Place · urban beach · India
Marina Beach, Chennai
Also known as Marina Beach, Madras Marina, Chennai Marina
The second-longest urban beach in the world — 13 kilometres along the Bay of Bengal from the Fort St George area north to Besant Nagar south — defining Chennai's eastern face. Marina was developed from 1884 under Governor Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff as a formal esplanade, with the Vivekananda House, Senate House of the University of Madras, the Anna Memorial, the Kamarajar Memorial, the MGR Memorial and the Karunanidhi Memorial lining its promenade. The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami broke along Marina with substantial damage to the fishing village at the southern end.
- Date
- 1884–None
- Function
- Landscape & environmental change
- Patron dynasty
- British Raj · Indian Union
- Tradition
- Standard reference; INTACH, ASI and municipal records; institutional histories.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 13.050, 80.282
Connections (1)
- Site withinMadras / Chennai
Marina Beach runs 13 kilometres along the Bay of Bengal from Fort St George north to Besant Nagar south, defining Chennai's eastern face. The 1884 promenade development under Governor Grant Duff and the subsequent memorial cluster (Vivekananda House, University Senate House, Anna Memorial, MGR Memorial, Karunanidhi Memorial) make Marina the Tamil political state's symbolic ceremonial geography.