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<ul><li>The local police are reportedly investigating and a case of murder has been registered. </li><li>The Sentinelese are among <keyword id="3658" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>’s protected tribes and the <keyword id="4375910" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="north-sentinel-island">North Sentinel Island</keyword> is out of bounds for even Indian authorities. </li><li>The American national was reportedly attacked by arrows and had taken a fishing boat to the island to interact with the tribe.</li></ul> An American tourist was allegedly killed by members of the Sentinelese tribe, a remote indigenous tribe on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands with almost no contact with the outside world, according to reports. The Sentinelese tribe, which has a small population of under 50, lives on the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The tribe is one of India’s protected tribes and is said to resist contact with outsiders. The American national has been identified as 27-year-old John Allen Chau, <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/india-usa-murder/american-killed-on-remote-indian-island-barred-to-visitors-idINKCN1NQ0RR">Reuters</a> reported citing local police officials. The local police are currently investigating and a case of murder had been registered, said the report. Chau had a strong desire to interact with the Sentinelese and had hired a fishing boat before taking a canoe, said the report. According to an AFP <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/us-tourist-killed-by-arrow-shooting-indian-tribe-in-remote-north-sentinel-island">report</a> which cited sources, Chau was “attacked by arrows but he continued walking." As a protected island, even the Indian navy isn’t allowed to interact with its inhabitants. Andaman and Nicobar islands is home to several protected tribes that live in. A spokeswoman for the US consulate in Chennai reportedly said it was aware of the reports about the incident.

American tourist allegedly killed by a remote indigenous tribe on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands that had little contact with the outside world

Google Earth and Strategic SentinelSatellite images of the islands being built by North Korea that possibly contain military establishments.North Korea is building artificial islands and what look like military installations in the Yellow Sea, the Los Angeles Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-north-korea-islands-20170503-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> Wednesday.Satellite images show that the North has been building the islands for about five years around Sohae, a city about 70 miles northwest of Pyongyang. Sohae is a <a href="http://thediplomat.com/2017/05/north-koreas-mysterious-new-islands/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">research and development</a> center for intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technology.About five years ago, three of the islands were merely rocky specks with trees, and two others were nothing but sand. But as of December 2016, the five islands seem to have features consistent with military facilities, such as wide roads and rectangular concrete lots. But the islands and installations are <a href="http://thediplomat.com/2017/05/north-koreas-mysterious-new-islands/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">not uniform</a> in size or structure, and so their purposes are not clear and could all be different. They could be used for missile launches, anti-aircraft weapons or anti-ship weapons. They could also simply be used for agriculture. "We can't make definitive statements as to what these islands are being used for," Ryan Barenklau, chief executive of Strategic Sentinel, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-north-korea-islands-20170503-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told</a> the Times. But he added that they're probably for military purposes.The islands have winding roads that could be used for transporter erector launchers, which are large, missile-bearing trucks. Light patches on the rectangular lots also indicate heat-resistant cement for launch pads. However, <a href="http://thediplomat.com/2017/05/north-koreas-mysterious-new-islands/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">building</a> Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) pads on these islands would not be strategically wise. Anti-air missiles and missile silos would be the wiser choice, but it's still difficult to tell from the satellite images. The islands also "have observation areas, for someone like [the country's leader] Kim Jong-un to observe a missile launch," Barenklau told the Times. "Every time we see VIP buildings, that tells us there's most likely a military application, because Kim Jong-un likes to view the operations of whatever they're building."ReutersNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a flight drill of fighter pilots from the Korean People's Army's (KPA) Air and Anti-Air Force, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on February 21, 2016.Barenklau said that they couldn't tell what the purpose of the islands were at first, "but when we saw the observation decks, we thought, those are military."But "the North Koreans build just about everything for dual purpose," Steve Sin, a researcher on unconventional weapons and technology at the University of Maryland, told the Times. "So, building something that is of