දාගැබ තුනක් තිබෙන ඩෙල්ෆ්ට් දුපතේ සැගවුණ බෞද්ධ උරුමය | DELFT ISLAND JAFFNA | උරුමය සොයා | Urumayasoya

දාගැබ තුනක් තිබෙන ඩෙල්ෆ්ට් දුපතේ සැගවුණ බෞද්ධ උරුමය | DELFT ISLAND JAFFNA | උරුමය සොයා | Urumayasoya

Neduntheevu or Nedunthivu (Tamil: நெடுந்தீவு, romanized: Neṭuntīvu; Sinhala: ඩෙල්ෆ්ට්, romanized: Ḍelfṭ) (also known by its Dutch name Delft) is an island in the Palk Strait, northern Sri Lanka. This island is named as Delft in the Admiralty Chart unlike the other islands, whose names are Tamil. The island's area is 50 km2 and it is roughly oval-shaped. Its length is 8 km and its maximum width about 6 km.


Horses of Delft Island
Neduntheevu is a flat island surrounded by shallow waters and beaches of coral chunks and sand. It is home to a small population of Tamil people, mostly living in quiet compounds close to the northern coast.[1] The vegetation is of a semi-arid tropical type, with palmyra palms, dry shrubs and grasses that grow on the pale grey porous coralline soil. Papayas and bananas grow close to the local people's homes. In the western coast of the island there are remains of a 1000-year-old temple[citation needed] built by the Chola Dynasty,[citation needed] as well as the ruins of a Dutch colonial fort. The water is slightly brackish, and it is taken from shallow wells using buckets made from palmyra palm leaves.[2] A naval battle was fought off the coast of the island in 2008 during the Sri-Lankan Civil War. There are feral ponies on the island, descendants of forebears abandoned there in the Dutch period.
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