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THE ANDAMANESE PEOPLE BECAME EXTINCT AFTER BOA DEATH.

Boa was the oldest member of the Great Andamanese, some of the first descendants of early humans who migrated from Africa about 70,000 years ago.
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The Great Andamanese lived throughout most of the Great Andaman archipelago, the main group of islands in the Andaman Islands.

Boa lived through the horrors of the 2004 Asian tsunami, the Japanese occupation and diseases brought by colonisers in the 19th century. She died in 2012.
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She was born in northern Andamans and grew up in traditional society, learning to gather wild potatoes and hunt for wild pigs, turtles and fish. In 1970, the Indian Government moved the Great Andamanese people to the Strait Island near Port Blair.
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The Great Andamanese once numbered more than 5,000. But after more than 150 years of contact with colonisers and the diseases they brought with them, the Great Andamanese number dwindled until only Boa was left.
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She was moved to the Strait Island and lived in a concrete and tin hut provided by the government, survived on state food rations and a pension of £6.80.

Boa had no children and her husband died several years before her.
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She had nobody to speak to for a long time after she had been moved because nobody spoke her language.
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