Nicobar Islands
Colonisation of the Nicobar Islands was a short-lived and unsuccessful attempt on the island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean colony of the Austrian Empire. The colony was established in 1778. This had previously been a Danish colony, and Austria established it as Denmark had abandoned its colony on the islands, although not its claim. However by 1783, due to a lack of support, the last colonists left.
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“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
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