Pamban Island
Pamban Island is an island located off the southeast coast of mainland India. It is separated from the island of Sri Lanka by the Palk strait, and has the Palk Bay in the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Gulf of Mannar in the Laccadive Sea to the west.Photo: Ravichandar84, CC BY 2.5 in.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in India
- Also known as: “Pāmban Island” and “Rameswaram Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rameshwaram Ramanathaswamy Temple and Rameswaram railway station.
Rameshwaram Ramanathaswamy Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Ssriram mt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ramanathaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva located on Rameswaram island in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga temples. Rameshwaram Ramanathaswamy Temple is situated 3½ km northeast of Pamban Island.
Rameswaram railway station
Station
Photo: Ppyoonus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rameswaram railway terminus is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It serves the town of Rameswaram, located in Ramanathapuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Rameswaram TV Tower
Tower
Photo: prince tigereye, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Rameswaram TV Tower is a free-standing tower that was built in 1995. Standing at 323 metres, it is the second tallest structure in India. The tower was used by Doordarshan for television broadcasting until it was phased out on 2022. Rameswaram TV Tower is situated 3 km northeast of Pamban Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rameswaram and Pamban.
Rameswaram
Photo: Attumm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rameswaram is a town on Pamban Island, in Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It's known for Ramanathaswamy Temple, a Hindu pilgrimage site with ornate corridors, huge sculpted pillars and sacred water tanks.
Pamban
Village
Photo: Maskaravivek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pamban is a town in the Rameswaram taluk of Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu. It is at the west edge of Pamban Island and is a popular fishing port. Pamban is situated 9 km west of Pamban Island.
Pamban Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Pamban Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Pamban Island” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “পামবন দ্বীপ”
- Catalan: “Illa de Pamban”
- Cebuano: “Pāmban Island”
- Chinese: “班本島”
- Dutch: “Pāmban Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پامبان”
- Estonian: “Pambani saar”
- Estonian: “Pāmbani saar”
- Estonian: “Rameswarami saar”
- French: “Pamban”
- German: “Insel Pamban”
- German: “Pamban Island”
- German: “Pamban”
- Greek: “Πάμπαν”
- Hindi: “रामेश्वरम द्वीप”
- Japanese: “パーンバン島”
- Malayalam: “പാമ്പൻ ദ്വീപ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rameshwaram”
- Persian: “جزیره پامبان”
- Spanish: “Isla Pamban”
- Spanish: “Pamban”
- Spanish: “Rameswaram”
- Spanish: “Rámeswaram”
- Swedish: “Pāmban Island”
- Tamil: “பாம்பன் தீவு”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ پامبان”
- Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ پامبان”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kundagal Channel and Kallaru Reef.
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