Strait Island

Strait Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The island lies 63 km north from Port Blair. Strait Island is a tribal reservation. The reservation for the Great Andamanese, one of the indigenous humans of the Andaman Islands, changed into built and is controlled with the aid of the Andaman management. The Andamanese agreement was built like a model village in India.

The Great Andamanese settlement became built with concrete houses in rows. The different half is occupied by way of welfare personnel and police quarters. There is a college for children and a small dispensary for number one health care. There is a lighthouse at the pinnacle of the tallest hill on the island, established 1983. Strait Island is a small island placed 6 km east of Baratang Island, Great Andaman, within the Diligent Strait that separates Great Andaman from Ritchie's Archipelago. The island belongs to the East Baratang Group and lies east of Colebrook Island. The island is comma-formed, and very mush forested.