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Option 3 : Andaman & Nicobar
The correct answer is Andaman & Nicobar.
- Andaman & Nicobar has over 300 islands and also a cellular jail.
- The Andaman Islands are an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal.
- These roughly 300 islands are known for their palm-lined, white-sand beaches, mangroves, and tropical rainforests.
- Duncan's passage separates Little Andaman from South Andaman.
- The territory’s capital is the city of Port Blair.
- THE BARREN AND NARCONDAM ISLANDS, north of Port Blair, are volcanic islands [these are the only active volcanoes in India.
- The saddle peak (737 m) in North Andaman is the highest peak.
- State Animal of Andaman is the dugong (sea mammal) really endemic to Indo-Pacific seacoast areas, especially to the Andaman Islands.
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- The cellular jail built by Britishers in the Andaman and Nicobar Island is known as Kala Pani.
- Cellular Jail was designed to check the exchange of ideas.
- Many famous activists like Batukeshwar Dutt, Yogendra Shukla, and V.D Savarkar were imprisoned here.
- Cellular Jail was declared a National Memorial on 11th February 1979.
- Since then, it has been protected by the Union Territory Administration of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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