Water Sports complex

Water Sports complex :

This is a unique sports complex in whole India in its own kind. There are facilities for safe water sports such as Rowing Boats, Paddle Boats, Kayaks, Aqua-cycle, Aqua-glide, Bumper boats, etc., and Adventure water sports such as Water-skiing, Water scooters. Germini boats, Para-sailing, Sail boats, Wind-surfers, Speed boarts, Glass-bottom boarts, etc., There are Saline Water Swimming Pool, Nature-walk, Change Room, Food Plaza, also. There is a Memorial built to commemorate the Battle of Aberdeen, fought between the British and Andamane aborigines in May, 1859, in which may Andamanese died. There is an artificial water-fall nearby.Situated in the heart of the Port Blair town, this area is a beautiful picnic spot. A water sports facility is available in the still waters of the Dilthaman tank. The attractions are pedal boats and rowing boats. With the addition of water sports, this area has become a center for attraction especially for student groups and tourists.

Tourist Places - Cellular Jail

Cellular Jail(1896)

Cellular Jail,(National Memorial) From 1896 the construction of Cellular Jail was started and it was completed in 1906, connected to this were the three storey high seven wings with 698 isolated cells.This memorial, is a mute witness to the tortures meted out to the freedom fighters, who were incarcerated in this Jail. The Jail was constructed with seven wings, spreading out like a seven-petal flower. In its centre it had a tower with a turret. This is why it is called the Cellular Jail. The Jail, completed in the year 1906 acquired the name, 'cellular' because it is entirely made up of individual cells for the solitary confinement of the prisoners.
It originally was a seven pronged, puce coloured building with a Central Tower acting as its fulcrum and a massive structure comprising honey-comb like corridors. The building ws subsequently damaged and presently three out of seven prongs are intact. The Jail now a place of pilgrimage for all freedom loving people, has been declared a National Memorial.
The penal settlement established here by the British after the First War of Independence in 1857 was the beginning of the agonizing story of the massive and awful Jail at Viper Island followed b y the Cellular Jail. The patriots who raised their voice against the British Raj were sent to this jail, where many perished.
On 30th December, 1997 President of India honoured the living freedom fighters and widows of the freedom fighters, who were incarcerated in the Cellubar Jail . A commemorative coin and a postal stamp on Cellular Jail were also released on this occasion.
The saga of the heroic freedom struggle is brought alive in a moving Son-et-Lumiere, shows daily at 6.00 PM (Hindi) and 7.15 PM (English). Also there is a Museum and an Art Gallery which is open on all days except Monday from 9.00 AM to 12 Noon and 2.00 PM to 5.00 PM.Port Blair's only firm reminder of its gloomy past, the sturdy brick Cellular Jail or Kala Pani overlooks the sea from a small rise in the northeast of town. Seven wings originally radiated from the central tower out of which only three remain, the rest being destroyed by the Japanese.
Its dingy solitary cells were quite different and far worse than the dormitories in other prison blocks erected earlier. The prisoners were given various kind of tortures, and were kept in extremely grim conditions in the dirty and ill-ventilated cells where drinking water was limited to two glasses per day and the convicts were expected to wash in the rain as they worked, clearing forests and building prison quarters. Food was stored in vats where the rice and pulses became infested with worms; more than half the prison population died long before their twenty years' detention was up. Frequent executions took place in full view of the

Port Blair Information

Port Blair

It is the largest town in the Andaman Islands and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory of India. It lies on the east coast of South Andaman Island and is the main entry point to the islands.
It is also the headquarters for the Indian district of Andaman, and the local administrative sub-division (tehsil), which is also called Port Blair.
The city lies on the hilly southeastern coast of South Andaman Island. It is a market town with a sawmill, several local museums, and an airport. Pop. (2001) 99,984.

Named after The town is named for Archibald Blair of the British East India Company, who founded a nearby penal colony in 1789. Port Blair was founded by the British in 1858, the Cellular Jail surviving from this period

Port Blair
Geographic information : Climatic information
coordinates: 11°40′N 92°45′E)Population 2001 - 99,984.Port Blair Location: Port Blair is located in the south east of South Andaman Island.Rainfall in Port Blair: 318 cm. (July to September)Climate of Port Blair: Summer: 30 °C and 25 °CWinter: 24 °C - 18 °C