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Munroe Island

Munroe Island is an inland island group located at the confluence of Ashtamudi Lake and the Kallada River, in Kollam district, Kerala, South India.

Munroe Island
Munroe Island · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Munroe Island is an inland island group located at the confluence of Ashtamudi Lake and the Kallada River, in Kollam district, Kerala, South India. It is a group of eight small islets comprising a total area of about 13.4 km2. The island, accessible by road, rail and inland water navigation, is about 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Kollam by road, 38 kilometres (24 mi) north from Paravur, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west from Kundara and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Karunagapally. As of the 2011 Indian census, the administrative village of Mundrothuruth has a total population of 9054, consisting of 4318 males and 4736 females. This island is also known as "Sinking Island of Kerala".

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Munroe Island

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Sasthamcotta Lake

    Sasthamcotta Lake or Sasthamkotta Lake, also categorized as a wetland, is the largest fresh water lake in Kerala, a state of India on the south of the West Coast. The lake is named after the ancient Sastha temple located on its bank.

    3.6 km · lake in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Elijah Orthodox Syrian Church, Koduvila

    St. Elijah Orthodox Syrian Church, Koduvila, is one of the ancient churches of the Malankara Orthodox Church.

    2 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dutch Church, Munroe Island

    The Dutch Church in Munroe Island, Kollam is one of the old churches in Kerala. The church was built by the Dutch in 1878.

    2.2 km · church in Kollam, India · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Munroe Island

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 67 km · Cochin (COK), 130 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 231 km
Stations
Munroturuttu railway station, 800 m
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Munroe Island
    68 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · ₹530–660
    GuideToday
  • Kochi → Munroe Island
    112 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · ₹840–1,050
    GuideToday
  • Coimbatore → Munroe Island
    226 km · quickest by road, 6h 8m · ₹2,050–2,570
    GuideToday
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Munroe Island

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Munroe Island. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    77 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    87 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    133 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    149 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    149 km

If you know how people move in Munroe Island – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Munroe Island

Munroe Island is 14 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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