Rivers is known as the Northern Circars and the southern part lies between Krishna and Kaveri rivers is called Coromandal coast. Among the backwater lakes of this coast, lake Chilka (Odisha) is the largest lake in India located to the southwest of the Mahanadi Delta, the Kolleru Lake which lies between the deltas of Godavari and Krishna and the Pulicat Lake lies in the border of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are the well known lakes in the east coastal plain. The Islands India has two major island groups namely Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep. The former group consists of islands and are located in Bay of Bengal and the latter one has islands and are located in Arabian Sea.
The islands of Andaman and Nicobar are largely India – Location, Relief and Drainage tectonic and volcanic origin. India’s only active volcano is found on Barren Island in Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands. a) Andaman and Nicobar Islands These islands are located in an elevated portion of the submarine mountains. Since these islands lie close to the equator, the climate remains hot and wet throughout the year and has dense forests.
The area of the island group is about , sq.km. The entire group of islands is divided into two. They are Andaman in the north and the Nicobar in the south. These island groups are of great strategic importance for the country.
Port Blair is the administrative capital of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. The Ten Degree Channel separates Andaman from Nicobar group. The southernmost tip, the Indira Point is a part of Nicobar Island. b) Lakshadweep Islands This is a small group of coral islands located off the west coast of India.
It covers an area of sq. km. Kavaratti is its administrative capital. Lakshadweep islands are separated from the Maldive Islands by the Eight Degree Channel.
The uninhabited “ Pitt Island ” of this group has a bird sanctuary. Earlier, it had three divisions namely Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi. It was named