Kiltan
Encyclopedia
Kiltan Island is a coral
island belonging to the Amindivi Subgroup of islands of the Lakshadweep
archipelago
in India
. It is located 47 km to the northeast of Amini Island and 37 km to the southeast of Chetlat Island
. The reef and lagoon are located to the west of the island and the total length of the dry land area is 3.2 km.
and Ceylon in the past.
Coral
Corals are marine animals in class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual "polyps". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.A coral "head" is a colony of...
island belonging to the Amindivi Subgroup of islands of the Lakshadweep
Lakshadweep
Lakshadweep , formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands, is a group of islands in the Laccadive Sea, 200 to 440 km off the coast of the South West Indian state of Kerala...
archipelago
Archipelago
An archipelago , sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago...
in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It is located 47 km to the northeast of Amini Island and 37 km to the southeast of Chetlat Island
Chetlat Island
Chetlat Island is a coral island belonging to the Amindivi Subgroup of islands of the Lakshadweep archipelago in India. It is located 37 km to the northwest of Kiltan Island...
. The reef and lagoon are located to the west of the island and the total length of the dry land area is 3.2 km.
Population
Like in Amini and Kadmat, most people from Kiltan originally belonged to the Melacheri caste. Local history says that the island was part of an international trade route between the Persian GulfPersian Gulf
The Persian Gulf, in Southwest Asia, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.The Persian Gulf was the focus of the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers...
and Ceylon in the past.
External links
- Hydrographic Description (Indian Ocean Pilot)
- Lagoon sizes
- Kiltan - Geographical information
- Kiltān - Oceandots
- List of Atolls
- An ornithological expedition to the Lakshadweep archipelago
- Sources towards a history of the Laccadive Islands
- FAO - An analysis of the carrying Capacity of Lakshadweep Coral Reefs