The
Japanese developed Hashima when coal was discovered in the rock beneath the
island and surrounding sea floor. Once considered the most densely populated
place in the world with 334 people per acre (835 per hectare), this island
mining community now stands completely abandoned in the water of the East China
Sea. Parts of the James Bond Movie “Skyfall were filmed on the islan”.
4.Alcatrz
Island
A
small, rocky outpost in the middle of San Francisco Bay California. Spanish
explorer LT. Juan Manuel de Ayala first mapped the island in 1775 and gave it
the name “Isla de los Alcatraces” (Island of the Pelicans) because of the large
number of seabirds that roosted there. It was latest home to what is probably
the most famous prison in the world and can still be visited today.
3.North Sentinel Island
North
sentinel island lies some 20 miles west of Smith Island, in the Bay of Bengal.
It is about 28 square miles and is completely forested, with the exception of
the thin strips of beach that encircle most of it. It is populated by one of
the few remaining “un contacted tribes” in the world. The Sentinels are highly
xenophobic and resist of virtually all attempts at contact, frequently firing
arrows at boats and helicopters that come too close to the island.
2.Snake Island
Ilha de
Queimada Grande, nicknamed Snake Island, is a 110 acre island off the coast of
the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is home to a species of fer-de-lance, the
Golden Lancehead Viper, which is one of the most venomous snakes in the world.
Local legend claims there are almost five snakes to every square yard. It is
dangerous and forbidden by law to set
foot on the island.
1.Easter Island
Giant
stone statues, up to three stories tall, don’t carve and move themselves. How,
then, did the original inhabitants of Easter Island, whose only tools were
stone, bone and coral manage to accomplish such a monumental task? This
question has plagued the western world
since the Dutch sea captain Jacob Roggeveen landed on the island on Easter Day,
April 5, 1772.
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