St. Martin’s Island or Saint Martin’s Island

St. Martin Island is located in the bay of bengal, Bangladesh. St. Martin’s Island is relatively a very small island to the North-east side of Bay of Bengal, about 9 km away from the south of Cox’s Bazar, precisely from Teknaf peninsula. The popular local name of this coral island is actually ‘Narikel Jinjira’ or Coconut Island, and the name was kept after a popular British provincial gover­nor.St. Martin’s Island is one of the most popular travel places for sea lover.

St. Martin’s Island or Saint Martin’s Island is the only coral island in Bangladesh, and totally isolated from the main land. During 1890 to 1900, around 60 individuals started to live in the island, right now there are about 10000. Most of the island’s occupants are Muslimg, and live dependent on fishing.

St. Martin’s Island got about 8 sq km area, that decreases to near about 5 sq km while there remain under high tide. The primary island towards the north, Uttar Para, progressively becomes smaller a number of kms south­ward, to some extent where it really is approximately 100m wide.Specialy, 3 small islands which includes Zinjira, Gala­chira plus Ciradia are situated simply just south to the primary island. During low tide these are es­sentially considered as one island, attached to the main island with a narrow line of island.

There is one more island closer to the St. Martin’s island called by Chhera Dwip, sometimes it also considered as the part of St. Martin’s Island. Probably the most of the residents are Fisherman. Therefore, going to the St. Martin’s island is actually an adventure travel and also enjoyable too.