Sand devil length and at least in weight. The sand devil is found in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to the Florida Keys, where it is fairly common. It also occurs in the northern Gulf of Mexico, and there are additional unconfirmed records from Cuba, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The southern extent of its range is uncertain due to confusion with the disparate angelshark ("S. heteroptera") and Mexican angelshark ("S. mexicana"). This bottom-dwelling shark is found over sandy or muddy bottoms on the continental shelf and slope. Off the eastern United States, the sand devil has been documented to migrate seasonally.
Ross Island Penal Colony the Japanese and also by an earthquake which had struck the island in 1941, and it now appears more like a "jungle-clad Lost City." The earliest known effort to establish a penal colony was by Archibald Blair who found the remoteness of the island as ideal for such a colony. But his initiative failed to go beyond 1796 as malaria prevented it. The First War of Indian Independence in 1857 rekindled the interest of the British Administration in India to establish a penal colony in the Andaman Islands for political prisoners. The first group of 200 prisoners were transported under