Jose Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:56 PM:
«please, Fernandobab..... please do NOT place these Islands in the «Bay of Bengal. That they are NOT! « «These Islands with a negrito population - are NEXT to Indonesia and «Thailand.», commenting Fernando do Rego's «Andaman: as ilhas na Baia da Bengala que foram mais afectadas da India e onde ainda algumas ilhotas, desapareceram do mapa» (Andaman: the islands in the Bay of Bengal which were the most affected [region] of India, and where even some islets disappeared from the map). I wonder where Dr. Jose Colaco got the notion that the Andaman and Nicobar islands ARE NOT in the Bay of Bengal. The fact that they are some 500-odd miles from the Indonesian island of Sumatra and are practically adjoining the coastline of Thailand (and of Malaysia) is by no means impeditive of them falling in the Bay of Bengal. This is what Collier's Encyclopaedia has to say: «ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS, two chains of islands in the Bay of Bengal that together constitute a Union territory of India ...». What Jose could perhaps have said is that it is not true that the Andamans were the region of India most affected by the "maremoto" (not "mar-moto"), as there were - I think - far more dead, disappeared and injured people in the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh than in the U.T. of Andman and Nicobar. Jorge
