island group
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About 270 species of birds are found in the territory; 14 of them are endemic, the majority to the Nicobar island group.
Land use in the island group is divided between arable land (with 12.9% of the area given to this) and other uses, which occupy the remaining 87.1%.
Amateur radio DXpeditions are sometimes conducted in the island group by amateur radio operators.
In 1988, an announcement made that 4,700 residents of the main island group would be resettled onto less-populated islands.
It has a total land area of convert, including satellite islands (but excluding the South Sandwich Islands which form a separate island group).
It is now used to refer to any island group or, sometimes, to a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.