Port Blair (Sri Vijaya Puram)

Why this icon The Andamans hold some of India's most important sea-turtle nesting beaches. Source: seaturtlesofindia.org

Zostel

The story

In the clear shallows off the Andamans, a green sea turtle glides up close past the camera over the seagrass and the reef, rising to breathe, while a traveller on scuba hangs back to watch; above the surface a ferry crosses toward low green islands.

Why this picture

The green sea turtle is the Andamans' commonest nesting turtle: it glides over the fringing reefs and grazes the seagrass, rising now and then to breathe. The reefs of Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, Jolly Buoy and Swaraj Dweep (Havelock) are dived and snorkelled in the calm, clear dry season, December to April; clownfish keep to their anemones, and ferries run between Port Blair and the islands.

The sky wears Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

A school of fish streams right across the reef under the surface; the water's rows run, each its own way; the diver's fins kick and bubbles rise; the seagrass sways; the clownfish darts from its anemone; the ferry crosses; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Sky #9CDCF9

Lagoon #34C2D7

Ocean #0072BC

Port Blair takes Lagoon #34C2D7, one of the three Waters colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Port Blair

A second scene: another true moment at Port Blair, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

Night kayaking off Havelock: on the dark water by the mangroves a traveller rests the paddle in a kayak, close by a green sea turtle comes up to breathe and the plankton round it lights up in points and rings of blue, and the ferry lies lit at the far jetty under a low moon and the stars.

Why this moment

The Zostel Andaman guide and our own Port Blair maps name night kayaking at Havelock (Swaraj Dweep) for the blue glow of bioluminescent plankton that lights up wherever a paddle or a swimming animal stirs the water, on dark nights along the mangrove shore. Green sea turtles feed in the islands' shallows and surface to breathe; the inter-island ferries lie at Havelock's jetty overnight.

The motion

A bank of night cloud crosses the sky over the moon; the sea's rows run; rings of light spread round the turtle and drip off the paddle; the moon's rings turn and the stars twinkle; the mangroves sway. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Port Blair in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Port Blair, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

An inter-island ferryOf the place
The inter-island ferry: the ships that leave Port Blair's harbour for Swaraj Dweep, Shaheed Dweep and the other islands, the Andamans' road between its islands.
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Clownfish and anemoneOf the place
The clownfish of the Andamans' fringing reefs (Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park at Wandoor): orange with three white bands edged in black, living among the tentacles of its host anemone.
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Also drawn for Port Blair 4

Detailed icons from the library that name Port Blair among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Port Blair alone come first. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Port Blair's Zobus

Zobu in Port Blair's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

The animals of Port Blair

Animals and birds the research behind Port Blair's picture names, drawn in the Brand Manual's animal style, in colour and in the city grey. All the animals of India

Green sea turtleChelonia mydas
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The kit

Everything Port Blair needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

44 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols and its Zobus included

Profile

Port Blair’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats

Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Port Blair’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG