Thursday, April 21, 2011

Say Where? : North Sentinel Island

This is North Sentinel Island, a 28 square mile land-mass that is located in the Bay of Bengal. The island is considered part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands by the Indian government. It is almost completely covered with forest, besides the small beach areas that encircle the island. But what makes this island remarkable are the unique population of indiginous people that reside there, the Sentinelese people. They are among the only groups to have not been influenced by modern civilization, because of their extreme standoffishness when confronted. If helicopters try to land or even just fly over their island, they will attack with many arrows, completely opposed to any sort of contact.

-M'Lady

3 comments:

  1. The picture of the island looks kinda weird with the clouds. Well at least they wont have to struggle like other natives.

    CN

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  2. LOL they look like lil midgets in the picture. :3
    -RAD

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  3. Ohmygod, that water is soo pretty :D

    arrows are also pretty shnazzy d:

    -nat

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