False Point

20°21′25″N 86°47′56″E / 20.35694°N 86.79889°E / 20.35694; 86.79889

False Point is located in India
False Point
False Point
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Location of False Point in the Indian coast

False Point is a low headland in the Bay of Bengal. It is located in the Kendrapara district of Odisha, India. The point derives its name from the circumstance that vessels proceeding up the Bay of Bengal frequently mistook it for Point Palmyras, less than a degree farther north.[1] A lighthouse is situated 2 km inland from the point, at a place which screens it from the southern monsoon.[2][3]

  1. ^ Hugh Murray, James Wilson, Robert Kaye Greville, Robert Jameson, Whitelaw Ainslie, William Wallace, and Clarence Dalrymple, Historical and descriptive account of British India (1843)
  2. ^ Chisholm 1911.
  3. ^ False Point (Batighar) Lighthouse - Wikimapia