North Sentinel, the world's most dangerous island

This island of the Indian Ocean has been home to a tribe that has lived there for 60,000 years, but it is too dangerous to explore it because they try to kill foreigners.

View of the sky, it seems to be an idyllic island with beautiful beaches and a dense forest, but tourists or fishermen do not dare to put their feet there because of the dreadful reputation of its inhabitants. Visitors who venture on or too close to North Sentinel Island may be attacked by members of a mysterious tribe, Sentinels , which rejects modern civilization and prefers to have no contact with the outside world.

When they interact with outside people, it often happens with violence. The Sentinels’ native tribe killed two men who were illegally fishing in 2006 and it is known that they are firing ignited arrows and throwing stones at low-altitude aircraft or helicopters on reconnaissance missions.

Located in the Gulf of Bengale, North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands and has an area of 72 km2. Officially, the island has been administered by India since 1947, but it remains an enigma, despite being populated for nearly 60,000 years. Saved by modern civilization, we know very little about the people of Sentinels, their language, their rituals and the island itself.

It is too dangerous to approach them because of their hostility to foreigners, which means that they are rarely photographed closely and almost never seen on a video. Most of the photos and video clips that exist are of poor quality.

The reports of the tribe’s population are also contradictory, most of the estimates indicating that the island is populated by a few dozens to a few hundred inhabitants. It is still unclear what the impact of the 2004 tsunami on the population and on the island is, although the isolated tribe seems to have managed to avoid being annihilated. After the tsunami, a member was photographed trying to shoot an arrow on an Indian Coast Guard helicopter.

Often referred to as “a tribe of the Stone Age” (a title that its defenders take as an offence, saying that its members have adapted over time), Sentinels could be the most isolated tribe in the world, the Indian government choosing not to interfere with their business. The government has made several unsuccessful attempts to establish contact, but has abandoned any attempt and allows the tribe to live how it chose it on this island that is of the size of Manhattan.

The Indian authorities have been able to prohibit attempting to contact the Sentinels. It is illegal to approach the island. Sentinels live almost naked, and survive through hunting and fishing.

In an article published in 1993 The Independent Here we learn that Trilokinath Pandit, an academic, conducted several anthropological expeditions to approach the Sentinels. He and his team are the only ones to date who could have come into contact with the native tribe. But for that, it took several tests over 30 years. "We don't know why, suddenly, they decided to drop the weapons" He's surprised. To penetrate the Sentinels’ ancestry, the Pandit team had to remove its clothes and accustom themselves to local traditions. The expedition was filmed:

According to the academic, the people are not cannibal and have no tribal leader, unlike the ideas received.

Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crashed on the island?

In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was reported missing. Aerial images captured by NASA show important traces of smoke escaping from the island. What if the Boeing crashed on North Sentinel Island? However, the authorities denied this assumption publicly.