Giant Robber Crabs

These are pictures taken more than a decade ago - in February 1998 during a visit to the small South Sentinel Island Wildlife Sanctuary which is part of the Andaman Group of islands. South Sentinel is only 1.6 sq. kms in area and is uninhabited by humans. The island is known to support a very good population of the Giant Robber Crabs; infact the island is the only one in the Andaman group that has any giant robber crabs at all. The beach on the island is also a very good nesting site for the Green Sea turtle. The island is said to have been badly hit by the earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 and not much is presently known of the status of all this wildlife here.