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Great Nicobar Island Holiday Trip

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Great Nicobar Island Great Nicobar is the southernmost and largest of the Nicobar Islands of India, north of Sumatra . Great Nicobar Torism places ---- Indira Point --- Indira Point or Pygmalion Point is a village in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India . It is located in the Great Nicobar tehsil. It is the location of the southernmost point of India's territory.  The Indira Point lighthouse was commissioned into service on 30 April 1972. Located 500 kilometres north of the epicenter of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the southernmost tip subsided 4.25 metres after the earthquake, and many of the inhabitants went missing in the tsunami that followed. Sixteen to twenty families living next to the lighthouse and four scientists studying leatherback sea turtles were lost. Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve --- The Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve encompasses a large part of the island of Great Nicobar, the largest of the N...