Question

The largest southernmost single island in India is ________________.
A. Rameswaram island
B. Minicoy island
C. Car Nicobar island
D. Great Nicobar island

Answer 1

Hint: An island or islet is any portion of sub-continental land that is bounded by water. Very trivial islands such as evolving land structures on cays can be named islets, skerries, cays, or keys. An island in a watercourse or a lake atoll may be named an eyot or ait, and a tiny island off the shore may be named a holm.

Complete answer:
Great Nicobar is the southernmost and most gigantic of the Nicobar Islands of India, north of Sumatra. Great Nicobar Island was brutally distressed by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake-tsunami with numerous evacuations and was cut off from all external communication for more than a day. The island has numerous streams, counting the Alexandra, Amrit Kaur, Dagmar, and Galathea. Practically all streams drift in a southern or south-westerly direction, which is symptomatic of the overall slant of the land across the island. There are surging hills all over the island, with the chief assortment running in a north-south alignment. Mount Thuillier, which is a fragment of this variety, has the uppermost rise of any point in the Nicobars, at 642 m above sea level.

Thus, option (D) is correct.

Note: Indira Point is the appellation of the southernmost point of the Republic of India. It is sited on Great Nicobar Island in the Nicobar Islands, which are positioned in the eastern Indian Ocean at $6^\circ 45'10''{\text{N}}$ and $93^\circ 49'36''{\text{E}}$. This is not on the Indian landmass but in the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The name of the theme was altered from Pygmalion Point on October 18, 1985, in remembrance of Indira Gandhi.