North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

North Sentinel Island is home to a tribe of an estimated 100 members, the Sentinelese. They refuse any contact with other people and are among the last people who have remained virtually untouched by modern civilisation. The local government has recently stated that there are no intentions of interfering with their lifestyle and habitat.

Although the Andaman Islands suffered seriously from the effects of the December 2004 tsunami, the Sentinelese reportedly survived.

External links

• "Lonely islands: The Andamanese", comprehensive online documentation by George Weber (http://www.andaman.org/book/)
• "The Last Island of the Savages", in-depth article by Adam Goodheart (http://www.andaman.org/book/reprints/goodheart/rep-goodheart.htm)
• Brief factsheet about the indigenous people of the Andaman Islands, by the Andaman & Nicobar Administration (http://www.and.nic.in/C_charter/Dir_tw/pri_tri.htm)
• "The Andaman Tribes - Victims of Development" (http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq_article.cfm?id=00000167-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&region_id=2&subregion_id=69&issue_id=12)
• Previously thought to be wiped out by the Tsunami in December 2004, some Sentinelese were reportedly throwing stones at helicopter delivering food aid days after the disaster (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=H3VRILXKQMNFACRBAEKSFEY?type=scienceNews&storyID=7208425&pageNumber=0)