Southern India
Tamil Nadu
Kanniyakumari

Tortoise Rock

Tortoise Rock is an island in , . Tortoise Rock is situated nearby to the suburb , as well as near .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Vivekananda Rock Memorial and Kanniyakumari Terminus railway station.

Island
Photo: Sanchit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a monument and popular tourist attraction in , 's southernmost tip. The memorial stands on one of the two rocks located about 500 meters off mainland of Vavathurai, .

Railway station
Photo: Pranchiyettan, CC BY-SA 2.5 in.
Kanniyakumari railway station, is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Thiruvananthapuram railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway terminus of the Indian Railways serving the coastal town of in the state of .

Work of art
Photo: Darisi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , or Valluvar Statue, is a 41-metre-tall stone sculpture of Tamil poet and philosopher Valluvar, known as Thiruvalluvar, the author of the Thirukkural, an ancient Tamil work on morality.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kanyakumari and Agastheeswaram.

Photo: Hemanth kumar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Kanniyakumari is a town on the southernmost tip of the mainland of , in the state of . It is also known as Cape Comorin.

Village
is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the state of .

Village
is a village located in Kanyakumari district in the Indian state of . the word origin from Malayalam/Tamil meaning Palace. So means not only a village but also a Palace because 18th & the beginning of the 19th century village was ruled by Travancore Maharajas and they have constructed Guest Houses for them.

Tortoise Rock

Latitude
8.0774° or 8° 4′ 39″ north
Longitude
77.5512° or 77° 33′ 4″ east
Open location code
6JWV3HG2+XF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1207752705
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
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