Interesting Islands: Here we listed most Interesting Islands in the world for you
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Ilha da Queimada Grande
Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as Snake Island, is home to thousands of Golden Lancehead snakes.According to a local legend, there are five snakes per square meter on the island where the most dangerous snakes live in the world.The island was home to a lighthouse that housed keepers. Some claim that the 4.000 Golden Lancehead snakes on the island slither from their window, killing the family.
The Brazilian government keeping people from visiting the island.There is no treatment against the venom of some snakes on this island, and you face death within an hour. So, why so many snakes on Snake Island?
Although the answer to this question is unclear, according to some legends, it is believed that pirates left hundreds of snakes on the island to protect the treasures they stole.
Sable
Often referred to as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” Sable Island is located 300km southeast of Halifax and, it has a 40km long beach with more than 350 shipwrecks.The sands on the island move 100 meters per year.The largest breeding colony of grey seals in the world is on Sable Island.
Visiting this island is not so easy.However, you need to obtain a permit from Parks Canada if you intend to visit the island.The Nova Scotia life-saving station was established on Sable Island in 1801.Except for one Scots pine surviving from planted 80.000 trees in 1901, there are no trees on Sable Island.
Tashirojima
The island has become known as “Cat Island”.Because the cat population is now larger than the human population on the island.The locals of the island believe that feeding cats will bring wealth.A hundred people live on the island nowadays, compared to around a thousand people in the 1950s.83% of the population is classified as elderly.The island is divided into two villages.There is a small cat shrine in the middle of the island, roughly situated between the two villages. There are also 51 stone monuments in the shape of cats.Dogs are not allowed on the island.
It is thought that the main reason for the increase in the cat population on the island is that cats chase the mice away from their precious silkworms.
Oak Island
Oak Island is 140 acres of personal property on the island in Nova Scotia.The tree-covered island is best known for various theories about buried treasures or historical artifacts.Some unproven stories allege that Marie Antoinette’s jewels may have been hidden on the island.When various excavations they discovered strange traces and a giant mysterious stone inscribed with symbols in the underground.Six people have died while searching for the treasure until today.
Gaiola Island
Residents of the coast of Naples, Italy, have seen almost every owner of this island either killed, drowned, or go bankrupt.Gaiola island is abandoned but still considered to be cursed by the local community.The island is now the property of the government of the Campania region, and a protected area within it.
Howland
This U.S. island in the Pacific Ocean is perhaps best known as the island Amelia Earhart, who became the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, was searching for but never reached when her airplane disappeared in 1937 during her planned round-the-world flight.However, Earhart was never heard from again after sending her last radio message near the island.
Much research has been carried out on the island to solve this mysterious disappearance.
North Sentinel
North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago.When Indian Coast Guard helicopters, who carry aid and food to the island, flew over the island after the 2004 tsunami an Indian government helicopter observed several islanders, who shot arrows and threw spears and stones at the helicopter.The Indian government forbade entry to the island in 2005 in order not to disrupt the nature of the island, as the local community considers foreigners to be the enemy and attacks.In 2006, islanders killed two fishermen whose boat had drifted ashore. Their dead bodies were found on coral reefs.The sentinels also attacked the helicopter that came to pick up their bodies.
Pitcairn
Pitcairn has the least population in the world.With a population of only around fifty-six, the people of Pitcairn are descended from the mutineers of the HMS Bounty and their Polynesian companions.HMS Bounty was a small merchant vessel that the Royal Navy purchased in 1789 for a botanical mission.Captain William Bligh had been left in the middle of the ocean after his crew rise against him.Blight reached the Dutch East Indies along with a few loyal men from his crew, in 7 weeks without a compass and a map.Some of the rebels lived on Pitcairn Island because they were afraid of being basted, and they burned the ship there.
Tristan da Cunha
It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world.There is no airstrip on the island; the only way of traveling in and out is by sea.Money is not used on the island.If you’re from a Tristan family, you’re most likely to have one of the six surnames: Collins, Repetto, Rogers, Swain, Green, and Glass.A good feature of the island is all overseas calls are free if the phone is working.
JoalFadiouth
Fadiouth Island is linked to the mainland by a narrow wooden bridge and is covered by clam shells.Since the native population has been collecting mollusks and throwing their shells to the ground for centuries, it is possible to see seashells all over the island.Even shells have been incorporated into the architecture of the island.The island, which was an important center of trade during the colonial period, now serves tourism.
