The natives of the island in the Indian Ocean, killing everyone who sails them

The site wants to introduce you to a very "friendly" guys, to which one can not at the outset dobratsya.Pohozhe adventure novel the XIX-th century, but, nevertheless, it is in our day - natives of the North Island Sentinelskogo avoid contact with the outside world and are extremely aggressive to any intruders attempts to approach the island.



Island is located in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman part of the archipelago. Its area is about 72 km2, and officially it is controlled by the Indian government, but in reality wayward sentineles to themselves, as no agreement on accession to any state they did not sign and did not even discuss it. From the standpoint of international law, the status of the North Sentinelskogo island closest to the sovereign state under the protectorate of India.





The number of the tribe inhabiting the island, according to various estimates ranging from 50 to 400 people. The island was discovered in the late XVIII-th century, but its existence forgotten for almost a century, and remembered only in 1867, when these waters wrecked the Indian merchant vessel. When the 106 surviving sailors to shore, they were met by angry "invasion" aborigines. Crew rescued from extinction only turned nearby warship.





All further attempts to establish contact led to the same result - the natives 'hostility' met even offers of help. When in 2004, the island was badly damaged by the tsunami, India sent to the helicopter, to check whether the survivors. The crew did not have to land - sentinelese themselves out on the coast and a helicopter showered with a hail of arrows. In 2006, the two fishermen accidentally sailed too close to the island and were killed. The Indian government has said it will not interfere in the internal affairs of the inhabitants of the island, and urged citizens to stay away from him.









via factroom.ru

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