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Little Andaman Island


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.2019.02.20.V1

Published:Feb. 2019

Visitors:2846       Data Files Downloaded:24      
Data Downloaded:5.35 MB      Citations:

Key Words:

Little Andaman Island,Andaman Islands,Andaman and Nicobar Islands,Bay of Bengal,Indian Ocean,data encyclopedia

Abstract:

The Little Andaman Island is located in southernmost of the Andaman Islands, the Bay of Bengal. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Its geo-location is 10°30′39″N-10°53′52″N, 92°22′18″E-92°35′52″E. Its area is 692.26 km², and the coastline is 196.30 km. The island is part of the Little Andaman Group. It is separated from Rutland Archipelago by the Duncan Passage at the north. 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 1.03 MB (Compressed to 437 KB in two files).

Foundation Item:

Chinese Academy of Sciences (2018)

Data Citation:

LIU Chuang, SHI Ruixiang, CHEN Lijun, SHEN Yan.Little Andaman Island[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2019.02.20.V1.

Data Product:

ID Data Name Data Size Operation
1 LittleAndamanIsland.kmz 162.05KB
2 LittleAndamanIslandshp.rar 275.51KB
Co-Sponsors

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Geographical Society of China

Parteners

Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in/for/with Developing Countries (PASTD)

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Digital Linchao GeoMuseum