North Andaman

North Andaman is part of the long island chain separating the Bay of Bengal from the Andaman Sea. Forests cover its hills and descend to a coast broken by bays and creeks. Indigenous Andamanese communities lived across the islands long before European settlement. In the 1790s the British East India Company moved a small colonial station to Port Cornwallis in the northern islands, but disease led to its abandonment in 1796.