The worlds most dangerous islands where you definitely don't want to be washed ashore
Number 1:Ilha da Queimada, Brazil
Ilha da Queimada, nicknamed Snake Island, lies off the coast
of Brazil and is home to thousands of Golden Lancehead Vipers – and little else. The snakes are among the world's most venomous, and there is, according to local legend, around five of the slithering critters to every square metre. For years, the only human inhabitant was a lighthouse keeper but now the Brazilian Navy has banned all civilians from the island. Located 150 kilometers off the coast of São Paulo in Brazil is the uninhabited island of Ilha da Queimada Grande, or as it's more commonly known, 'Snake Island'. The snakes became trapped on the island when rising sea levels covered up the land that connected it to the mainland. The ensuing selection pressure allowed the snakes to adapt to their new environment, increasing rapidly in population and rendering the island dangerous to public visitation. One poisonous bite from the Golden Lancehead pit viper is enough to kill a grown man within a few hours. It's fast-acting venom will burn through flesh and cause its victim to bleed to death.
Saba is known as the "Unspoiled Queen" of the Caribbean. Saba is especially known for its ecotourism, having exceptional scuba diving, climbing and hiking. The Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport offers flights to and from the nearby islands of St. The Caribbean island in the Lesser Antilles chain is a special municipality of the Netherlands. If you ever want to visit, make sure it’s during the winter. It has been hit by more major storms since 1851 than any other place on Earth. A total of 64 severe hurricanes passed through the island until 2010, according to the Caribbean Hurricane Network. This is one every two and half years.
Native Americans called the Farallon Islands the "Islands of the Dead" and mariners referred to them as "the devil's teeth" for their ragged profile and treacherous shores. But the name that stuck was the Spanish Farallon, meaning a rocky promontory jutting from the ocean. The first mention of the name is in the diary of Friar Antonio de la Ascension who passed the area in a ship with the 1603 expedition of Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaino. A handful of researchers and scientists with Point Blue Conservation live in one of those homes on Southeast Farallon and they have been monitoring wildlife population trends for 50 years. "With our long-term datasets, we are capable of providing the refuge with accurate trend estimates that helps the refuge manage the wildlife," says Jim Tietz, a program biologist with Point Blue who spends much of his year on the islands. "This is one of the longest running collaborations between a government agency and a non-profit organization." The remaining islands are uninhabited.
Number 7:Ramree Island, Myanmar
This island, off the coast of Myanmar (Burma), is famous for a gruesome incident that occurred during the Second World War. In 1945, following fighting between British and Japanese troops, an estimated 400 Japanese soldiers were forced to flee into the marshes that surround the island, where they were apparently set upon by the island's sizeable population of saltwater crocodiles. The incident is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, The Greatest Disaster Suffered [by humans] from Animals.
The Ramree Island crocodile attacks would have been the worst recorded in history. The British Burma Star Association seems to lend credence to the swamp attack stories but appears to draw a distinction between the twenty Japanese survivors of one attack and the 900 Japanese who were left to fend for themselves in the swamp. In his memoir, An Odyssey in War and Peace, Lieutenant-General Jack Jacob (Indian Army) recounted his experiences during the battle,
Over a 1000 soldiers of the Japanese garrison retreated into the crocodile-infested mangrove swamps. We went in with boats and interpreters using loudhailers asking them to come out. Not a single one did. Salt-water crocodiles, some of them well over 20 ft. in length frequented these waters. It is not difficult to imagine what happened to the Japanese who took refuge in the mangroves. The island holds the world-record for largest human massacre caused by animals.
Number8: Danger Island
The Danger Islands is a group of small islands lying 24 km east-south-east of Joinville Island near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
.Found 800 kilometers south of the Maldives, The name is thought to derive from the lack of safe anchorage, which made trips to the island particularly risky for early explorers. Several years earlier, the professor's brother (also an archaeologist) disappeared in the same island chain while searching for the mythical lost city of Tobanya. They are joined on their quest by Morgan, a shipwrecked merchant mariner, and his sidekick Chongo, who speaks only in a series of monkey-like chatters and birdcalls. They are pursued by a group of bumbling, but heavily armed, modern-day pirates led by the murderous Captain Mu-Tan, and by three tribes of cannibal natives known as "the Headhunters", "the Skeleton Men" and "the Ash Men. This Unesco World Heritage Site is dangerous for two reasons: nuclear radiation and sharks. It was the site of more than 20 nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1958, and – although the islands were declared 'safe' in 1997 – their original inhabitants have refused to return.
Also watch
