#6 Most Dangerous Island

North Sentinel Island

Hey dears,  This time I am here with one new interesting topic. May be you were unaware of this fact, scan my words and share if you have any extra points to add.

How many of you watched south indian Tamil movie –  Aayirathil Oruvan??? If not, don’t miss the interesting movie, watch it now.

After watching that movie, I questioned myself, how it would be, if the stone age tribal’s are still alive in this modern era???

OMG !!! That had became true!!!

North Sentinel Island – Aerial view

North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, which includes South Sentinel Island, in the Bay of Bengal. It is home to the Sentinelese who, often violently, reject any contact with the outside world, and are among the last people worldwide to remain virtually untouched by modern civilization. As such, only limited information about the island is known.

North Sentinel Island, however, is unlike any other. It has been described as ‘the hardest place in the world to visit’, ‘the world’s most dangerous island’ and home to ‘the most isolated tribe in the world’.

Name : North sentinel Island

Location – Indian Ocean

Home to the Sentinelese tribe

Just imaging a day without mobiles!! without dress !! Nothing..

• They may well be the last humans left on the planet who remain totally isolated from modern civilization and prefer to have zero contact with the outside world.

• Located in the Bay of Bengal, North Sentinel Island belongs to India and remains an enigma, despite being populated for an estimated 60,000 years.

• Untouched by modern civilisation, very little is known about the Sentinelese people, their language, their rituals and the island they call home.

Chola dynasty

Rajendra Chola I (1014 – 1044), one of the Tamil Chola dynasty kings, conquered the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to use them as a strategic naval base to launch a naval expedition against the Sriwijaya Empire (a Buddhist empire based in the island of Sumatra, Indonesia). They called the islands Tinmaittivu (“Valour/Truth/Strength islands” in Tamil).

Later Maratha empire, British & now finally India.

Chola dynasty map

Lifestyle of sentinelese tribe

• Population May be between 50 and 400 Individuals
• Occupation Hunting
• Diet Cocunuts, fish, turtles and small birds
• Weapons Spears,bows and arrows

Sentinelese

Are you an adventurous traveler??? Don’t dare to plan a trip to this island. Do you want to know, what happened to those and all trying to reach there??, stay tuned..

• It doesn’t matter whether you are a friend or enemy, whether you arrived on purpose or by accident, the locals will greet you the same way with spears and arrows,’ the narrator states
• Since 1967 Indian authorities have attempted to make peaceful contact with the Sentinelese.
• On August 2, 1981,he ship, called the Primrose, was hopelessly stuck. The crew stayed on their boat for a few days, when the saw native people advancing towards their ship, armed with spears, bows and arrows.

• The captain made a distress call via radio and the crew were airlifted to safety by helicopter.

There is now a 5km exclusion zone around North Sentinel Island

• A documentary team and some police officers got the same fierce welcome in 1974: The film’s director took an 8-foot-long arrow in the thigh.
• under the auspices of anthropological research. Small parties in the early 1970s were turned away by arrows.

A lone tribesman takes aim at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter (Image: Indian Coast Guard; Fair Use)

• When a Hindu convict escaped in 1896, he drifted 30 miles on a makeshift raft and washed up on North Sentinel. A search party found his body a few days later on a beach, punctured by arrows and his throat cut.

• Indeed, following the 2004 tsunami, which hit several regions of the Indian Ocean, helicopters from the Indian Coast Guard were sent to help the Sentinelese and drop food parcels. One of the tribesmen responded by firing an arrow at the rescue team.

• The last recorded contact with the Sentinelese was in 2006, when the Sentinelese archers killed two fishermen who were fishing illegally within range of the island.

Contact with outside world

• Some government-sponsored groups made brief trips to the island in the late 1980s and early ’90s, largely under the direction of the Indian anthropologist T.N. Pandit.

• Mr. Pandit and his colleagues left gifts of coconuts, knives, cloth, candy, aluminum cookware, mirrors, rubber balls, beaded necklaces, plastic buckets.

Due to their complete isolation, the chances of them being wiped out by an epidemic are very high!!!              

Sentinelese kid

 

‘Gifts of food and clothing are of no importance to them.’

 No expectations!! No salaries!!  No modernization!!!

 Is this is a curse or a bless!!??

 I extremely wondered when I hear about this island, thought to make you all exclaim.

Stay tuned!!…. Next week will exclaim you more with Some other topics!!.