In 1792 he was ordered to relocate the settlement to North Andaman Island and hand over command to Major Kyd.
In 1789 the government of Bengal established a penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman, named Port Blair to honor Lieutenant Archibald Blair of the British East India Company.
This small island derives its name from the vessel `Viper in which Lt. Archibald Blair came to Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 1789.
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