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CinqueIslands.kmz |
11.64KB |
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CinqueIslandsshp.rar |
32.12KB |
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