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North Sentinel is surrounded by coral reefs, and lacks natural harbours. The entire island, other than the shore, is forested. [31] There is a narrow, white-sand beach encircling the island, behind which the ground rises 20 metres (66 ft), and then gradually to between 46 and 122 metres (151 and 400 ft) [1] [32]: 257 near the
The Sentinelese live on North Sentinel Island, [a] in the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. [6] [7] The island lies about 64 km (35 nmi) west of Andaman capital Port Blair. [8] It has an area of about 59.67 km 2 (14,740 acres) and a roughly square outline.
South Sentinel is 26.5 kilometres (14 + 1 ⁄ 4 nmi) west-northwest of Little Andaman Island in the south of the Andaman chain but 59.6 kilometres (32 + 1 ⁄ 4 nmi) south of its counterpart North Sentinel Island. From the limited information available it can be said that South Sentinel Island is a forested coral reef. From a journal written in ...
In November, Chau embarked on a journey to North Sentinel Island, which he thought could be "Satan's last stronghold on Earth", [16] with the aim of contacting and living among the Sentinelese. [17] [10] In preparation for the trip, he was vaccinated and quarantined, [18] and also undertook medical and linguistic training. [19]
The Cholas called the island Ma-Nakkavaram ("great open/naked land"), found in the Thanjavur inscription of 1050 CE. European traveller Marco Polo (12th–13th century) also referred to this island as 'Necuverann' and a corrupted form of the Tamil name Nakkavaram would have led to the modern name Nicobar during the British colonial period. [11]
Tristan da Cunha, a group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, is the most isolated inhabited archipelago on the planet, making its 242 residents quite self-sufficent.
Sentinel Island may refer to: Sentinel Island (Tasmania), Australia; Sentinel Island (Alaska), location of the Sentinel Island Light lighthouse; Sentinel Island (Washington), one of the San Juan Islands, U.S. North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman Islands, India, and home to the isolated Sentinelese; South Sentinel Island, part of the ...
Little Andaman Island ; South Sentinel Island; The Brothers Islands. North Brother Island; South Brother Island; East Volcano Islands. Narcondam Island; Barren Island;