An American tourist was arrested after allegedly sneaking onto an isolated island in an attempt to meet a remote tribe untouched by the modern world — and leaving a coconut and a can of Diet Coke.

North Sentinel Island is a land mass roughly the size of Manhattan in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, about 750 miles from the Indian mainland.

North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal remains off-limits to outsiders to protect the Sentinelese, an uncontacted tribe. With a history of lethal resistance to intrusions, the island’s ...

But it wasn’t until more recently, when I began researching a book about the strange story of North Sentinel, that I truly began to grasp how and why they have isolated themselves so completely ...

North Sentinel Island, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is home to the Sentinelese people. Visiting the island is illegal, and the Indian government patrols a three-mile buffer ...

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He arrived in Port Blair on March 26 and ventured to North Sentinel Island from the Kurma Dera beach, they said. He launched his boat from Kurma Dera beach around 1 am on March 29, carrying a ...

North Sentinel Island is home to the indigenous Sentinelese people who have responded aggressively to visitors on the island. In 2018, a U.S. Christian missionary John Allen Chau, ...

The inhabitants of North Sentinel Island may be the last "uncontacted" people on Earth — and they'd like to keep it that way. For centuries, the island's reclusive, Indigenous people (known as the ...

Clouds hang over the North Sentinel Island, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Nov. 14, 2005. (Gautam Singh/AP) Indian police say a tourist visited North Sentinel Island, an ...

North Sentinel Island is home to the uncontacted Sentinelese tribe, fiercely resisting outsiders for thousands of years. Know why this isolated land is strictly off-limits and the secrets it holds.

The tribe lives on their own small forested island called North Sentinel in the Indian Ocean. It is not known for certain, but the ancestors of the Sentinelese may have lived on the island for ...