{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Nantha Kyun | native_name = နံသာကျွန်း | native_name_lang = | settlement_type = Island | image_skyline = File:Nantha Kyun.png | image_alt = | image_caption = Sky view of the island taken in 1945, showing only one prominent mudflow. Today, multiple mudflows are visible. | nickname = | motto = | image_seal = | image_map = | mapsize = | map_alt = | map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|18|3|45|N|94|5|25|E|display=inline}} | coordinates_footnotes = | seat_type = | seat = | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 2.3 | area_rank = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 168 | population_footnotes = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_rank = | population_density_km2 = | population_density_rank = | population_demonym = | population_note = | pushpin_map = Myanmar <!-- name of a location map as per Template:Location_map --> | pushpin_label_position = bottom <!-- position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none --> | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_mapsize = | pushpin_map_caption = | pushpin_map1 = | pushpin_label_position1 = | pushpin_map_alt1 = | pushpin_mapsize1 = | pushpin_map_caption1 = | timezone1 = Myanmar Standard Time | utc_offset1 = +6:30 | iso_code = | website = | footnotes = <!-- location ------------------> | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Myanmar <!-- the name of the country --> | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Rakhine | subdivision_type2 = | subdivision_name2 = <!-- etc., subdivision_type6 / subdivision_name6 --> }} '''Nantha Kyun''' is an island off the coast of Rakhine State, Burma. Due to the strong smell emitted by the island's mud volcano, the island was known to the British Empire during the British rule in Burma as '''Foul Island.''' This was the site of Operation Boston, a joint US-UK reconnaissance mission overseen by Lord Mountbatten and carried out by Operational Group Command and OSS Detachment 404 during World War II.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sacquety |first=Troy J. |date=2009 |title=Operation BOSTON: An OSS Combined Operation in the Indian Ocean |url=https://arsof-history.org/pdf/v5n1.pdf |website=arsof-history.org |series=Veritas Journal of Army Special Operations History PB 31-05-2 Vol. 5, No. 1 |pages=1-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260502192052/https://arsof-history.org/pdf/v5n1.pdf|archive-date=2 May 2026}}</ref>
==Geography== The island is {{convert|2.4|km}} long and {{convert|1.7|km}} wide. It is located roughly {{convert|30|km|0|abbr=on}} to the southwest of the Maw Yon headland in the Rakhine coast.<ref>GoogleEarth</ref>
Nantha Kyun rises to a height of {{convert|168|m}} and has a large active mud volcano in the middle. It is thickly wooded except on its western shores where the terrain is scarred between the crater and the shoreline.<ref>''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 India & Bay of Bengal. Enroute.'' National Geospatial-intelligence Agency (1 Feb 2007). p. 168</ref> [[File:Nantha_Kyun_side_view.png|center|thumb|630x630px|Side view of Nantha Kyun. Photograph captured by members of the Office of Strategic Services in 1945. The arrow points to the caldera of the mud volcano.]]
== Kyun Nantha Marine National Park == The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation designated 23,000 acres (comprising 781 acres of land and 22,219 acres of water) in Gwa Township, Thandwe District, Rakhine State, as the "Kyun Nantha Marine National Park" for biodiversity conservation. This designation, based on the Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Areas Law of 2018, was announced in Notification No. 50/2024 and took effect on 12 June 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-18 |title=MoNREC Designates 'Kyun Natha Marine National Park' – Global New Light of Myanmar |url=https://www.gnlm.com.mm/monrec-designates-kyun-natha-marine-national-park/ |access-date=2024-06-18 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240718233848/https://www.gnlm.com.mm/monrec-designates-kyun-natha-marine-national-park/|archive-date=18 July 2024}}</ref>
===Nearby islands=== *Unguan, located about {{convert|45|km}} to the NNE. Highest point {{convert|40|m}}.
==See also== *List of islands of Burma *List of protected areas of Myanmar
== References == {{reflist}}
{{Islands of Burma}}
Category:Islands of Myanmar Category:Rakhine State Category:Mud volcanoes
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