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Great Nicobar . it is a strange creation of nature, situated just in the mid-ocean, quiet close to the fierce ten degree channel and is also close to the international

Searoute. Lot of vessels take shelter in this harbour during emergencies, cyclones , etc., and many of the neighbouring  countries boats also came for paoching

and smuggling. sometimes even whales take shelter in this harbour after being troubles by the orgies often degree channel.

Nancowry refers both to a single island, and to the group of adjoining islands, that are a part of the Nicobar Islands chain, located in the northeast Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

The island itself is 67 km², and located at  approximately 160km south-southeast of Car Nicobar, the northernmost Nicobar island. Nanchowry, like the Nicobar islands generally, is under the sovereignty of the nation of India. It is also part of the Nicobar and Andaman Tribal Reserve Area, which bars non-native people from visiting or conducting business on the island without permission in hopes of preserving the threatened native communities that live there . As of 2001, the Indian census catalogued 1,111 persons living on Nanchowry island .

With Kamorta  Island, which lies just to the North, Nanchowry Island forms the "magnificent land-locked" Nanchowry Harbour , used by European sailors since at least the 1600s and described as "one of the safest natural harbours in the world" . The harbour was apparently used as a base for piracy; in 1868, the British Navy entered the harbour in some force, destroying suspected pirate ships .

The island, like many others in the Nicobar and Andaman islands, was severely affected by tsunamis generated by the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake. According to reports from the Andaman and Nicobar Inspector General of Police, S.B. Deol, the Nanchowry group islands were among the worst-hit islands in the chain, with thousands missing and presumed dead . Post-tsunami satellite photos  and government situation reports indicate that while portions of Nanchowry Island were affected, the adjoining islands of Katchall and Kamorta were more severely overrun. As of January 18, 2005, the government reported only 1 dead and 3 missing from Nancowry island, but 51 dead and 387 missing from Kamorta, and 345 dead and 4310 missing from Katchall .