The mystery of the world's most dangerous island, where the bizarre tribe lives, forbids anyone to come

A tropical vacation on a remote island is the dream of many travelers. Who doesn't love to relax on the white sand beach, sipping a cocktail while watching the crystal clear ocean? A few names like Maldives, Seychelles, and Mauritius may come to mind.

But there is an island in the Indian Ocean that tourists are forbidden to visit. While the island's nature is still intact compared to the outside world, it's definitely not worth the risk of going there. North Sentinel Island, one of the 572 archipelagos that make up the Andaman Islands, is home to 500 indigenous people.

It is a protected area of India, located in the Bay of Bengal, bordering Myanmar and Thailand as the two closest landlocked countries. The island is run by a tribe that voluntarily lives in isolation. That's why there is a five-nautical-mile (9.3 km) wide exclusion zone around it. The Sentinel people, known as the world's most dangerous tribe, have lived in this area for about 60,000 years. But some explorers were so curious that they crossed the exclusion zone for years with dangerous consequences.

From the outside, this seems to be an ordinary island, about 8 km long, 7 km wide, with an area of nearly 60 square kilometers, the location is not very far, about 30 km from the neighboring large islands. The island has a climate that is not too harsh either - the climate is tropical, with lush vegetation and shaded greenery, the only unusual thing is that it is surrounded by coral reefs and ships can only dock two months a year.

The most recent person to make the illegal trip to the island was American missionary John Allen Chau (26) in 2018. He was sent by a missionary in Missouri, who planned to live and spread Christianity to the Sentinels.

Their language is not recognized by anyone outside the tribe so it is very difficult for them to understand English. Regardless, John Allen Chau, has visited the island several times. He visited Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman Islands, on a tourist visa before paying the fishermen about $400 (£301) to be brought illegally to the North Sentinel.

On November 15, a boat dropped him off about 700 meters from the shore. Later, John rowed toward the shore with a waterproof bible, despite the fisherman's warning.

John gives gifts to the tribe and tries to communicate with them, but retreats after receiving hostile feedback. On another visit, he was shot by a boy with a metal-tipped arrow through the Bible he was holding, according to a diary he kept. John's last visit was on November 17 and he never returned. The fishermen claimed they saw the tribe dragging and burying him on the shore.

Despite the efforts of the Indian authorities, John was never found. Seven people, including fishermen who helped him access the island, were captured. John wrote in his diary before the mission: "I think it is worthwhile to preach about Jesus to these people. Please don't be angry with them or angry with God if I lose... Don't take my body back." This island is still a mystery that many scientists have a headache when looking for answers.

The earliest modern human contact with the island was probably during the monsoon in the late summer of 1867. The Indian merchant ship Nineveh veered off course and collided with the reefs around Sentinel Island. At least 100 passengers survived the incident and continued to explore the island, unaware that an angry tribe would go to war with them three days after their arrival.

Dozens of islanders then confronted the crew members and the group of passengers with bows and arrows and began to defend themselves with sticks and stones. At the same time, the captain sought help and contacted a naval ship that would eventually arrive on the island to rescue the remaining passengers.

In 1880, a British Royal Navy officer known as Maurice Portman led a new expedition to the island. With the aim of searching for the aborigines, he went into the forests of the island, but they only caught an old man, a woman and four children. The two adults fell ill from exposure to modern-day diseases and died after arriving on the mainland, so Portman hurriedly sent the four children back to his island.

This seemingly ordinary island is actually the most human danger to modern humans. We have no right to force the Sentinels to change themselves, so the end with those who try to set foot on the island is that no one can blame anyone, no matter how evil they are, there will be no law to punish them, unless one day they land on other islands and pose a threat to others in the world outside of them.

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