By Traveldine
The isolated North Sentinel Island is one place that you can NEVER visit!
It has been described as ‘the hardest place in the world to visit’.
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Away from the world and untouched by civilization, this island is home to the world’s most isolated and dangerous tribe.
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Tucked away west of Labyrinth Islands in southern Andamans, it’s even illegal for Indians to make contact with them.
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These hunter-gatherers violently attack and kill anybody who makes an attempt to visit or help them.
Don’t even go there by mistake. Even helicopters are met with a hail of spears.
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While most attempts to meet them have been unsuccessful, in the early 1990s they accepted coconuts from a team from the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI).
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The Sentinelese have their reasons to block all attempts of contact.
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In 1880, a British naval officer, in an attempt to ‘civilise’ them, kidnapped six islanders to Port Blair.
As they were not immune to modern diseases, they immediately started falling ill, and two of them died.
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The remaining four (children) were dropped back with presents to make amends.
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They never wanted contact with the world and have been living in seclusion for over 60,000 years.
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In 1997, all outside contact and visits to North Sentinel Island were officially banned.
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Can’t really blame them for blocking us out!
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