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Encyclopedia Britannica



FALSE POINT

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 157 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FALSE POINT , a landlocked harbour in the Cuttack
district
  of Bengal, India. It was reported by the
famine
  commissioners in 1867 to be the best harbour on the
coast
  of India from the Hugli to Bombay. It derives its name from the circumstance that vessels proceeding up the Bay of Bengal frequently mistook it for Point Palmyras, a degree farther north. The anchorage is safe, roomy and completely landlocked, but large vessels are obliged to lie out at some distance from its mouth in an exposed roadstead. The capabilities of False Point as a harbour remained long unknown, and it was only in 186o that the port was opened. It was rapidly developed, owing to the construction of the
Orissa
  canals. Two navigable. channels lead inland across the Mahanadi
delta
 , and connect the port with Cuttack city. The
trade
  of False Point is chiefly with other Indian harbours, but a large export
trade
  in
rice
  and oil-seeds has sprung up with Mauritius, the French colonies and France. False Point is now a regular port of
call
  for Anglo-Indian
coasting
  steamers. Its capabilities were first appreciated during the
Orissa
 
famine
  of 1866, when it afforded almost the only means by which supplies of
rice
  could be thrown into the province. A lighthouse is situated a little to the
south
  of the anchorage, on the point which screens it from the southern monsoon.


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