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A coral island located on the north-eastern side of the Bay of Bengal, south of the island of St Martin's Island. It is located about 9 kilometers south of Teknaf of Cox's Bazar district and 8 km west of Myanmar coast in the mouth of Naf river. Local coconut is also known as coconut ginger, because it is available in plenty of coconut. It is a known name for the seafarers of Bangladesh. Famous writer, fame literary Humayun Ahmed's fame song called the Cinnamon Island by this the identity of this island increased further.
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It is not known when the first person identified this island. The first few Arab merchants named the island named Zinzira. Note that they used to rest on this island during the journey from Chittagong to Southeast Asia. By the time Chittagong and adjacent people knew this island as jinjira. In 1890, some Bengali and Rakhine people came to settle on this island. They were mainly fisheries. As far as it is known, settlement as the first resident 13 families were formed. They chose the northernmost island. In time, this island turned into a Bengali-dominated area. Already on this island were Kea and Jhawgah. Perhaps Bengali fishermen planted a lot of coconut trees on this island as a means of watering and exhaustion. In time, the entire island was once turned into a 'coconut tree' island. In this form, local residents started calling the northern part of the island as coconut ginger In the year 1900, the British Geo group adopted this island as part of British India. Instead of local names, they have the zeroes St. Martin's name is given by the name of Christian St. Martin. Then, gradually, to the people outside the region, the island became known as St. Martin.
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The area of St. Martin's Island is about 8 square kilometers long and north-south. The foundation of the three sides of this island is the rock that watered during tide and wakes up during the tide. If you catch them, its area will be approximately 10-15 sq km. The island is approximately 5.63 kilometers long north and south. The width of the island is somewhere 700 meters and somewhere 200 meters. On the east, south and west sides of the island, there are countless hailstorms to the far side of the sea. The mean height of St. Martin's Island from the sea level is 3.6 meters. About 10-15 kilometers of coral reefs are located in the west-north-west direction of St. Martins. Geographically it is divided into three parts. The northern part is called coconut jinzira or northern para. The Southern part is called the South Para and it is connected with its narrow-tailed area on the southeast. And the lowest part is known as galachipa. In the south of the island there are small islands of 100 to 500 square meters in area, which are locally known as the Shedadia or Siradia / Chhunder Island. This is a deserted island. Walking on the island during the tide. But the boat is needed during tide.
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The landscape of St. Martin's Island is mainly flat. But some sand dunes are seen. The main structure of this island is limestone. There is a swamp in the middle of the island, in the north para and the south para two districts. These are rich in sweet water and are helpful in crop production. There is some agricultural production in the island. However, it is much lower than the requirement. On the island of St Martin's Island, there are 66 species of coral, 1,887 species of snail-mussels, 1,53 species of marine algae, 1,257 species of Guptasis, 2,40 species of marine fish, 4 species of amphibians and 120 species of birds. Locally known as Paesala, Sea weeds or Algae is abundantly available in a kind of marine algae St. Martins. These are of different species, but Red Algae is the most popular worldwide. There are also 19 species of mammals. [2] Invertebrates include sponges, rock crabs, coconut shells, lobster etc. The fish contains fairy fish, butterflies fish, bowls, ranga ki, sui fish, red fish, flying fish etc. [2] The site is known as the location of the marine turtle green ocean cysts and the octopus of the oceanic species of tortillas.
