Wheler Island renames as Abdul Kalam Island by Odisha government
Highlights: 
- The Odisha government has renamed the Wheeler Island in Bhadrak district as Abdul Kalam Island.
- It's a humble tribute to the People's President.
- The Wheeler Island will henceforth be named as Abdul Kalam Island.
- APJ Abdul Kalam had passed away at 83 in Meghalaya last month due to suffered a massive cardiac arrest.
- The then CM of Odisha Biju Pattnaik allotted this historic Wheeler Island to the Ministry of Defence on the request of Dr Kalam in the year 1993.
- The island was named after an English commandant Lieutenant Wheeler.
- The first successful land-to-land test of the Prithvi Missile was conducted from the mainland and it landed on the then uninhabited 'Wheeler Island' on November 30, 1993.
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