Port Blair

[ blair ]

/ blɛər /

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noun

a seaport in and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on S Andaman.

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How to use Port Blair in a sentence

The whole place was in mourning on account of the terrible catastrophe which had happened at Port Blair.
Forty-one years in India|Frederick Sleigh Roberts
The same friend tells me he learnt at Port Blair that there were marriage restrictions on which great stress was laid.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon|Robert A. Sterndale
They were detained at Port Blair but a very short time, when they once more embarked for Moulmein.
Ralph Denham's Adventures in Burma|George Norway
The maximum velocity of the wind registered at Port Blair on the latter occasion was 111 miles.
In the Andamans and Nicobars|C. Boden Kloss

Didu is the only species utilised for the manufacture of tea-boxes at Port Blair.
In the Andamans and Nicobars|C. Boden Kloss

British Dictionary definitions for Port Blair

Port Blair

/ (blɛə) /

noun

the capital of the Indian Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a port on the SE coast of South Andaman Island: a former penal colony. Pop: 100 186 (2001)

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