military use on an agricultural project is certainly within its usual pattern."Some of the islands appear to be part of a North Korean project consisting of fish, duck and oyster farms. North Korea has even been known to <a href="https://www.stripes.com/news/photos-indicate-n-korea-using-airport-as-alternate-launch-facility-1.422911?platform=hootsuite#.WQtF_BMrKi5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">test</a> missiles at civilian airports. China too has <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-exclusive-china-installs-weapons-systems-on-artificial-islands-us-think-tank-2016-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">built</a> several islands in recent years to sustain it's territorial claims in the South China Sea. Beijing has repeatedly said that the islands are only for civilian purposes, but satellite imagery also points to military establishments as well. North Korea has dramatically <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/missile-tests-north-korea-2017-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">increased</a> its missile launch attempts in the last three years. On April 28, North Korea <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-missile-2017-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">attempted</a> another missile launch, the ninth attempt since President Donald Trump took office. But the US's rhetoric towards Pyongyang has cooled since Vice-President Mike Pence said that the administration would not talk with North Korea, and that "the sword stands ready."Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently <a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/04/28/525766904/transcript-npr-interviews-secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson?utm_campaign=storyshare&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> that Washington would like to engage diplomatically with Pyongyang. On Monday, Trump <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-meet-kim-jong-un-north-korea-2017-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> he'd be "honored" to meet Kim Jong-un. <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/marines-grab-drones-out-of-sky-innovative-skyhook-2017-4">Marines can grab drones right out of the sky with this innovative 'Skyhook'</a></h3> Please enable Javascript to watch this video

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<ul><li>A study revealed unknown facts about the death of the <keyword id="400029" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="American-tourist">american tourist</keyword> who visited one of the India's most isolated tribe. </li><li>The tribe, which has a small population of under 50, lives on the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</li><li> The journal highly recommends preserving the diary of Chau, as it contains his experiences and sketches of the hut. </li></ul> The <keyword id="5220722" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anthropological-Survey">Anthropological Survey</keyword> of India published a research journal, highlighting many unknown facts about the alleged killing of an American tourist by a remote tribe of North Sentinel Island in India, <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/study-sheds-more-light-on-killing-of-american-by-sentinels/article29369181.ece">reported the Hindu</a>. “The tragic death of <keyword id="7051478" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="john-allen-chau">John Allen Chau</keyword> is a matter of grief, but what is equally distressing is the report that the Andaman police have registered a criminal case for murder against the unknown tribesmen,” said M Sasikumar, Deputy director, Anthrolopogy Survey of India. An American tourist who came to preach was murdered with bows and arrows Nine months ago, an American tourist, John Allen Chau<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/american-killed-isolated-indian-tribe-north-sentinel-island">, was allegedly killed by the Sentinelese tribe on November, 2018. </a> Local police charged India's remote indigenous tribe for the murder of the American tourist The tribe, which has a small population of under 50, lives on the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The tribe is one of India’s protected tribes and is said to resist contact with outsiders. As a protected island, even the Indian Navy isn’t allowed to interact with its inhabitants. Andaman and Nicobar islands are home to several protected tribes. The study recommends preserving Chau's journal Chau’s extreme obsession led him to visit the island even when he was aware of the consequences, the study said. Most of the previous visits to the island included observation from a distance. Chau was the only one who spent the whole day with the tribal people with close proximity, Dr. Srivastava, Director, ANsI pointed. The journal highly recommends preserving the diary of Chau, as it contains his experiences and sketches of the hut. “Well I have been shot by the Sentinelese... By a kid probably 10 or so years old, may be a teenager, short compared to those who looked like adults… The little kid shot me with an arrow directly into my Bible which I was holding at my chest... His high pitched voice still lingers in my head,” Chau’s diary said. “I don't want to die. Would it be wiser to leave and let someone else to continue? No I don’t think so,” Chau said in his journal. There are several incidents of murder reported The journal reports many similar incidents in the Island. In March 1896, three convicts tried escaping to the remote area using a raft of bamboos. While the two drowned, tribals killed the third one. Similarly, the tribe also allegedly killed two fishermen in 2006 when they were found stealing a mud crab in the area. All the efforts by the local authorities to contact them were in vain. The tribe also killed and buried the pigs, and a doll offered to them, the journal said. However, Triloknath Pandit was the first and among the very few anthropologists to enter the protected area in 1967. