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Kadmat Island, also known as Cardamom Island, is an island belonging to the Amindivi subgroup of islands of the Lakshadweep archipelago in India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Critical Habitat Information System of Kadmat Island )〕 ==Geography== The center most island of the Lakshadweep archipelago, in the shape of a tear drop, with area, is located on a coral reef. Kadmat village is the only inhabited village on the island. It is in the shape of a "spindle" with a length of . North to South it has a maximum width of about few hundred meters (about at the middle. Its southern end is the narrowest with a width of about . The island's topography is about above the mean sea level. Its surface formation consists of coral conglomerate overlying broken pieces of coral and coral sand. The lagoon of the island extends over a width of covering an area of and the water depth is shallow about . It has a shore line and has a sandy beach. The reef width is about . The tidal range lies between .〔 Kadmat Island is bounded by the Kavaratti Island to its northwest at a distance of . It is away from Kiltan Island. Amini Island is close to Kadmat. The northwestern part of the Pitti Bank formation is away on the southwest.〔 Kochi is away. The nearest airport to the island is on Agatti Island and flights operate from Cochin. From Agatti, it is a two and half hours ferry drive to Kadmat. Ferry services also operates from Cochin on the coast of Kerala but involves a journey of 16 hours.〔 The ecological setting of the island is composed of coral reef with seagrass, and marine turtles which nestle here. Keeping this aspect in view, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (India) has notified the island as a marine protected area to enable conservation of the island's animal, plant, or other type of organism, and other resources. The island experiences an average annual temperature in the range of . Rainfall occurs during the monsoon season from May to September with an average annual rainfall incidence of as per records of the nearby island of Amini. The maximum rainfall recorded in a day is . Humidity varies from 70-75%.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kadmat Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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