We reached Pungro, a small town in northern Nagaland’s Kiphire district, late at night after covering about three and a half hundred kilometres on a dusty, winding mountain road. With no lodges available, the car driver took us to a government rest house. However, as foreigners from Bangladesh, we were told we needed permission from the zone’s additional district commissioner.
Why Andamanâs Barren Island, Home To Indiaâs Only Active Volcano, Is In News
by Swarajya Staff - May 7, 2021 05:31 AM
A plume of ash rises from Barren Island Volcano on 25 September 2010. (NASA)
Snapshot
Barren Island is home to Indiaâs only live volcano.
The island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar chain of islands, is located in the Andaman Sea, around 140 kilometres northeast of Port Blair, the capital of the Union Territory. The uninhabited 3-km-wide island is open to visitors with prior permission.
The volcano on the island, the only active volcano along a chain of volcanoes that runs from Indonesiaâs Sumatra in the south to Myanmar in the north, remained dormant for over 150 years before it started showing activity again in the year 1991. Since then, it has shown intermittent activity, most recently in 2018.