Campbell Bay (Great Nicobar)


Campbell Bay is a village in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located in the Great Nicobar tehsil. The island's Indira Point is famous for being the southernmost point of India.

Transport

One can reach Campbell Bay from Port Blair by Pawan Hans Helicopter service. Inter Island Boat from Port Blair is also available which usually travels via Little Andaman, Car Nicobar and Nancowry en route to Campbell Bay. MV Campbell Bay also operates once in a week from Port Blair to Campbell Bay.
Government is also constructing a 21 km road from Shashtri Nagar to Indira Point via a bridge on the Galathea river. The total length of the road from Zero Point to Indira point will be 56 km and it will completed within next few years. This area is protected by the Indian Coast Guard.
Galathea National Park and Lighthouse are the major attractions here.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census of India, Campbell Bay has 1608 households. The effective literacy rate is 86.28%.
TotalMaleFemale
Population573633622374
Children aged below 6 years692369323
Scheduled caste000
Scheduled tribe453256197
Literates435227081644
Workers 27072224483
Main workers 24172037380
Main workers: Cultivators382810
Main workers: Agricultural labourers21210
Main workers: Household industry workers752
Main workers: Other23511983368
Marginal workers 290187103
Marginal workers: Cultivators24159
Marginal workers: Agricultural labourers34259
Marginal workers: Household industry workers716
Marginal workers: Others22514679
Non-workers302911381891

National park

Campbell Bay National Park is a part of Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve. This national park is spread over 426 km2 in the northern part of Great Nicobar. The park reserve's flora includes tropical evergreen forest, tree fern, and orchids and fauna includes Crab-eating macaque, giant robber crab, megapode, and Nicobar pigeon. This comes along the basin side of Glatiya river. The capital of these islands is Port Blair, these Islands were named Swaraj Shahid Island by Netaji Subash Chandra bose.

INS Baaz

was inaugurated on 31 July 2012 by Admiral Nirmal Verma of Indian Navy. INS Baaz is a full-fledged "forward operating base" of the Indian Naval Air Arm at the very southernmost tip of the Andaman Nicobar Islands. The Naval Air Station Campbell Bay overlooking the six degree Channel, one of the most crucial shipping lanes of the world, will soon become India's eye over the Malacca strait and the Bay of Bengal.