->Path slopu: Added template {{Ernakulam district}} (via WP:JWB)

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Added template {{Ernakulam district}} (via WP:JWB)

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{{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}}
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[[File:Indian Navy cyclists en route to setting a new national record for nonstop cycling.jpg|thumb|Cycling race]]
[[File:Honor guard at INS Venduruthy.jpg|thumb|Naval Station at Venduruthy]]

'''Venduruthy''' is a small island in [[Kochi (India)|Kochi]], [[India]]. It is now a part of the greater [[Willingdon Island]]. The isolated island is approachable only from the [[Ernakulam]] backwater channel. It boasted of two edifices-the Roman Catholic Church of [[Saint Peter]] and [[Saint Paul (apostle)|Saint Paul]], it was built by the early [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] settlers in the 16th century.

In 1925 when the late [[Marquis of Willingdon]] was Governor of [[Madras Province]], the question of reclaiming this boggy [[marshland]] arose in Parliament and after many heated debates, reclamation was put into operation, lasting over a period of twenty years, eventually producing an island of no mean size.

Black heavy [[clay silt]] was scoured from the channel bed by the [[dredger]] [[Lord Willingdon]] and deposited in vast quantities upon the site, whilst around the perimeter a strong four-foot stone wall was constructed as a safeguard against inroads from the sea. Trees were planted along the coast to keep the soil firm. Within a decade the island which is now named Willingdon Island came into being. The Cochin Port Trust (Madras), commandeered the areas fringing the Mattancherry Channel north-west of the island and built fine buildings and a solid [[wharf]]. The rest of the land lay open with an abundance of grass and [[shrubbery]] growing in great profusion [https://web.archive.org/web/20120207204637/http://mod.nic.in/samachar/dec15-02/html/ch13.htm].

An Indian [[Naval Training Establishment]], [[INS Venduruthy]] has been named after it. Two important defense schools at Venduruthy are—the Gunnery School and the Navigation and Direction School.

==References==
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{{Ernakulam district}}
[[Category:Villages in Ernakulam district]]
[[Category:Islands of Kerala]]

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->Path slopu: Added template {{Ernakulam district}} (via WP:JWB)