Port Blair

[blair]

noun

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

Port Blair

/ blɛə /

noun

1. 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)

Example Sentences

In 2018, 26-year-old American John Allen Chau died when he illegally sailed from Port Blair, India, to the forbidden North Sentinel Islands.

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My best friend from college and her family had lived in Port Blair, the capital of the archipelago, for a decade and a half, but this was my first visit to the islands, where I had arrived on Christmas Eve.

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For a while, there was speculation that we might not get clearance to dock at Port Blair for safety reasons and might have to spend the night at anchor.

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After several hours of bobbing along in rough seas, we returned to Port Blair.

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Because Phoenix Bay had been closed following the morning's damage, we were taken to Chatham, another harbour in Port Blair.

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