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/american-tourist-allegedly-killed-by-a-remote-indigenous-tribe-on-indias-andaman-and-nicobar-islands-that-had-little-contact-with-the-outside-world/articleshow/66733605.cms">American tourist allegedly killed by a remote indigenous tribe on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands that had little contact with the outside world</a>

Study details American tourist's journey while visiting India's Sentinelese tribe, one of the world's last uncontacted people

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Locals in <keyword id="13417124" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sunny-isles-beach" source="Orion">Sunny Isles Beach</keyword>, <keyword id="11910362" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="florida" source="Orion">Florida</keyword>, will tell you the city is more than its "Little Moscow" nickname.</li><li>The area is home to many post-Soviet Union immigrants, from Ukraine to Belarus.</li></ul>In Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, not everyone likes the nickname "Little Moscow.""I don't believe that 'Little Moscow' is a representation of what Sunny Isles Beach is," Jennifer Levin, former Sunny Isles Beach commissioner, wrote in a Facebook post earlier this month. "And it's not what it was ever meant to be known as, and it's not how it's marketed."I visited the city a few weeks ago, and the Russian influence was palpable, from the Russian grocery and deli Matryoshka to the Sunny Terrace restaurant serving up Siberian-style dumplings. But in the same plaza was an Argentinian restaurant, an Armenian restaurant, and a boutique selling fashion from Brazil. While it's easy to see where the "Little Moscow" nickname comes from, Sunny Isles Beach is overall a melting pot of Eastern European and Latin American influences.One local originally from Ukraine told me that the nickname is never used by the Russian-speaking people who live in the city, adding that the name was created by locals many years ago as a joke. He said some locals are indifferent to the nickname, while others think it's "abusable since we have nothing to do with Moscow."<h2>A seaside escape for Eastern Europeans and Latin Americans</h2>Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the 1.5-mile piece of island was known for its strip of seaside motels. The charming tourist town attracted Russian Jewish immigrants fleeing discrimination, according to <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1997-03-08-9703080123-story.html">a Sun Sentinel article from 1997</a>. Over time, their children would visit and eventually buy property as the market developed, laying the foundation for a strong community.As more Russians flooded into the area to escape communism from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, some of the emigres called the area "Little Moscow," per the Sun Sentinel. The city was a symbol of freedom, and it wasn't just Russians who wanted an escape. Alexandra Peters, of <a href="https://www.onesothebysrealty.com/agents/67059-alexandra-c-peters">ONE Sotheby's International Realty,</a> who works with high-end clients in the area, told me that an overwhelming Russian presence of Sunny Isles Beach is a misconception, as the many Ukrainians living there get mistaken for Russians. "There's always been a large Russian-speaking community in Sunny Isles, but they've been there for decades and many are middle-class US citizens by now," she said. "We tend to put all 'Russians' in one basket, whereas many who live and move here are from all parts of the former Soviet Union: Ukraine, Belarus, even Kyrkistan."It's why the area is <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/little-moscow-community-in-sunny-isles-beach-reacts-to-ukraine-invasion/2699472/">also known as</a> Little Kyiv, Little Odessa, and Little Minsk. According to the <a href="https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=place%20of%20birth&amp;g=1600000US1269555&amp;tid=ACSDT5Y2019.B05006">most recent data from the Census' American Community Survey</a> that tracked population from 2015 to 2019, Sunny Isles Beach is home 2,624 Eastern European-born residents, more residents than those born elsewhere in Europe. Of these, 1,079 were born in Russia. This doesn't take into account those who didn't answer the Census or the Russian-speakers who identify as Americans.The city is also home to a strong Israeli community. And, like much of <keyword id="13505189" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="south-florida" source="Orion">South Florida</keyword>, there's a large immigrant population from Latin America. Census data puts the Latin American-born population at 8,370 people, more than the Eastern European-born. Peters said the area is even known as "Little Brazil."