Andaman Islands
About Andaman Islands
The Andaman Islands are an archipelago, made up of 200 islands, in the northeastern Indian Ocean about 130 km (81 mi) southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between the Bay of Bengal to the west and the Andaman Sea to the east. Most of the islands are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory of India, while the Coco Islands and Preparis Island are part of the Yangon Region of Myanmar.
On the show — 20 mentions total
There was another group called the Jurawas who were in the Andaman Islands and they saw the patterns of the waves changing and they had this ancient knowledge that knew that there was something that was a problem coming and so they could get away.
from No Such Thing As A Magnetic Skateboard, 2022-05-20 at 00:16:54 · read transcript
Other times Andaman Islands came up
I'm tall and handsome. Exactly. We also lie a lot in our culture, don't we? We too. Which culture do people say bus and track in, please? I appear to rule myself out of East and West. Have you heard of the Andaman Islands? Oh, yeah. Uncontacted tribes. They're my people. This is not, this is slightly different. Forget the buses in the track. If you're Japanese or Chinese, you would, more likely say, I'm so-and-so's sister, I'm so-and-so's daughter, I'm employed by so-and-so, I'm the friend of so-and-so, because it's all about like in relations.
No Such Thing As Chris Nibble, 2025-06-12 · listen
One of them is that given those three words most Westerners say train and bus because we think of things in categories but most people from China or Japan or Korea will say train and track because everything is relational so it's so for instance if you ask someone to describe themselves in the West they'll say oh I'm a QI researcher tall and handsome we also lie a lot in our culture don't we? Which culture do people say bus and track in please? I've had to rule myself out of East and West. Have you heard of the Andaman Islands? Oh yeah. Uncontacted tribes.
587: No Such Thing As Chris Nibble, 2025-06-12 · listen
Because it's about the Sentinelese people, and I don't know if that's how you pronounce it, but they're one of the few people in the world which we don't know anything about, because they're very hard to access, so they live in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, and they, whenever outsiders try and sort of penetrate their culture, then they get arrows shot at them, and they're repelled, so no one knows anything about them except.
18: No Such Thing As A Kilt On The Battlefield, 2014-07-18 · listen
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