[1] A lighthouse is situated 2 km inland from the point, at a place which screens it from the southern monsoon.
The anchorage is safe, roomy and completely landlocked, but large vessels are obliged to lie out at some distance from its mouth in an exposed roadstead.
[2] The capabilities of False Point as an anchorage remained long unknown, and it was only in 1860 that the port was opened.
Two navigable channels lead inland across the Mahanadi delta and connect the port with Cuttack city.
Its capabilities were first appreciated during the Orissa famine of 1866, when it afforded almost the only means by which supplies of rice could be thrown into the province.