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{{Infobox islands
| name = North Brother Island
| map = India Andaman and Nicobar Islands#Bay of Bengal
| map_caption = Location in the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] and in the [[Bay of Bengal]]
| coordinates = {{coord|10.988|92.664|type:isle_region:IN-AN|display=inline,title}}
| etymology =
| location = [[Bay of Bengal]]
| archipelago = [[Andaman Islands]]
| waterbody = [[Indian Ocean]]
}}
'''North Brother Island''' is an [[Desert island|uninhabited]] [[island]] in the [[Indian Ocean]], part of the [[Andaman Islands|Andaman Archipelago]]. It is located in the [[Duncan Passage]], about 19 [[km|kilometre]] northeast of [[Little Andaman Island]]. It is part of the [[South Andaman district]] of the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]], a [[Union Territory]] of [[India]].

The island is nearly round, about 1.1 km across. It is almost flat, thickly wooded except in its central part, fringed by a narrow beach and surrounded by a reef all around. The central part is depressed and becomes a lake in the rainy season.<ref name="portman"/> A lighthouse tower was erected during 1992-93 and commissioned on 17 April 1993.<ref name="indgov1">Indian Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships, ''[http://dgllnoida.gov.in/anthaman/NORTH%20BROTHER%20ISLAND.html Welcome to NORTH BROTHER ISLAND LIGHT HOUSE]''. Accessed on 2012-07-03.</ref> The island hosts a 0.75 [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]] [[wildlife sanctuary]], established 1987.<ref name="indgov2">Government of India, ''[http://www2.wii.gov.in/envis/envis_pa_network/page_andaman.htm Directory of Wildlife Protected Areas in India] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20030825040128/http://www2.wii.gov.in/envis/envis_pa_network/page_andaman.htm |date=25 August 2003 }}''. Accessed on 2012-07-03.</ref>

By the end of the 19th century, the island was occasionally visited by the [[Onge people|Onge]] of Little Andaman to catch [[sea turtle]]s.<ref name="portman">M. V. Portman (1899), ''[http://booksnow2.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca2/22/historyofourrela02portuoft/historyofourrela02portuoft_bw.pdf A history of our Relations with the Andamanese]'', Volume II. Office of the Government Printing, Calcutta, India.</ref>
It has been conjectured to be part of the route for the Onge expansion into south [[Great Andaman Island]] in the wake of the [[Great Andamanese people|Great Andamanese]] tribes, around 1890 to 1930.<ref name="weber">George Weber (~2009), ''[http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter8/text8.htm The Tribes]''. Chapter 8 in ''[http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/text-group-BodyChapters.htm The Andamanese] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724070402/http://andaman.org/BOOK/text-group-BodyChapters.htm |date=24 July 2013 }}''. Accessed on 2012-07-03.</ref>

==See also==

* [[South Brother Island, India]]

==References==
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[[Category:Islands of South Andaman district]]
[[Category:Uninhabited islands of India]]

North Brother Island (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) - Revision history

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