<h2>A luxury development boom brought the rich</h2>The 1990s also saw a development boom that revitalized the city's <keyword id="11893570" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="economy" source="Orion">economy</keyword>. Zoning laws enabled developers to build high-rise condos that towered over the beach. Around this time, a wealthier class of Russians <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-little-moscow-sunny-isles-miami-russian-money-real-estate-2022-3">began snapping up property in the area</a> as a way to move their money in a post-Soviet economy.In recent years, Florida saw the <a href="https://www.nar.realtor/blogs/economists-outlook/the-impact-of-russia-ukraine-tensions-on-the-u-s-housing-market">highest number</a> of Russian property purchases in the US. Sunny Isles Beach was a natural choice given the already strong Russian immigrant population and the area's association with luxury thanks to the towering condos, some of whom held the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-little-moscow-russians-helped-donald-trumps-brand-survive-the-recession/2016/11/04/f9dbd38e-97cf-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html">appeal of the Trump brand</a>.Right before Russia invaded Ukraine, <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianEntin/status/1495950010592157698?s=20&amp;t=QwU0ypvb1mAmecGqDtH0rg">NewsNation's Brian Entin</a> first reported on the concerns of the "Little Moscow" elite who worried that they'll be blacklisted from buying luxury real estate in the area. But it's not just Russian money that flows through Sunny Isles. The city's economy has also been propped up by overseas buyers from Europe and Latin America. Three real estate agents I spoke with often referenced clients from Brazil, Germany, and Canada.Peters provided Insider a screenshot of her website's analytics showing where most potential clients were searching from. Outside of the US, the top three searches came from were Canada, India, and Brazil. Russia didn't even make the top 10. She noted that they used to see more South American buyers, which have dropped because of low currency and travel restrictions. Foreign buyers overall have dropped since the pandemic began, agents said.<a href="https://www.compass.com/agents/ramon-rodriguez/">Ramon Rodriguez</a>, director of sales at a Compass real estate team based in Miami, told me that the area is a luxury riviera for the elite partially because it's anchored by two high-end shopping destinations: Aventura Mall to the north and the Bal Harbour Shops to the south."When you're wealthy and living in a state of fear, you feel very free here," Peters seconded. "You can enjoy life and go shopping."

Locals in South Florida's 'Little Moscow' say the city's nickname is built on a misconception

(<keyword id="7051478" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="john-allen-chau">John Allen Chau</keyword> kayaking the tropics. Photo Source: instagram.com/johnachau) <ul><li>The Indian police are looking for ways to recover the body of the <keyword id="400029" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="American-tourist">American tourist</keyword>, John Allen Chau, who was reportedly killed last week by the <keyword id="7050594" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="sentinelese-tribe">Sentinelese tribe</keyword> on India’s <keyword id="6560173" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Andaman-and-Nicobar">Andaman and Nicobar</keyword> islands. </li><li>The authorities attempted to visit the shore near the remote island to locate the place where the body is suspected to be buried, according to the local fishermen. </li><li>Indian Anthropologist, <keyword id="7065860" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="TN-Pandit">TN Pandit</keyword>, who interacted with the tribe in the 1960s said that the tribe doesn’t usually kill and outsiders have been warned clearly to not enter their region. </li></ul>The local police in India are reportedly trying to understand the death rituals of the <keyword id="5663970" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sentinelese">Sentinelese</keyword> Tribe in a bid to locate the body of the American tourist who was allegedly killed by bows and arrows by tribesmen on the North Sentinel Island in India’s Andaman and Nicobar islands, according to recent media <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/cops-studying-rituals-of-tribe-that-killed-us-man-john-allen-chau-to-recover-his-body-1952922">reports</a>. In a recent development, the local authorities said they are looking for ways to seek the body of the American tourist without trying to ignite a turmoil with the tribe. The police reportedly<a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/officials-retreat-after-andamans-sentinelese-tribe-seen-armed-with-bows-and-arrows-1953034"> took a boat</a> to a point near the shore on Saturday in an attempt to trace the body of the John Allen Chau after the fisherman claimed that they saw his body getting buried on the beach. Moreover, the police are also seeking advice from anthropologists and academics who study the behavior of Sentinelese Tribe following the incident, Dependra Pathak, DGP, Andaman and Nicobar, said in a tweet. 
 
 
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 One of the few anthropologists who interacted with the Sentinelese tribe, TN Pandit, recently said that he was ‘surprised’ by the news that Sentinelese has killed an outsider. He further stated that the Sentinelese do not kill people. In fact, they warn people for not trespassing in their region, Economic Times <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/surprised-the-sentinelese-killed-someone-first-anthropologist-to-enter-north-sentinel-island/articleshow/66787948.cms">reported</a> citing Pandit.

