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Chatham Saw Mill
🏛️ Historical📍 Heritage📍 Museum

Chatham Saw Mill

Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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Overview

One of Asia's oldest and largest sawmills on Chatham Island, with a forest museum and a bomb-crater relic of a WWII Japanese air raid.

Why visit: Colonial-era timber heritage and a WWII bomb pit.

History: Established 1883 to process the islands' hardwoods; bombed by Japan in 1942.

Things to do
  • ›Old sawmill
  • ›Forest museum
  • ›WWII bomb pit
  • ›Timber gallery
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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–May

Entry fee

₹10–50

Est. budget

₹100–300

Duration

1–2 hrs

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