What the records say
- When
- since Apr 1979
- Kind
- Territorial claim
- Coordinates
- 21.60° N, 89.15° E
- Names
- New Moore (South Talpatty) Island
- Region
- 5
- Censored at
- 2001-12
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
New Moor
Sandbar island in the Indian Ocean
South Talpatti, also known as New Moore and Purbasha Island, was a small uninhabited offshore sandbar island in the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta region. It emerged in the Bay of Bengal in the aftermath of the Bhola cyclone in November 1970, and disappeared around March 2010.
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The source
- ICOW Territorial Claims 1816–2001Issue Correlates of WarCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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