Local police struggle to recover the body of the American tourist who was killed by Sentinelese tribe in India

Travel means different things to different people. A short flight followed by a taxi transfer to a stylish resort with an inviting pool satisfies many people’s needs. But for those with time to spare and incurable wanderlust, there are plenty of exotic, hard-to-reach destinations that involve a lot more plan­ning than does a long weekend in Phuket. Mobile phone signals aren’t guaranteed in the following places but travel bragging rights definitely are. These destinations even come with their own superlatives. Even in a list of desolate destinations, Pitcairn Island wins by some distance. Best known as the 18th century hiding place of mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty, no inhabited island is further from a mainland. The British Overseas Territory is barely more accessible today than it was in 1790. Anyone planning to visit from Hong Kong would need to fly to <keyword id="4741" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tokyo">Tokyo</keyword> for a connection to Papeete, in Tahiti, from where there are two four-hour flights a week to Mangareva, in the Gambier Islands. It’s then a 32-hour trip to Pitcairn aboard a supply boat that departs only every three months. A few years ago, officials launched a campaign to encourage people to join the isolated community. Only one person applied. The world’s coldest permanently settled area, Oymyakon shivers in the Siberian permafrost a two-day drive across the Russian <keyword id="101920" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tundra">tundra</keyword> from the nearest airport. Winter in the gold mining town is so frigid that drivers leave their car engines running all day to keep them from seizing up. Students are expected to attend classes unless the mercury falls below minus 52 degrees Celsius (-61.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and newly arrived visitors are reminded that saliva freezes in open mouths, glasses stick to faces and batteries last only a few minutes. Few crops survive in temperatures that can plummet to a bone-chilling minus 70 degrees and locals make do with reindeer meat, raw flesh shaved from frozen fish and ice cubes of horse blood with macaroni. Based on a year-round average temperature of 34.5 degrees Celsius (94.1 degrees Fahrenheit), the Danakil Depression is the hottest place on Earth. The inhospitable desert in northern <keyword id="61936" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</keyword> is also one of the lowest points on the planet, at 125 metres below sea level. Visitors need to tread carefully – the surreal landscape is littered with sulphur springs, geysers, acidic pools, huge salt pans, volcanoes and multicoloured mineral lakes. Amazingly, there is human activity at the “gateway to hell”. More than 700 officially registered salt miners toil in the furnace-like conditions for about US$7 per day. Located in the Bay of Bengal, more than 1,300km (807 miles) off the east coast of India, the Andaman Islands are the peaks of a submerged <keyword id="6439698" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="mountain">mountain</keyword> range. The tropical archipelago boasts pristine beaches, coral reefs and an abundance of wildlife. Of the 572 islands, only about 30 are inhabited, one of which is regarded as the most difficult place to set foot on as it’s home to the world’s most isolated tribe. North Sentinel Island gained notoriety last year when an American tourist was killed by bow and arrow-wielding Sentinelese warriors, having ignored warnings from fisherman not to go ashore. An out-of-the-way settlement in a hard-to-reach country, Ittoqqortoormiit is the remotest inhabited community in the western hemisphere. Weekly flights to this distant corner of Greenland require an onward helicopter transfer to the village, although for a month or two in summer, cruise ships are able to negotiate the ice­berg-infested waters. The 450 inhabitants rely on fishing and hunting (including an annual quota of 35 polar bears) for survival and let off steam by dog sledding and snowmobile camping trips along the banks of Scoresby Sund. The world’s longest fjord serves as a gateway to Northeast Greenland National Park, the world’s largest. The luxury resorts of the Maldives are easy enough to reach, usually with a sea­plane or speedboat transfer after a long-haul flight. For something more quirky, book a flight to Gan. From 1941 to 1976, the southernmost island in the archipelago served as a British Navy and <keyword id="113964" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Royal-Air-Force">Royal Air Force</keyword> base. Much of the military infrastructure remains, including the airfield, parade ground, a mildewing art deco cinema and rows of low-rise garrison buildings. The British also built a causeway linking Gan to three neighbouring islands – the resulting 18km (11-mile) road is the longest in the Maldives. The beguiling beauty of Wadi Rum feels older than time. For centuries only nomadic Bedouins were able to survive in the inhospitable desert, situated in the far south of Jordan, the safest country in the Middle East. Then along came charismatic British officer T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), who led an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire from Wadi Rum during the first world war. His