10 Most Dangerous Islands You NEVER Want To Visit!

you ever felt that need to just get away from it all the boring work the stressful home life all the chores and all the bad games you've been playing because you're not that great at playing games well a vacation in some remote island would be the best the thing is not all islands are the tropical paradise that you usually think they are there are a lot of islands that are best stayed away from kind of like the islands on our list today number one is especially dangerous and setting foot on there is almost the same as stepping into a nuclear reactor stay tuned to find out where it is as we give you 10 of the most dangerous islands you never want to visit number 10 north sentinel island we've actually talked about nora sentinel island before nsi is a small land mass in the bay of bengal india its indigenous population and known as the senelanese rejects any contact with the outside world and remains one of the few peoples that remain untouched by our civilization they value their privacy so much that they go to extreme measures to keep the rest of the world out how do they keep outsiders away from their island though well they kinda just shoot arrows in them for this reason it's impossible to approach the island and survive the encounter just how anti-social are the sun eleni's though well when researchers were assessing the damage after the 2004 indian ocean tsunami even their helicopters were attacked by the sentinelese none of them were heard of course but this example shows how fiercely the island's population is protecting their territory number nine snake island okay do i do i really need to explain this one yeah okay snake island is home to a huge population of snakes big shock according to some estimates there's one snake in each square meter of the island the problem is these aren't just your normal garden variety snakes they just so happen to be one of the most venomous snakes in the world the golden landsat viper this viper's venom is very fatal to humans and is so fast acting that it can finish its job in under an hour its venom also causes immense pain as it has muscle destroying properties numerous local legends though of the horrible fate that awaited those who wandered onto the shores of snake island rumor has it a hapless fisherman landed onto the island in search of bananas only to be discovered days later in his boat lying in a pool of blood with snake bites on his body no word of the bananas though from 1909 to the 1920s a few people did live on the island in order to run its lighthouse nobody lives there permanently anymore most likely because of what happened to the last lighthouse keeper and his entire family which fell victim to only one of these snakes and well they didn't live to tell the tale number 8 miyakejima island miyakejima is one of japan's isu islands an archipelago just south of tokyo here the land rests atop an active volcanic chain that has erupted six times in the last century however the danger isn't just from volcanic eruptions but from the highest concentrations of poisonous gases and the world regularly leaking up to the ground in 2000 a mass evacuation was instituted due to extremely high levels of toxic gas in the area after a series of eruptions from mount oyama the main volcano on the island all flights into the area were stopped for over eight years due to the high levels of sulfur as well miyakejima residents were finally permitted to return to their normal routines in 2005 though residents are required to carry a gas mask with them at all times although miyakejima appears frightening and almost post-apocalyptic tourists can in fact visit the island aside from the dangers of poisonous gas parts of the island are extremely lush and apparently the scuba diving is a beautiful experience filled with dolphin sightings number 7 bikini atoll the archipelago of the bikini atoll is considered an incredibly dangerous recreation site it has not gained this reputation because of these strong undercurrents or dangerous sea dwellers it's because one of the most dangerous things man has ever made is there in 1946 the united states chose this magical island as a nuclear test site for 12 years hydrogen and atomic bombs were regularly tested on this island the islands were inhabited prior to the testing but residents were relocated to other islands before the first bomb was detonated the islands were finally declared safe in 1997 but former residents have refused to come back to their old homes and although radiation levels aren't quite safe now nobody is allowed to eat any food grown on the island the funny thing is tourism is very much allowed in the island and they get regular visitors each year number six runard island this small island in the north of scotland was used by the british government for biological warfare testing during the second world war experiments were carried out on the uninhabited island using the highly virulent anthrax bacterium which killed hundreds of sheep and forced the island to be quarantined afterwards the poor creatures were incinerated and buried on the island but the assumption that the highly virulent anthrax spores would then simply die off on their own however they were proven wrong ah you silly government you it was in fact discovered that the anthrax was still alive and kicking and still highly dangerous on the island's top soil initial efforts to decontaminate it were unsuccessful so the island was closed with warning signs put up to keep out potential intrepid passers-by and so it did remain until in the late 1980s another concerted effort was made to clean up the island hundreds of tons of formaldehyde were sprayed all over the island and soiled at hot spots of contamination that needed to be removed in 1990 the warning signs were finally removed and the island was officially declared safe to visit again not that many would want to go here though and i can't figure out why number five heard island even if you could get to herd island which incidentally is australia's most remote island chances are you