Location:

• State: Kerala
• Locality: Trivandrum: Kovalum Beach

Botany:

• Common name: Ketaki: A tree from Kerala, whose leaves are used extensively to make mats
• Botanical species: Pandanus fascicularis
• Botanical family : Pandanaceae [Screw pine]

Geography:

• Latitude: 8.38644 ° north of the Equator
• Longitude: 76.976122 ° east of the Prime Meridian
• Altitude: 4.2 metres above sea level

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Journey:

• Around the Corner
• Path : Coastal Kerala to the Southernmost point of India, to the granite hills of Andhra Pradesh
• Date photographed: 31.12.09

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