Andaman
Americanadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Anthropologist Anstice Justin, 71, took part in the government's limited contact missions to the restricted North Sentinel island in the Andaman Sea between 1986 and 2004.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Andaman police chief HGS Dhaliwal said his officers were doing everything possible to protect the island from outsiders, but Justin warned that social media–driven publicity seekers were increasingly difficult to deter.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Although the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been studied for decades, many parts of their forests remain difficult to access, and some groups of animals are still poorly documented.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2025
On 7 May, the refugees said they were taken to Hindon airport, just east of Delhi, where they boarded planes to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an Indian territory in the Bay of Bengal.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
Only on the remote Andaman Islands do languages unrelated to the South Chinese language families persist—the last linguistic survivors of what must have been hundreds of now extinct aboriginal Southeast Asian languages.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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