Port Blair

American  

[blair] / blɛər /

noun

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

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Port Blair British  

/ 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)

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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

Port Blair was almost daily jolted by aftershocks, some of them strong enough to start rumours of fresh tsunamis, making scared people run to get to higher ground.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

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

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

Today Port Blair is more relaxed than many Indian cities of the same size, and the afternoon I spent there was warm and bright.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2022

See under names of islands Implements and Weapons, A., 184, 189; N., 243-245 Industries, A., 171, 172, 198-200, 339-341 Port Blair, 22, 198-200, 340, 341; N., 251, 252 Infant mortality, A., 192 Inhabitants.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden