North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. [8] The island is a protected area of India. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe in voluntary isolation who have defended, often by force, their protected isolation from the outside world.

The Sentinelese, also known as the Sentineli and the North Sentinel Islanders, are an indigenous people who inhabit North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal in the northeastern Indian Ocean. Designated a particularly vulnerable tribal group and a Scheduled Tribe, they belong to the broader class of Andamanese peoples.

2018年11月27日 · Not many people know more about the Sentinelese than Indian anthropologist T N Pandit. As a regional head for India's Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Mr Pandit embarked on visits to their isolated...

2024年7月31日 · North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, in the northern part of the Indian Ocean. In the 18th century, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were first explored by Dutch, Austrian and British merchant ships looking for the best trade routes to the spice-rich Asian subcontinent.

2024年9月13日 · The Sentinelese tribe on North Sentinel Island, part of India's Andaman Islands, remains the world’s most isolated tribe, living as hunter-gatherers and fiercely resisting outside contact for thousands of years.

2022年3月12日 · Part of the Indian archipelago, most of the 572 islands are open to tourists and have been trekked through by human beings for centuries. But among the snorkeling and sunbathing hotspots, there is one island, known as North Sentinel Island, that has remained almost entirely cut off from the world.

2018年11月30日 · They're one of the few mostly "uncontacted" groups left in the world, and they owe that isolation partly to geography -- North Sentinel is a small island, off the main shipping routes,...

2022年4月15日 · India has banned its citizens from visiting North Sentinel Island or attempting to make contact with the people who live there. Going within three miles of the island is illegal. The...

2023年4月5日 · North Sentinel Island, located in the Bay of Bengal, is one of the most isolated places on earth. It is home to the Sentinelese tribe, who have remained largely untouched by the modern world for thousands of years.

6 天之前 · North Sentinel Island remains one of Earth's last true time capsules—its people living as their ancestors did for millennia, untouched by modern civilization. And since 1956, the Indian ...