Idyllic
St Martin’s Island is the Bangladesh’s only coral island and its beaches do
actually match the hype.
It is about 9 km south of the
angle of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and forming the southernmost part of
Bangladesh. It is about 8 km west of the northwest coast of Myanmar, at the
mouth of the Naf River. Local name of the island is "Narical
Gingira", also spelled "Narikel Jinjira/Jinjera", that means
'Coconut Island' in Bengali.
