🌊 Important Channels – Quick Revision
🔹 6° Channel
➡️ Separates Great Nicobar (India) from Sumatra (Indonesia).
📌 Important maritime route between the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca.
🔹 8° Channel
➡️ Separates Minicoy/Lakshadweep (India) from the Maldives.
📌 Important for locating Lakshadweep and Maldives on the map.
🔹 9° Channel
➡️ Separates Minicoy from the rest of the Lakshadweep Islands.
📌 Helps distinguish Minicoy from the main Lakshadweep group.
🔹 10° Channel
➡️ Separates the Andaman Islands from the Nicobar Islands.
📌 A key geographical division within India's Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
🔹 11° Channel
➡️ Separates Amini Island from Cannanore (Kannur) Island in Lakshadweep.
📌 Useful for Lakshadweep map-based questions.
🔹 Duncan Passage
➡️ Separates South Andaman from Little Andaman.
📌 Important passage within the Andaman island group.
🔹 Coco Channel
➡️ Separates North Andaman from Coco Islands of Myanmar.
📌 Important for understanding India's maritime neighbourhood with Myanmar.
🧠 UPSC Trick:
6 → Nicobar–Sumatra
8 → Lakshadweep–Maldives
9 → Minicoy–Lakshadweep
10 → Andaman–Nicobar.
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