"An American tourist has been arrested after sailing to a remote island and leaving behind a can of Coke and a coconut for the world’s most dangerous and isolated people.
North Sentinel Island is home to the Sentinelese, a pre-Neolithic tribe that has rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing bows and arrows at passing helicopters and killing those landing ashore.
Yet Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, made an illegal visit to the island on Saturday using a makeshift craft to cross a 25-mile strait, Indian police said...."
"...The Sentinelese have a long history of rejecting outside contact. Indian authorities strictly prohibit visits to the island to protect the tribe from external threats.
In 2018, 26-year-old American missionary John Chau was killed after attempting to make contact and convert the islanders to Christianity..."
An American tourist has been arrested after sailing to a remote island and leaving behind a can of Coke and a coconut for the world’s most dangerous and isolated people.
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