North sentinel island

Members of an isolated Indian tribe armed with bows and arrows have killed an American who encroached on their remote island, police said. John Allen Chau, 26, is believed to have paid fishermen to ferry him to North Sentinel Island, home to a 30,000-year-old tribe known to aggressively repel outsiders. “The fishermen in the dinghies tried to warn him it’s a risky thing,” said Denis Giles, an activist for the rights of tribal groups and a journalist on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Indian territory where the incident took place. He said Chau, who some Christian groups have claimed was a missionary, had been trying to find ways to reach North Sentinel Island and finally succeeded on Saturday, taking a dinghy with the fishermen, then completing the rest of the journey by kayak. “Somehow he made it,” said Giles. He added: “The fishermen who were back in the dinghy saw an arrow hit him. Later they said he was taken deeper [into the island] and buried.” The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are scattered across the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. They were colonised by the UK in the 1850s and used as a penal colony, including for Indian dissidents and freedom fighters involved in the 1857 uprising against British rule. Anthropologists have evidence human life existed on the Andamans at least 2,000 years ago, while genome studies suggest the four native tribes on the islands – of which the Sentinelese are the most isolated – are at least 30,000 years old. North S...

You know how in King Kong, the film crew seeks out that creepy island full of native tribesmen who worship a gigantic gorilla god? Well, take away the giant gorilla and the fact that anyone -- even a lunatic film director -- would have the balls to actually go there, and that's basically what North Sentinel Island is. Google Maps But they're not looking to say, "hi"... they're looking to attack you. Just ask the Indian merchant ship, Nineveh, that got stranded there in 1868 and had to fight off attacks from the Sentinelese, or the crew of a cargo ship, Primrose, that got stranded in 1981 and were helicoptered out shortly before being attacked, or two fisherman who were killed here when their boat drifted too close to shore in 2006. news.ph.msn.com

Few places on Earth have remained isolated from the rest of the world; the North Sentinel Island is one of them. The small island is part of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago in India, and has been the home of the Sentinel tribe for over 60,0000 years, whom scientists believe is one of the first human populations to emerge from Africa, according to It is believed that there are up to 100 people living on the island. However, it is impossible to have a precise number since the Indian Government has Since the 1700s, there are accounts of around a dozen occasions they had contact with outsiders, and most of them didn't end well. There are reports of violence directed toward trespassers, dating back hundreds of years, including one islander who notched an arrow and pointed it at a hovering helicopter. But there are also the unfortunate fates of the people who were removed from the islands. Marco Polo, the Venice-born merchant and travel writer, included a description of the Andamanese in his diary in the 13th Century. Polo — as we know now, not necessarily the most trustworthy of sources — characterized them as savages and cannibals. However, some specialists believe Polo had never been on the island, since the Sentinelese are not cannibals (via In 1867, an Indian ship was stuck on a reef near North Sentinel, and the crew thought they would be safer on the island. On the third day, they were attacked by a group of men that were "perfectly naked, with short hair and red paint...

Have you ever imagined a place where no one has been, no one has seen? People who normal technology-based homo sapiens have never met? Somewhere where no human like you and me have ever stepped foot? North Sentinel Island… North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, home to one of the last isolated and uncontacted tribes in the world- hunter-gatherers called Sentinelese tribe. It is not allowed for any human to enter or be within 9.26 km distance from the island, nor would you want to. Sentinelese Tribe The tribe doesn’t have friendly relations with outsiders and are staunch protectors of their homeland, previous attempts to contact the tribe was welcomed with showers of spears and arrows, some might even call them the most aggressive uncontacted tribe on Earth. Till day there has only been one friendly meet with the tribe in 1974 they took lots of food from the visitors. However, in 1992 the Indian government banned people to go near the island not just because they would kill them but also because the tribe had no immunity against normal diseases, we face every day, and even if one Sentinelese got infected all of their existence would wipe off the face of Earth. The Sentinelese are 15-400 in number, they are short people 165cm tall with dark shiny skin and teeth, with strong muscles as they are hunter-gatherers. Picture Credit- Sick Chirpse They used spears, arrows, and bows to kill and hunt animals. Some stories believe that the Sentinelese had migrated from Africa tens...

5. Description An idyllic island in the Indian Ocean, North Sentinel Island, lying westward off of the Andaman archipelago’s southern tip, is well-known for the reputation of its indigenous inhabitants, the Sentinelese people. Very little is known about this tribe, which is believed to be one of the most isolated tribes remaining in the world. Even though precise population figures do not exist, in 2001 the officials conducting the Census of who migrated out of Africa thousands of years ago, and became genetically isolated after settling the North Sentinel Island, wherein they developed their own distinct language and genetic traits. 4. Architecture The Sentinelese people are known to live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, with very little information available regarding the nature of their dwellings. Some scattered anecdotal reports suggest they either live in temporary shelters with open sides or build large huts for communal living. They are also believed to use narrow, canoe-like boats that can only be used in shallow waters. Even though the possibility for the use of advanced metalwork is considered to be remote, the Sentinelese are known to have retrieved metal items washed ashore on the island, resulting from shipwrecks in the adjoining oceans and from other external sources.They are also known to use weapons such as arrows, harpoons, and spears for the purposes of defense, hunting, and fishing. 3. Cuisine Just like the other aspects associated with the Sentilenese peopl...