No one knows exactly how many Sentinelese live on North Sentinel Island. Attempts by Indian census officials to count them from a distance have put their number at fewer than 100.

North Sentinel Island difficult for Indian officials to retrieve body of missionary. Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 9:22 a.m. In this October 2018 photo, American adventurer John Allen Chau, right ...

Plus, he noted, it may already be too late to learn much from the body, since the heat and humidity on North Sentinel will cause rapid decomposition. “Ultimately, it’s becoming futile,” he said.

North Sentinel is in the Andaman Islands at the intersection of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. ... said North Sentinel Island was a protected area and not open to tourists.

In this Nov. 14, 2005 file photo, clouds hang over the North Sentinel Island, in India’s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands. An American is believed to have been killed by an isolated ...

North Sentinel is 500 miles east of India, and it’s speculated that somewhere in the range of 100 to 150 people live there. No one knows for sure.

In an astonishing new discovery, Google Earth has confirmed development on the isolated North Sentinel Island, home to one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world. Using satellite imagery from ...

An American Christian believed to have been engaged in missionary work appears to have been killed by tribespeople from one of the world's most isolated communities, on a remote island hundreds of ...

North Sentinel Island is a mystery that might be better left untouched. Over the past week, the world has become captivated by the story of an island off the coast of India and the missionary who ...

FILE – Clouds hang over the North Sentinel Island, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Nov. 14, 2005. Author: RAJESH ROY Associated Press Published: 7:52 AM CDT April 17, 2025 ...

Two weeks ago a young American made a doomed mission to North Sentinel Island, a speck in the Bay of Bengal and home to perhaps the most isolated people on earth — all 50 or so of them.