East Sister Island (Andaman Islands)

East Sister Island or Takoa-te is a small uninhabited island in the Andaman Archipelago, at the northern side of the Duncan Passage,[1] about 6 km southeast of Passage Island and 18 km north of North Brother.

The island is roughly rectangular, around 750 m long in the NE-SW direction and 550 m wide, and is mostly covered by forest; it has a beach on the NW side and a rocky shore on the three other sides.

Its highest point is 76 m above sea level.

[2] East Sister and the smaller West Sister, located about 250 m to the southwest, comprise the group called The Sisters.

It belongs to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Territory of India.