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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 .
John Allen Chau (December 18, 1991 – November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, a tribe in voluntary isolation, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to introduce the tribe to Christianity.
The highest point is located in North Andaman Island (Saddle Peak at 732 m (2,402 ft)). [ 39 ] : 33 The geology of the Andaman islands consists essentially of Late Jurassic to Early Eocene ophiolites and sedimentary rocks ( argillaceous and algal limestones ), deformed by numerous deep faults and thrusts with ultramafic igneous intrusions . [ 40 ]
They live on Strait Island. [note 3] Sentinelese: estimated to be 15 individuals in 2011 Indian census. [8] They live in the North Sentinel Island. An Andamanese family on the Great Andaman island in 2006. By the end of the eighteenth century, there were an estimated 5,000 Great Andamanese living on Great Andaman. Altogether they comprised ten ...
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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 ...
Adam K. Goodheart is an American historian, essayist, and author. He is known for his book on the social history of the early days of the American Civil War: 1861: The Civil War Awakening, [1] and The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth, a work of history as well as travel about North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean.