Baratang Island

Baratang Island is also called Ranchiwalas Island. At the end of the 19th century, the Ranchi city faces political upheaval. Many locals converted to Christianity by the missionaries and sought refugee. Realizing the prospect of Andaman and Nicobar Island Britishers sent them to Baratang Island to cultivate crops. The laborers from Ranchi settled there and made new habitat and set themselves as per the land and atmosphere. A lighthouse was commissioned in 1985 at the eastern entrance to the Andaman strait. Bartang, a forest area of Andaman and Nicobar, is little away from Port Blair.