Kakinada Bay

Kakinada Bay lies off the Andhra coast near the mouths of the Godavari. The island of Krachchu Lanka, also called Hope Island, stands offshore in the Bay of Bengal. To the south, the Godavari country around Pallakolu produced cotton cloth for the Coromandel trade under the rulers of Golconda. Dutch merchants established a factory at Pallakolu in 1613, dealing in textiles, oil and timber from this coastal region.