Outsiders are strictly forbidden from going to North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov set foot on North Sentinel Island, part of India's Andaman Islands, in a bid to meet the Sentinelese people. He left behind a can of Diet Coke and a coconut and ...

Indian police have arrested an American YouTuber, accusing him of traveling to the remote North Sentinel ... people, police said. A review of his GoPro footage showed he had entered the island ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel — part of India's Andaman ... miles of the island to protect the Indigenous people from outside diseases ...

Indian police have arrested an American ... made two unsuccessful attempts to reach North Sentinel Island, home of the Sentinelese people. An American tourist who snuck onto a highly restricted ...

A daredevil YouTube influencer has been arrested after visiting a remote Indian island, where he tried to make illegal contact with indigenous people ... the restricted North Sentinel Island ...

Visiting the island is prohibited by Indian law to maintain ... by tribespeople after he arrived on North Sentinel Island, hoping to convert the local people to Christianity.

For the Sentinelese people, the island is their world ... safety of both its inhabitants and outsiders. Under Indian law, North Sentinel Island is a protected tribal reserve, and entry within ...

was arrested on March 31, two days after he set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel Island — part of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands — in a bid to meet people from the ...

Estimates suggest that 100-150 Sentinelese live on North Sentinel Island. India has banned anyone from ... attract the attention of the Sentinelese people by repeatedly blowing a whistle from ...

Well, for those who don’t know, North Sentinel Island is a lush, forested speck in India’s Andaman and Nicobar ... For the Sentinelese people, the island is their world, they exist without ...