Kurumgad Island

Kurumgad Island is a tortoise formed island four km

off the coast of Karwar (it takes a 20-minute motorboat trip to attain this desolate Island).

The Island is now privately owned and belongs to a Coffee Planter Suresh Mathias.

It became dominated with the aid of using

exceptional dynasties inclusive of the Vijayanagar Empire.

Atop a hill there’s an vintage Narasimha temple that attracts

heaps of devotees each yr throughout a annual jatra.

An best location to identify seals this rock formation in step

with Geologists became shaped from Earthquake

hobby three hundred million years ago.

The Kurmagad Island close by has an vintage citadelress

a Narasimha shrine, really well worth a visit.