{"id":354671,"date":"2026-01-23T18:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=354671"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:51:41","slug":"galathea-bay-pemmaya-bay-and-nanjappa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/galathea-bay-pemmaya-bay-and-nanjappa-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Galathea Bay, Pemmaya Bay, and Nanjappa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Great Nicobar Island mega infrastructure project has raised concerns after Tribal Council members alleged pressure to surrender ancestral lands in three bays.<\/p>\n<h2>About Galathea Bay, Pemmaya Bay, and Nanjappa Bay<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_354674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-354674\" style=\"width: 532px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-354674\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-TH-2.jpg?resize=532%2C238&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Galathea Bay, Pemmaya Bay, and Nanjappa Bay\" width=\"532\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-TH-2.jpg?resize=300%2C134&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-TH-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C458&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-TH-2.jpg?resize=768%2C343&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-TH-2.jpg?resize=1536%2C686&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-TH-2.jpg?resize=1568%2C701&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-TH-2.jpg?w=1788&amp;ssl=1 1788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-354674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; TH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location: Galathea Bay<\/strong> lies on the <strong>south-eastern coast of Great Nicobar Island<\/strong>, while <strong>Pemmaya Bay and Nanjappa Bay<\/strong> are located along the <strong>western coast of the island.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major tribes: <\/strong>These bays are traditional habitats of the <strong>Nicobarese<\/strong> and <strong>Shompen<\/strong> tribal communities.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Nicobarese<\/strong> are a largely <strong>settled<\/strong> community, while the <strong>Shompen<\/strong> are a <strong>semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer<\/strong> group living deep inside forests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biodiversity and ecology<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Great Nicobar Island<\/strong> is covered largely by rainforests and forms part of the <strong>Sundaland biodiversity hotspot<\/strong> extending to Southeast Asia.<\/li>\n<li>Galathea Bay is a <strong>major global nesting site of the endangered giant leatherback turtle<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>International Port: Galathea Bay<\/strong> is the proposed site of the <strong>International Container Transshipment Port (ICTP)<\/strong> under the <strong>Great Nicobar Island Development Project.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The port has a natural depth of more than <strong>20 m<\/strong> and was notified as <strong>India<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>s 13th major port in September 2024 and <\/strong>named as<strong>Kamarajar Port<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Issues:<\/strong> Parts of Galathea Bay, Pemmaya Bay, and Nanjappa Bay require <strong>diversion of forest land<\/strong> where tribal villages existed before the 2004 tsunami.\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>wildlife sanctuary<\/strong> in Galathea Bay was <strong>denotified<\/strong> earlier to facilitate the port project, even though the area was classified as <strong>CRZ-1A<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Environmental clearances are under <strong>challenge<\/strong> before the <strong>National Green Tribunal<\/strong>, while forest clearances are being heard in the <strong>Calcutta High Court<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Great Nicobar Island mega infrastructure project has raised concerns after Tribal Council members alleged pressure to surrender ancestral lands in three bays. About Galathea Bay, Pemmaya Bay, and Nanjappa Bay Location: Galathea Bay lies on the south-eastern coast of Great Nicobar Island, while Pemmaya Bay and Nanjappa Bay are located along the western&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/galathea-bay-pemmaya-bay-and-nanjappa-bay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Galathea Bay, Pemmaya Bay, and Nanjappa Bay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039,11211],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-354671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}