description of the other­worldly desert formations and empty landscape as “vast, echoing and God-like” is as accurate today as it was a century ago. Gan, in the Maldives. Photo: Tim Pile The most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, volcanic <keyword id="1046045" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tristan-da-Cunha">Tristan da Cunha</keyword> lies 2,432km (1,511 miles) west of Cape Town. Another British Overseas Territory, the main island is home to 246 residents with nine different surnames. About 400km (249 miles) south and unin­habit­ed except for six weather station personnel, Gough Island is possib­ly the world’s least accessible world heritage site. Appropriately enough, it shares the Unesco designation with Inaccessible Island, 30km (19 miles) southwest of Tristan. The only way of reaching this far-flung South Atlantic bolt-hole is by ship from Cape Town – a seven-day sailing that operates nine times a year. More than six million tourists visited Grand Canyon National Park in 2018 but hidden away in the craggy sandstone formations lies the only village inside the canyon. Supai is the capital of the <keyword id="8232283" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Havasupai">Havasupai</keyword> Indian Reservation and the “people of the blue-green water” inhabit what has been described as the most remote community in the lower 48 states. Despite being just 13km (8 miles) from the nearest road, the only way to reach the settlement and stunning turquoise waterfalls is by helicopter, mule or on foot. Located 480km (298 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, Utqiagvik, <keyword id="20636" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Alaska">Alaska</keyword>, is the northernmost town in the United States. When the sun sets in mid-November, it doesn’t rise again for 65 days. There are no roads in or out, so the Iñupiaq Eskimo settlement is accessible only by plane from Anchorage, or barge during the brief summer months. Locals still hunt and fish, but that’s partly because supermarket prices are among the highest in the world.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>There's an isolated tribe living on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean, and they want nothing to do with modern society.The people of North Sentinel Island, called the Sentinelese, are considered an "uncontacted tribe," meaning they have little to no contact with the outside world.They've never developed agriculture - they still practice hunting and gathering, like all humans did prior to the development of agriculture about 10,000 years ago. There's been so little contact with the group that very few photos exist, beyond those taken far from shore or from the air.But unlike uncontacted tribes hidden away in places like the Amazon Rainforest, we've known about the Sentinelese for centuries, and they want nothing to do with us. They have violently rejected contact with the groups of various nationalities that have attempted to communicate with the tribe, from colonial European explorers to the Indian coast guard. Other than a few isolated trips by anthropologists, they've greeted visitors - and shipwreck survivors - with arrows.As an important caveat, referring to tribes as living outside of "modern society" is a bit of a misnomer, since all cultures on earth today are modern cultures - technological advancement&#xa0;not required.Here's how the Sentinelese have managed to ward off outside society for so long.

This isolated tribe has rejected contact for centuries and remained hostile toward outsiders

John Sonntag/IceBridge/NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterA 300-foot-wide, 70-mile-long rift in Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf, as seen in November 2016.<ul><li>Antarctica is about to lose a very large iceberg that could calve "within days" or hours.</li><li>New satellite data shows that when it breaks off, the iceberg will rival the volume of Lake Michigan.</li><li>Human activity isn't likely responsible for this event, but carbon emissions are driving other worrisome changes to Antarctic ice.</li></ul>A large, meandering crack in an Antarctic ice shelf is about to create a colossal iceberg, and new satellite data gives a better sense of its mind-boggling size.A research group in the UK previously estimated the iceberg's area as roughly that of the US state of Delaware. However, Europe's ice-monitoring satellite CryoSat recently took the most precise measurements to date of the ice block's thickness, allowing scientists to gauge its total volume.Researchers noticed the distinctive crack in the continent's Larsen C ice shelf in 2010, but that rift has been growing rapidly since 2016. Now only a few miles of ice are keeping the chunk of ice connected to Larsen C. When the crack splits open, the resulting iceberg entering the Southern Ocean will be about 620 feet (190 meters) thick and harbor some 277 cubic miles (1,155 cubic kilometers) of ice, said <a href="http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/~ngourme2/Home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Noel Gourmelen</a>, a glaciologist at the University of Edinburgh, in an European Space Agency <a href="http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/CryoSat/Giant_iceberg_in_the_making" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">press release</a>.That's big enough to fill more than 