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2014-03-16 India-Pakistan

Five things to know about India's Andaman Islands

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 The Sentinelese (also Sentineli, Senteneli, Sentenelese, North Sentinel Islanders) are an indigenous people of the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal. They inhabit North Sentinel Island, which lies westward off the southern tip of the Great Andaman archipelago. They are noted for resisting attempts at contact by outsiders. The Sentinelese maintain an essentially hunter-gatherer society subsisting through hunting, fishing, and collecting wild plants. There is no evidence of either agricultural practices or methods of producing fire.[1] Their language remains unclassified.

Posted by John Frum 2014-03-16 19:55|| 2014-03-16 19:55|| Front Page Top

#2 In 2006, Sentinelese archers killed two fishermen who were fishing illegally within range of the island. The archers later drove off, with a hail of arrows, the helicopter that was sent to retrieve the bodies.[12]

Posted by John Frum 2014-03-16 19:56|| 2014-03-16 19:56|| Front Page Top

#3 The small tribe on North Sentinel Island continues to resist all contact with the outside world just as they have for the past 60,000 years. They drive off fishermen, journalists, anthropologists and government officials with their spears and arrows. Their low-lying island, heavily forested and protected by a barrier of coral reefs, is roughly the size of Manhattan.

The tsunami warning on Wednesday was a false alarm. In 2004, however, it was initially feared that North Sentinel had been swamped by the killer tsunami that devastated the nearby Andaman and Nicobar Islands. When the Indian Coast Guard sent a helicopter to check on the Sentinelese, a single naked bowman emerged from the forest and fired arrows to drive the chopper away.

The Sentinelese had survived.

Posted by John Frum 2014-03-16 19:57|| 2014-03-16 19:57|| Front Page Top

#4 ..Thanks John.!

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-03-16 20:40|| 2014-03-16 20:40|| Front Page Top

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