St. Martin's Island is a small island (area only 8 km
2) in
the northeastern part of the
Bay of
Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the
Cox's
Bazar-
Teknaf
peninsula, and forming the southernmost part of
Bangladesh.
There is a small adjoining island that is separated at high tide, called
Chhera
island. It is about 8 km west of the northwest coast of
Myanmar, at the
mouth of the
Naf
River. The first settlement started just 250 years ago by some Arabian
sailors who named the island ‘Zajira’. During
British
occupation the island was named St. Martin Island. The local names of the
island are "Narical Gingira", also spelled "Narikel
Jinjira/Jinjera", which means 'Coconut Island' in
Bengali,
and "Daruchini Dip". It is the only
coral
island in
Bangladesh.
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