460 million Olympic-size swimming pools with ice, or nearly all of Lake Michigan - one of the largest freshwater reservoirs in the world.Below is a 3D animation that Gourmelen and the ESA released on July 5, which shows the iceberg's dimensions: And here's Lake Michigan for a size comparison:Google Maps; Business InsiderThe volume of Lake Michigan and the iceberg that's about to calve from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf are roughly comparable.The iceberg could break off of Antarctica "within days," researchers previously said. When it does, scientists aren't sure what will happen."It could, in fact, even calve in pieces or break up shortly after. Whole or in pieces, ocean currents could drag it north, even as far as the Falkland Islands,"Anna Hogg, a glaciologist at the University of Leeds, said in the ESA release. (Those islands lie more than 1,000 miles away from Larsen C in Antarctica.)<h2>A block of ice thousands of years in the making</h2><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctica_ice_shelves.svg">Diti Torterat/Wikipedia (CC BY 2.0)</a>Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf is one of the largest such shelves in the southern continent.According to <a href="https://twitter.com/MIDASOnIce/status/874401853768859648">a Twitter post</a> from the Impact of Melt on Ice Shelf Dynamics and Stability project, known as Project MIDAS, "most of the ice that calves off fell as snow on the ice shelf in the past few hundred years, but there's an inner core that's a bit older." Project MIDAS announced in early June that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/antarctica-giant-iceberg-breaking-off-2017-6">satellite images</a> showed the rift had split, turned north, and begun moving toward the Southern Ocean.<a href="http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/science/geography/a.luckman/">Adrian Luckman</a> of Swansea University in the UK has been closely monitoring Larsen C with his colleagues at Project MIDAS, and released an animation of the rift's rapid growth (below) that shows how it "jumps" as it <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/antarctica-giant-crack-growing-fast-larsen-c-2017-5">slices through bands of weak ice.</a> The ocean is shown in emerald green (top right), the Larsen C ice shelf is the light-blue patch, and the glacier behind it is depicted in white. It's impossible to say precisely when the rift will snap the ice off, but recent satellite images have <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/antarctica-larsen-c-iceberg-calving-accelerating-2017-6">upped the stakes</a> for the iceberg's eventual calving."New Sentinel-1 data today continues to show the rift opening more rapidly. We can't claim iceberg calving yet, but it won't be long now," Martin O'Leary, a glaciologist with Project MIDAS, posted on the group's Twitter account <a href="https://twitter.com/MIDASOnIce/status/880815699723259904">June 30</a>.According to <a href="http://www.projectmidas.org/blog/berg-acceleration/">the latest measurements</a> by the Sentinel-1 satellite, the crack needs to grow just 3 more miles to cut off the giant iceberg.Project MidasSatellite images modified by the MIDAS project to show how fast the Larsen C ice shelf is moving.<h2>Are humans behind this?</h2>When the iceberg does calve, its eventual melt will not significantly raise sea levels, since the ice already sitting in the ocean and displacing that water. But Luckman and O'Leary said that once Larsen C loses the the soon-to-calve iceberg, the rest of the shelf "will be less stable than it was prior to the rift".Put another way: There's a very slim chance that this break could cause the entire Larsen C ice shelf, and an ancient glacier behind it, to slowly disintegrate and fall into the sea.The chaos wouldn't be unprecedented. In 2002, a neighboring ice shelf called Larsen B collapsed and broke up in the Southern Ocean. This animation captures that event unfolding from January 31 through April 13, 2002: If Larsen C and its accompanying glacial ice collapse, some scientists think sea levels may rise by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/antarctica-giant-iceberg-breaking-off-2017-6">up to four inches</a>.However, Antarctic ice experts point out that such a loss is exceedingly unlikely, and would mostly be due to natural processes."Large calving events such as this are normal processes of a healthy ice sheet, ones that have occurred for decades, centuries, millennia - on cycles that are much longer than a human or satellite lifetime," <a href="http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/hafricker" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Helen Amanda Fricker</a>, a glaciologist who studies Antarctic ice at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, wrote in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/23/melting-and-cracking-is-antarctica-falling-apart-climate-change">an opinion column</a> for The Guardian. "What looks like an enormous loss is just ordinary housekeeping for this part of Antarctica."Buy Fricker warned that we shouldn't be complacent about <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/paris-climate-change-limits-100-years-2017-6">climate change</a>, which is mostly being driven by human activity."Antarctic ice shelves overall are seeing accelerated thinning, and the ice sheet is losing mass in key sectors of Antarctica," she said. "Continuing losses might soon lead to an irreversible decline." <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/antarctica-giant-crack-growing-fast-larsen-c-2017-5">Scientists figured out why a giant crack in Antarctica is growing so fast, and it points to an even bigger problem</a></h3> Please enable Javascript to watch this video

