Correct Answer - Option 4 : Dampier and Hodges
The correct answer is Dampier and Hodges.
- Sundarban, the largest delta in the world, consists of 10,200 sq km of Mangrove Forest.
- Spread over India (4200 sq km of Reserved Forest ) and Bangladesh (6000 sq km approx of Reserved Forest ).
- It is also the largest Mangrove Forest in the world.
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Dampier-Hodges line
- The line indicates the eco-region of Sundarbans in India.
- It is an imaginary line, passing through 24 Parganas South and North districts of Sundarbans.
- It indicates the northern-most limits of the estuarine zone affected by tidal fluctuations.
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Sir Daniel Hamilton
- He was a resident of Scotland who came to the Indian subcontinent back in the year 1880 and worked in Calcutta.
- Sir Hamilton worked towards removing barriers for the poor, colonized, or improved poverty struck district of the Bengal.
- He was engaged in exchanging his views with the great Rabindranath Tagore on the methodologies of village reconstruction.
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Major William Tolly
- He constructed the canal on Adi Ganga (a branch of Hooghly River) at his own cost.
- Thus making the hinterland of Districts of Bengal and Eastern Bengal and Assam connect with Port of Calcutta.
