Minicoy Island
Minicoy Island is the most southern island of the Lakshadweep archipelago, in India. It is about 200 km from the coast of Kerala and is the second largest island in the archipelago.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ajmal Hussain PKH, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: atoll in India
- Also known as: “Minicoy” and “Minikoi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Minicoy Island Lighthouse.
Minicoy Island Lighthouse
Lighthouse
The Minicoy Island Lighthouse, which was established on 2 February 1885 at the southern end of the Minicoy Island in the Indian union territory of Lakshadweep during the British regime, is 49.5 metres in height and has now a range of 40 nautical miles it is built in brick masonry and has a lantern and gallery. Minicoy Island Lighthouse is situated 3 km west of Minicoy Island.
Minicoy Island
- Categories: atoll and landform
- Location: Lakshadweep, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Minicoy Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Minicoy Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة ملك”
- Arabic: “ماليكو”
- Armenian: “Մինիկոյ”
- Azerbaijani: “Minikoy adası”
- Belarusian: “Атол Мінікой”
- Belarusian: “Мінікой”
- Bengali: “মিনিকয়”
- Bishnupriya: “মলিক”
- Catalan: “Minicoi”
- Cebuano: “Minicoy Island”
- Chinese: “Minicoy”
- Chinese: “米尼科伊岛”
- Dhivehi: “މަލިކު”
- Dutch: “Minicoy”
- Estonian: “Minicoy saar”
- Estonian: “Minicoy”
- Finnish: “Minicoy”
- French: “Minicoy”
- German: “Minicoy”
- Hindi: “मलिक”
- Hindi: “मिनीकॉय”
- Hungarian: “Minicoy”
- Italian: “Isola di Minicoy”
- Italian: “Minicoy”
- Japanese: “マリク・アトル”
- Japanese: “ミニコイ島”
- Japanese: “ミニコイ諸島”
- Macedonian: “Малику”
- Macedonian: “Миникој”
- Malay: “Minicoy”
- Malayalam: “മലിക്കു”
- Malayalam: “മിനിക്കോയ്”
- Marathi: “मलिक”
- Marathi: “मलिकु”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Minicoy”
- Newari: “मलिक”
- Newari: “मालिकु”
- Ossetian: “Миникой”
- Panjabi: “ਮਿਨੀਕੋਏ ਦ੍ਵੀਪ”
- Persian: “مینیکوی”
- Polish: “Minicoy”
- Portuguese: “Minicoy”
- Russian: “Миникой”
- Spanish: “Maliku”
- Swedish: “Minicoy Island”
- Tamil: “மினிக்காய் தீவு”
- Urdu: “ملِک”
- Urdu: “منیکوئی”
- Vietnamese: “Minicoy”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Minicoy Island”. Photo: Ajmal Hussain PKH, CC BY-SA 3.0.