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'''South Brother Island''' is an uninhabited [[island]] in the [[Indian Ocean]], part of the [[Andaman Islands|Andaman Archipelago]]. It is located in the [[Duncan Passage]], about 9.5 [[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]].<br />
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The island is roughly bean-shaped, about 1800 [[metre|m]] by 630 m, with a broad bay on the north side. It is almost flat, thickly wooded, fringed by a narrow beach and surrounded by a reefs. The central part is depressed and becomes a lake in the rainy season.<ref name="portman"/> The island hosts a 1.24 [[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.today/20030825040128/http://www2.wii.gov.in/envis/envis_pa_network/page_andaman.htm |date=25 August 2003 }}''. Accessed on 2012-07-03.</ref><br />
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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; one explorer reports finding huts "with neat [[charpoy]]s of [[bamboo]]s" capable of holding 30 people. The island seemed to be their limit in disputes with the [[Great Andamanese people|Great Andamanese]].<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 tribes, around 1890 to 1930.<ref name="portman"/><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/20120805204050/http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/app-a/a-portman.htm |date=5 August 2012 }}''. Accessed on 2012-07-03.</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[North Brother Island, India]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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