East Sister Island (Andaman Islands)
East Sister Island or Takoa-te is a small uninhabited island in the Andaman Archipelago, at the northern side of the Duncan Passage,[1] about 6 km southeast of Passage Island and 18 km north of North Brother.
The island is roughly rectangular, around 750 m long in the NE-SW direction and 550 m wide, and is mostly covered by forest; it has a beach on the NW side and a rocky shore on the three other sides. Its highest point is 76 m above sea level.[2]
East Sister and the smaller West Sister, located about 250 m to the southwest, comprise the group called The Sisters. It belongs to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Territory of India.
References
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- ^ US Hydrographic Office (1916) Bay of bengal Pilot, page 288. H.O. pub. 160, Government Printing Office.
- ^ Sailing Directions (Enroute), Pub. 173: India and the Bay of Bengal (PDF). Sailing Directions. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2017. p. 288.