still wouldn't quite see it this little-known landmass actually hides in dense clown for around 360 days a year the rare few who do reach this distant wonder are more likely to hear the gurgle of molten rock bubbling up through the island's violent core the active volcano on herd island known as big ben is adorned with vast glaciers stretching to the crashing waves of the ocean far below there were a few reasons for closing the island of the public first in 2000 researchers noticed a huge lava flow coming from the island's massive volcano called mawson's peak second herd island is known for its poor weather conditions and third it's too remote to be safe judge it by yourself it's located in a minimum two week sail to the closest major landmass number four poveglia island italy poveglia island located less than half a mile from venice has such a dark and twisted history even the locals refuse to go near it much less set foot on it legends of ghosts and demons that inhabit the island are prevalent basing on the island's dark history some of these legends may prove to be true it started its life as a fortification built by the venetian government but soon after became a quarantined section for victims of the bubonic plague or black death from 1793 to 1841 it's been reported that this tiny island was home to up to 160 thousand people infected with the plague all of which died helplessly on the island in 1922 a mental institution was built on pavlia replacing the plague victims with the mentally ill but instead of this being an institution to help the less fortunate a local legend says what happened was completely the opposite it is said that one doctor brutally tortured and killed a number of his patients butchering them in unspeakable manners the doctor himself fell victim to the same patients that he murdered as it is said that the spirits of the dead constantly haunted the doctor up to the point when he climbed up a bell tower and jumped to his own death it is said that anyone who sets foot on the island today will be tormented by the evil spirits living there the island is now off limits of the general public and the only way for the venetian authorities to make sure that what dwells on the island stays there is to avoid having them come in contact with a living number three north brother island new york usa located on the east river between the bronx and rikers island north brother island is an island with a fascinating and tragic history it was uninhabited until 1885 when the city purchased the island in order to build the riverside hospital this hospital was for people suffering from contagious diseases such as typhus tuberculosis yellow fever and smallpox the island's most famous resident was typhoid mary milan who bore the unfortunate distinction of being the united states first documented asymptomatic carrier of the bacteria that causes typhoid fever in 1905 over 1 000 people lost their lives when the general slocum steamship caught fire near the island many of the staff assisted in the rescue of some of the 321 survivors it was the worst loss of life in new york's history that is until 9 11. in 1963 it closed its doors for good and has been left to decay ever since the island is officially off limits of the public as it is a bird sanctuary for one of the area's largest nesting colonies of black crown night herons and also is said to be haunted by ghosts of the past all the regular stuff you know now it's time for today's best pick [Music] today's pig is probably the most ominous looking island that i've seen so far but of course we do have a couple of questions about it mainly what island it is where it is and is it really a dangerous place well find out the answers next with number two malaccanee island this island is technically a volcano crater that is partially submerged and is located in the alalakili channel between the islands of maui and kawahawi and the maui country in hawaii it is the remains of one of the seven pleistocene epoch volcanoes that formed the prehistoric maui nui island during the quaternary period of the cenozoic era this currently uninhabited island may look dangerous but it's actually a famous destination for divers its present shape protects divers inside from its waves and the channel's powerful currents though diving also takes place at the 300 foot sheer outer wall in the morning when winds are calmer smaller tour boats also bring guests to snorkel off the outer wall before we move on do me a favor my analytics show that only about 15 of you watching are actually subscribed come on guys what's up with that can you guys please hit the subscribe button you guys watch my videos every day anyway so you might as well subscribe and keep up to date with every video we put out number one bear island despite its name bear island isn't actually filled with bears in fact nothing much lives there at all instead of an island it most resembles a huge rock in the middle of the ocean located between mainland norway and spits bergen island this is a rather mysterious destination due to the perpetual fog hovering over the rocky shores while approaching the southern coast the cliff wall appears like a moving wall of seabirds with thousands of kitty walkies and mirrors on the narrow ledges and glucose goals breeding at the top which basically comprises all the life living on the island but what makes it really dangerous is that a soviet nuclear submarine sank roughly 100 nautical miles southwest of this spot in 1989 and leaked radioactive material into the water this may have damaged the island's soil too additionally experts think the development of the snowvit gas field has also forever altered the climate would you be willing to set foot in any of these dangerous islands let us know down in the comments section down below also check out our other videos on the world's most fascinating places as always thank you all for watching and i'll see you all next time later everybody

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Length: 11min 50sec (710 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 15 2020