Barren Island
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Key facts
- Location
- Bay of Bengal
- Archipelago
- Andaman Islands
- Adjacent to
- Indian Ocean
- Major islands
- Barren Island
- Area
- 8.34 km (3.22 sq mi)
- Length
- 3.4 km (2.11 mi)
- Width
- 3.1 km (1.93 mi)
- Coastline
- 12.38 km (7.693 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 353 m (1158 ft)
- District
- North and Middle Andaman
- Island group
- Andaman Islands
- Island sub group
- East Volcano Islands
- Taluk
- Rangat Taluk
- Population
- Uninhabited (2017)
- Time zone
- IST ( UTC+5:30 )
- Telephone code
- 031927
- Iso code
- IN-AN-00
- Avg summer temperature
- 30.2 °C (86.4 °F)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- volcanic island
- Part of
- Andaman Islands
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 8
- Elevation
- 353
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Body of water
- Indian Ocean
- Location
- Bay of Bengal
- Image
- Ile Barren, 1995.jpg
- Width
- 2.9
- Length
- 3.5
Show 3 more facts
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Barren Island (Andaman Islands)
- different from
- Barren
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Encyclopedic overview
Barren Island is an uninhabited island in the Andaman Sea. It is the only confirmed active volcano in the Indian subcontinent, and the only active volcano along a chain of volcanoes from Sumatra to Myanmar. It is a part of the Indian Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and lies about 138 km (86 mi) northeast of the territory's capital, Port Blair.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barren Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.