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North Sentinel Island

North Sentinel Island
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About North Sentinel Island

North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal that also includes South Sentinel Island. A protected area of India, it is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe in voluntary isolation who have defended—often with force—their protected isolation from the outside world. The island is about eight kilometres long and seven kilometres wide, and its area is approximately 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi).

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If you Google Map North Sentinel Island, which is where they live, you can zoom right in and you will see there's actually a bar there. It's a curry house and bar. It's got a series of five star reviews, and at the moment there is a sign underneath that says hours may be affected by COVID-19. The reviews include: 'a good getaway especially given current events,' 'dinner good but interrupted by arrows and death threats from waiters.'

from 319: No Such Thing As 19th Century Feudal Japanese Monopoly, 2020-05-01 at 00:32:31 · read transcript

Other times North Sentinel Island came up

  1. We found a way to make contact. Then they say, and what happened? They buried their bums and pretended to defecate. You can't really use us. You can't give a big lecture tour based on mooning, I don't think. Do you know if you Google map North Sentinel Island, which is where they live, it's you can zoom right in. You will see there's actually a bar there. What? Really? Yeah.

    No Such Thing As 19th Century Feudal Japanese Monopoly, 2020-05-01 · listen

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Coordinates: 11.5775, 92.2444

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