Port Blair, Sept 23. (UNI): India's last active volcano in the Barren island of Andaman and Nicobar Islands is slowly calming down after 16 months of its eruption said a top Coast Guard official here on Friday.

"The volcano's eruption intensity has considerably become less now and is calming down," Inspector General S.P.Sharma, the Command of Andaman and Nicobar’s Coast Guard Region said.

Mr Sharma said Coast Guard surveillance report shows more smokes and less lava coming out of this small volcanic island.

'Barren' presently India's only active volcano is situated in the North Andaman region and had erupted in May 2005 after the disastrous tsumani hit the island in December 2004.

Located some 135 kilometres northeast from here, the volcano runs about 150 fathoms deep under the sea and usually gives off smoke.

The ilsland is uninhabited except a few feral goats that live on the other side where there are vegetation and natural sources of water.

After the eruption, the adminstrative department had allowed tourists to see the active volcano, which was only accessible to Indian Coast Guard then.