John Lawrence Island

John Lawrence Island is an uninhabited island in Ritchie's Archipelago in the Andamans, about 54 km north-east of Port Blair. It is named after Sir John Lawrence, Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869, and lies beside Henry Lawrence Island, named after his brother, as well as Peel and Wilson islands. Local boats run here from Port Blair and Havelock, subject to weather and sea conditions.

The island is long and narrow, so the beaches along three of its sides run for a good distance. Moist forest and mangroves cover it, and a narrow channel lined with dense mangroves separates it from Henry Lawrence Island. In November 1844 a cyclone drove two British ships, the Briton and the Runnymede, ashore here; of the roughly 630 people aboard, only one died in the wrecking itself, and all the survivors had been rescued by January 1845.