THE WORLD LAST UNTOUCHED ISLAND & ITS CIVILIZATION

THE WORLD LAST UNTOUCHED ISLAND & ITS CIVILIZATION

North Sentinel Island

North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island.

It is home of Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation who have defended, often by force, their protected isolation from the outside world.

They vigorously reject all contact with outsiders. … They live on their own small forested island called North Sentinel, which is approximately the size of Manhattan.

Are They Humans ?

The North Sentinelese are human beings (yes, Homo sapiens) who live on an island and choose not to have contact with people from outside of their island. 

Sentinelese (Tribe)

… Since North Sentinel Islanders and the rest of the human population never interbreed, they are, in at least one sense of the term, not of the same species.

Can we go to North Sentinel island ?

India has banned its citizens. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Act of 1956 prohibits travel to the island and any approach closer than five nautical miles (9.26 km) in order to prevent the resident tribespeople from contracting diseases to which they have no immunity.

Going within three miles of the island is illegal. The Sentinelese people are known for their violence and unwillingness to communicate with any outsiders.

The area is patrolled by the Indian Navy.

Do planes fly over North Sentinel island ?

A few domestic flights and aircraft which belonging to the Ministry of Defense currently pass over the North Sentinel Island

Population of Sentinelese (Tribe).

No rigorous census has been conducted and the population has been variously estimated to be as low as 15 or as high as 500, Most estimates lie between 50 and 200.

A handbook released in 2016 by the Anthropological Survey of India on Vulnerable Tribe Groups estimates the population at between 100 and 150.

American Missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese - 

John Allen Chau

John Allen Chau was an American Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese people, after illegally travelling to North Sentinel Island. He was trying to convert the Sentinelese people to Christianity.

John Allen Chau was said to have been killed with arrows when he landed on North Sentinel on 17 November 2018.

The fishermen who ferried Chau, 27, to North Sentinel said they saw tribesmen drag a body along a beach and bury it.

First successful contact with Sentinelese of The Indian woman - Dr. Madhumala Chattopadhyay

Dr. Madhumala Chattopadhyay was the first woman who became the friend of the Sentinelese tribe of Andamans, She at that time was a research associate with the Anthropological Survey of India. She went to the North Sentinel Island with the support of local administration's ship MV Tarmugli

For years, she pursued her study on them and other such tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and in the process not only did she share an interesting bond with the Sentinelese but even succeeded in communicating with this otherwise non-communicative tribe.

Madhumala now works in the mid-level bureaucracy of a central government ministry in Delhi handling routine government files.

Dr. Madhumala Chattopadhyay