10 Mysterious Places You Aren’t Allowed To Visit

3. North Sentinel Island, India

North Sentinel Island India
By NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided by the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/42000/42136/nsentinelisland_ali_2009324_lrg.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8955271

Just like the vicious snakes on Ilha da Queimada Grande in Brazil, the indigenous tribe on North Sentinel Island in India will kill any intruders on sight. The Indian government have given up trying to establish contact with the Sentinelese people because they're so incredibly hostile.

Located in the Bay Of Bengal, North Sentinel is said to be have been home to an unnamed number of men and women for more than 60,000 years. Photographs of the population, however many, are rare due to the attacks on anyone who has tried to make contact with the tribespeople.

A 3-mile radius has been imposed on the island to ensure anyone travelling nearby has safe passage. To put it into perspective, that's roughly the size of Manhattan in New York, and just goes to show that the Sentinelese don't want you or anyone else popping by for tea.

Spooky.

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