North Sentinel Island is located within the Andaman Islands archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, India. Its size is small, since the territory has approximately 59 square kilometers and the visit of foreigners is prohibitedaccording to ‘National Geographic’.
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There lives an indigenous tribe called Sentinelse, which remains isolated from the entire planet. Some research indicates that its population comes from Africa and is considered part of the last hunter-gatherer societies in the world.
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Ayeshea Perera, a member of the Hindi Service, explained that: “Their resistance to all contact with the outside world has made it impossible for anyone to approach them.”according to ‘BBC’.
The only recorded visit to the territory was in 1967, in which it was possible to observe that they live in huts with sloping roofs, which are built one in front of the other, on the facade you can usually find a carefully tended fire on the outskirts of each house, according to ‘Forbes’.
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Some of their arrows, spears and knives They have iron points that are believed to have been found from the remains of boats. that reach the shores of its beach. The rescue teams anchored near the island observed that at night they made bonfires on the beach and heard sounds of people singing.
It should be noted that due to their isolation, they run the risk of a tourist carrying some type of virus that is not present on the island and infecting the population, which could be lethal for them because Your defenses may not be able to attack these diseases.
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