Outsiders are strictly forbidden from going to North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025.

American YouTuber Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, was arrested for illegally visiting North Sentinel Island in India, home ...

A U.S. tourist sneaked onto a highly restricted island carrying a coconut and a can of Diet Coke to a tribe untouched by the ...

North Sentinel Island, part of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is home to the indigenous Sentinelese people, one of the last ...

In 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau, 27, was killed by the Sentinelese, an endangered tribe, after illegally trying to enter their territory to preach Christianity. He was allegedly killed ...

Indian authorities have arrested an American YouTuber for illegally trespassing on North Sentinel Island — one of the most isolated places on Earth. There are just a few hundred Indigenous ...

A 24-year-old American man went to a far-flung island in hopes of filming an encounter with the Sentinelese, the Indian authorities said. It is illegal to make contact with the tribe. By Christine ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, illegally visited North Sentinel Island – part of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago and home to the uncontacted Sentinelese tribe – on March 29 ...

A 24-year-old American tourist, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, has been detained in India for allegedly entering North Sentinel Island, home to the isolated Sentinelese tribe. Polyakov left a can ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, was detained after taking a boat to North Sentinel Island, part of India’s Andaman and ...