Naini Tal

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Naini Tal
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 29.38°N, 79.45°E
Altitude: 2,084 m (6,837 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Nainital
State/Province: Uttarakhand
Country: India
Transport links

Naini Tal is a hill station in the Kumaon foothills of the outer Himalayas. There was a cantonment located there.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Nainital
Variants: Nynee Tal/Naini Tal

Surrounding area

Bhim Tal , modern name Bhimtal (Wikipedia) is situated 22 kilometres from Naini Tal . It was the location of a Boer prisoner of war camp , established in 1902 at the north end of the lake, according to this link[1]

Approximately 65 kilometres (40 miles) from Nainital is the Jim Corbett National Park The author of this India List post has happy memories of her young days in the forests of Kumaon near the Jim Corbett National Park.

External links

Historical books online

  • "Naini Tal Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18, page 333.
  • "Map of Naini Tal", between pages 282 and 283, A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.
  • "Nynee Tal" from "A Sketch of the Physical and Topographical Characters and Other Relations of the Hill Sanitaria of Darjeeling, Nynee Tal, Landour and Murree, in the Bengal Presidency", page 307 Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862 Google Books

References

  1. Page 78 Hill resorts of U.P. Himalaya,: a geographical study by Nutan Tyagi 1991 Google Books