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This view of Little Nicobar Island is part of a multitemporal composite of an ERS-1 SAR radar image acquired 21 December 1992 and ERS-2 image acquired 12 January 2005. The image is used to highlight the massive damage done to the west coasts of the Nicobar Islands during the December 2004 tsunami disaster, seen here in red.