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Kate Munsch/ReutersGrand Princess passengers were quarantined after a COVID-19 outbreak onboard the Princess Cruises ship.<ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-princess-cruises-suspends-operations-2-months-covid-19-2020-3">Princess Cruises</a> is shuttering operations for two months in response to the coronavirus. </li><li>Prospective customers of Princess or its parent company the Carnival Corporation took to Twitter to react to the news.</li><li>Other posters discussed what the COVID-19 pandemic means for their own vacation plans.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the travel and tourism industries, as well as individual vacationers' best-laid plans. After COVID-19 outbreaks on the Diamond Princess and the Grand Princess, Princess Cruises opted to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-princess-cruises-suspends-operations-2-months-covid-19-2020-3">suspend</a> all cruise operations for two months starting Thursday. The move comes after Carnival Corporation, which owns Princess Cruises, has predicted that the outbreak will be harmful to its bottom line in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/carnival-royal-caribbean-predicting-financial-hit-from-coronavirus-2020-2">future earnings</a>. Previously, the company had taken steps in order to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/carnival-royal-caribbean-taking-steps-to-protect-against-coronavirus-2020-2">mitigate</a> coronavirus fears, including offering screening and banning passengers who'd recently visited mainland China.In response to the news, Princess and Carnival customers immediately took to social media to discuss the current impact of the coronavirus on their personal travel plans. One such poster was Robert Dennis, who just canceled his a five-day Carnival cruise to the Bahamas. Dennis told Business Insider that he felt Carnival handled the situation well, given the circumstances. He received an email from the company on March 6, offering guests worried over the outbreak a potential out."We continue to implement increased monitoring, screening, and sanitation protoocls to protect the health of our guests, crew, and the residents of the destinations we serve," Carnival guest service VP Colleen Oliverio wrote in a memo to guests viewed by Business Insider.Passengers who chose to retain their booking "as currently rescheduled" would receive onboard credits between $100 and $200 per cabin depending on the length of their cruise. For guests booked on cruises between March 9 and March 31, Carnival offered to "move your booking to a future date up to 3 days before sailing." Meanwhile, anyone booked on a cruise setting sail between April 1 and may 31 had the option to "move your booking to a future date by March 31."Dennis and his party ultimately decided to rebook, after US President Donald Trump's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/c-span-trump-speech-camera-still-rolling-hot-mic-2020-3">speech</a> on March 11. They called and waited on hold for about an hour before giving up and submitting a rebook request via Carnival's website.He said he felt the company was handling things well, given the circumstances."I feel bad for them because this is the kind of thing that just absolutely just kills their industry," Dennis told Business Insider. "I know that they probably are completely overloaded with people wanting to change and what not. It's not their fault that all this has happened and everybody wants to change their trip."Dennis said he would have preferred to have talked to a Carnival representative, but understands that the company likely "had thousands and thousands of people calling in" and "only so many people manning the phones."Other prospective Carnival guests chimed in on Twitter to ask questions, praise the cruise line operators, and discuss their updated travel plans - or lack thereof.But the reactions aren't limited to just Princess or Carnival customers. Plenty of others have taken to social media over the past few days to post about their vacation plans. Some social media users took travel disruptions in their stride, posting humorous observations about the epidemic's impact on travel plans.Others expressed disappointment and anxiety, saying they either had been forced to cancel trip itineraries or were considering pulling the plug on plans.Are you an employee for Carnival Cruise Lines or Princess Cruise Lines? Have you been a passenger on a cruise ship recently, or did you have your trip canceled? Business Insider wants to hear from you. Email acain@businessinsider.com. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/stories-slide-deck?IR=T&amp;itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=ctgr_bii&amp;itm_term=ctgr_leadgen&amp;itm_content=socialmedia&amp;itm_campaign=stories-slide-deck"></a> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-myths-debunked-wuhan-china-2020-2">Pathologists debunk 13 myths about the coronavirus, including why masks won't help</a></h3>

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