Duncan Passage is a strait in the Bay of Bengal. It is about 48 km (30 mi) wide; it separates Rutland Island (part of Great Andaman and South Andaman administrative division) to the north, and Little Andaman to the south. West of Duncan Passage is the Bay of Bengal; east is the Andaman Sea. It lies within the exclusive economic zone of India protected by the integrated tri-services Andaman and Nicobar Command of Indian Military.
| Duncan Passage | |
|---|---|
  Duncan Passage Location in the Bay of Bengal. | |
| Coordinates | 11°2′N 92°35′E / 11.033°N 92.583°E |
| Type | Channel |
| Part of | Indian Ocean |
It sits between The Sisters island off South Andaman Island and North Brother Island off Little Andaman with a minimum depth of 21.9 m.[1][2]
Manners Strait is the branch of Duncan Passage that lies between North Cinque Island and Rutland Island.
Islands along Duncan Passage
editSeveral small islands and islets lie along the passage. North to south, they are:
Nearby major channels and straits
editIn Andamans
edit- Cocos Strait
- Ten Degree Channel
- Duncan Passage
- Six Degree Channel[3]
Outside Andaman
editGallery
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Gulf of Mannar -
Cocos Strait, Duncan Passage -
Cocos Strait is at the northern end of Andaman Islands in red square -
Ten Degrees Channel -
Ten Degrees Channel, closeup -
Malacca Strait -
Singapore Strait -
Sunda Strait -
Lombok Strait -
References
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- ^ 2002, Sailing Directions (enroute) for India and the Bay of Bengal
- ^ Mohor Chakraborty and Tridib Chakraborti, 2020, India's Strategy in the South China Seabooks.
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- ^ "Sunda Islands". Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. John Everett-Heath. Oxford University Press 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Donald B. Freeman, The Straits of Malacca: Gateway Or Gauntlet?. McGill-Queen's Press, 2006.
- ^ a b The designaiton of routing measures in Sunda and Lombok Straits.
- ^ Susanto, R. Dwi; Leonid Mitnik; Quanan Zheng (December 2005). "Ocean Internal Waves Observed in the Lombok Strait" (PDF). Oceanography. 18 (4): 83. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2005.08. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2008.
- ^ India’s Strategic Dimensions in Malacca Strait By Vithiyapathy Purushothaman, 16 March 2015.