GANGASAGAR MELA

Sagar Island:

• Also known as: Gangasagar or Sagardwip.
  
  
• Location: It is an Island in the Ganges delta, lying on the continental shelf of Bay of Bengal. This Island falls under South 24 Parganas District in West Bengal.
  
  
• Flora and fauna: Although Sagar island is a part of Sunderban Administration, it does not have any tiger habitation or mangrove forests or small river tributaries as is characteristic of the overall sunderban delta.
  
  

Ganga Sagar Mela:

• Sagar island is a place of Hindu pilgrimage.
  
  
• Every year on the day of Makar Sankranti, hundreds of thousands of Hindus gather to take a holy dip at the confluence of river Ganges and Bay of Bengal and offer prayers (puja) in the Kapil Muni Temple.