The small Viper Island served as the prison where the British held political prisoners and convicts. Ruins of a gallows can be found on a hill. When exploring things to do in Port Blair, visiting this historic site provides a deep historical experience.
It is interesting to know that the Viper Island Jail was abandoned after Cellular Jail came up in the year 1906. Although the mention of Cellular Jail comes about while describing Port Blair, its Andaman connection, and involvement with the freedom movement, Viper Island jail, so to say, finds much precedence to this magnificent marvel because a great deal more in terms of the brutal atrocities, they planned against their fighters was suffered long before its actual existence as an idea and thus when Cellular Jail came up.
