{"id":18941,"date":"2024-01-04T04:40:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T23:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18941"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:44:27","slug":"kavaratti-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kavaratti-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Kavaratti Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Kavaratti Island<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kavaratti is the\u00a0capital of Lakshadweep (smallest Union Territory of India) and its most developed island.<\/li>\n<li>It lies\u00a0360 km of the coast of the State of Kerala.<\/li>\n<li>It is located in the\u00a0centre of the Lakshadweep archipelago. It is located\u00a0between Agatti Island\u00a0on the west\u00a0and Andrott Island\u00a0on the east.<\/li>\n<li>It has an\u00a0area of 4.22 sq km. The maximum length of the island is 5.8 km, and width is 1.6 km.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The island is 2 to 5 m above the mean sea level on the western side and 2 to 3 m on the eastern side.<\/li>\n<li>There is a\u00a0shallow lagoon on the western side of the island, and\u00a0coconut palms grow\u00a0on the northern side.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The island is\u00a0home to 12 atolls, five\u00a0submerged banks, and three\u00a0coral reefs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Strangely, Kavaratti\u00a0has a small inland lake at its northern end.<\/li>\n<li>Kavaratti town is\u00a0noted for the carved wooden pillars\u00a0and roofs of its mosques and the carved stones of its graveyards.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has the\u00a0maximum percentage of non\u2013islanders as residents.<\/li>\n<li>Languages Spoken: Malayalam and Mahl<\/li>\n<li>Karavatti\u00a0has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city\u00a0under the flagship Smart Cities Mission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an atoll?<\/h3>\n<p>An atoll is a ring of land surrounding a pool of water called a lagoon. This kind of island forms from a volcanic island circled by a coral reef.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latestly.com\/socially\/india\/news\/pm-narendra-modi-arrives-in-kavaratti-to-inaugurate-lay-foundation-for-development-projects-watch-video-5667318.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Narendra Modi Arrives in Kavaratti To Inaugurate, Lay Foundation for Development Projects (Watch Video)<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kavaratti is the capital of Lakshadweep (smallest Union Territory of India) and its most developed island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}