Nantha Kyun Island

Nanthar Island lies off the Arakan coast near the mouths of the Mayu, Kaladan and Lemyo rivers. It is a low island of sandbanks, mangrove forest and intertidal mudflats, shaped by the river sediment and the ebb and flow of the Bay of Bengal. At low tide broad flats emerge around the island, providing feeding grounds for shorebirds. Its channels and sheltered margins belong to a larger estuarine landscape between river and sea.