Subject: Goa and Anjediva
Date: Mar 13, 2004 @ 01:36
Author: bwhyte@unimelb.edu.au (bwhyte@...)
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Daman and Diu consist of Daman, Diu and, as part of Diuu, a small detached piece of territory a few miles east of Diu island.

Goa, formerly part of Goa/Daman/Diu, does include the small island of Anjediva, 15km south of the boundary with KArnataka, as can be seen on the following map. The island is often an inset of census of india maps of Goa too.

http://www.bombayproperty.com/goamap.html

The island is home to "four hundred year old Our Lady
of Brotas church" and appears to be of interest to the Indian navy (anything coastal does, I couldn't photograph the local lighthouse when in Kerela but was allowed to climb it. Weird.

news of 4 Feb 2004:
PILGRIMS AT ANJEDIVA CHURCH: Hundreds of Goan devotees planning to visit the
historic Anjediva island at the Navy's Sea Bird site off Karwar for the
feast of Nossa Senhora das Brotas Church on February 2 were aware of
restriction to their entry. Although devotees-for the first time in five
centuries-now had direct access to the island with the newly constructed
breakwater from the mainland to Anjediva, obstacles certainly came aplenty.
A three-hour wait in the hot sun outside the Navy gates to gain entry to the
island and an hour-long walk across the breakwater filled with rubble, were
some of them. About a hundred dejected Goan devotees returned home, without
entering the island. (Melvyn Misquita in Herald)

photo of church at
http://www.colaco.net/1/Anjadiva.htm


Dadra and Naga Haveli [ha VE' li, not HA' ve li] is of course two separate pieces a little inland from Daman.

Brendan
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