A Correspondent :
Saint Martin’s is the lone coral island of the country. The number of tourists visiting there are in rising trends day by day. The vicinity of the beautiful island is being polluted by the thrown out wastes of the tourists.
In the given context, 94 sacks of plastic wastes weighing 555 Kgs have been cleared off by the tourists. St. Martin’s Islan is a small island in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and forming the southernmost part of Bangladesh.
There is a small adjoining island that is separated at high tide, called Chera Dwip. It is about 8 kilometres west of the northwest coast of Myanmar, at the mouth of the Naf River. The tourists are the members of a Facebook group titled Travelers of Bangladesh (TOB).
Earlier in 2018, a total of 140 kgs of plastic wastes were cleared off by 55 members of the TOB group. The travelers set off their journey from Dhaka on October 3. They returned to Dhaka on October 6 after carrying out their voluntary cleanliness drive at the coral island.
The island used to belong to Myanmar. After India and Myanmar got independence from Britain, the island got annexed into India. The first settlement started 250 years ago by Arabian sailors who named the island ‘Jazeera’.
During British occupation the island was named after the then Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram Mr. Martin as St. Martin Island.The local names of the island are “Narikel jinjira”[4] which means ‘Coconut Island’ in Bengali, and “Daruchini Dwip” which means “Cinnamon island” in Bengali. It is the only coral island in Bangladesh.
Saint Martin’s is the lone coral island of the country. The number of tourists visiting there are in rising trends day by day. The vicinity of the beautiful island is being polluted by the thrown out wastes of the tourists.
In the given context, 94 sacks of plastic wastes weighing 555 Kgs have been cleared off by the tourists. St. Martin’s Islan is a small island in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and forming the southernmost part of Bangladesh.
There is a small adjoining island that is separated at high tide, called Chera Dwip. It is about 8 kilometres west of the northwest coast of Myanmar, at the mouth of the Naf River. The tourists are the members of a Facebook group titled Travelers of Bangladesh (TOB).
Earlier in 2018, a total of 140 kgs of plastic wastes were cleared off by 55 members of the TOB group. The travelers set off their journey from Dhaka on October 3. They returned to Dhaka on October 6 after carrying out their voluntary cleanliness drive at the coral island.
The island used to belong to Myanmar. After India and Myanmar got independence from Britain, the island got annexed into India. The first settlement started 250 years ago by Arabian sailors who named the island ‘Jazeera’.
During British occupation the island was named after the then Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram Mr. Martin as St. Martin Island.The local names of the island are “Narikel jinjira”[4] which means ‘Coconut Island’ in Bengali, and “Daruchini Dwip” which means “Cinnamon island” in Bengali. It is the only coral island in Bangladesh.
