You can't relax on these islands (17 photos)

When we hear an island (especially with the adjective “tropical”), our minds immediately come up with associations about beautiful wildlife, clear oceans and unusual birds soaring above palm trees.





But the reality is that not all of them came straight off the Blue Lagoon movie poster. There are several islands in the world that are very scary. It can be scary to step on them, let alone soak up the sun.

Snake Island (Brazil)



Splendor. The island seems to have come straight out of a stock photo site with the description “tropical paradise” - the weather is excellent, there is sun 320 days a year, and the beaches cannot be compared with Fiji or Hawaii.





Everything is great, except for a small detail: those who want to relax on the island will need to put up with snakes. The bite of the snakes swarming there will cause rapid respiratory paralysis in a person and death will be, although quick, but very painful.

Ramree Island (Myanmar)



At first glance, the island looks nice, but it is precisely this island that saltwater crocodiles chose for their habitat. There are a lot of these terrible and very voracious creatures living on Ramri.



There is an example in history of the bloodthirstiness of crocodiles: in 1945, British soldiers were able to push a Japanese regiment into the swampy part of the island.

The Japanese, realizing where they were, tried to escape, but only a hundred soldiers succeeded. All the rest were eaten by crocodiles. Here is such a sad record for an attack by a tribe of crocodiles, which ended up in the Guinness Book of Records.

Renaissance Island



Calling him that was quite ironic. Today it is divided between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The Aral Sea dried up and the island connected with the mainland. That is, technically it is no longer an island.

In 1948, the USSR set up a laboratory for testing biological weapons here. Tularemia, smallpox, anthrax, etc...



Bubonic plague bacteria and anthrax spores are still buried on the island and in 1992 no one else remained there. In 2000, with the help of the United States, ten anthrax burial sites were destroyed, but it is still forbidden to approach the island, because a number of containers leaked.

Those residents who live near Renaissance Island suffer from diseases and genetic mutations.

Saba Island (Caribbean Sea)



If you land on the island from the leeward side, then this is a real paradise. But the windward, western side looks like the scenery of a horror film: dry bushes, weathered rocks that have almost turned to dust, a cold wind from which you cannot hide. It was the wind that was responsible for the destruction of this part of Saba Island.



There is a legend that pirates used this part of the island to brutally execute traitors: they threw them ashore, without water and without food. The poor fellows died from thirst, hunger, scorching sun and constant wind. A terrible death, what can I say.

Bikini Island (Marshall Islands)



The atoll is located in the western part of the Pacific Ocean and can safely be included in the list of the most dangerous islands on planet Earth. But why?

It is around this island that a terrifying number of sharks gather. Many of them are so large that they can actually be dangerous to humans, despite the fact that most sharks are quite harmless to them (because humans are too big a game).

Well, the second point is the high level of radiation. From 1946 to the end of the 50s, it was on this island that nuclear bomb tests were carried out, which destroyed almost all the plants and animals of the island.



By the way, the atoll was not empty until the startand tests: the population was forcibly removed from the island, with the exception of a few dozen people. For years, the islanders died from the effects of radiation sickness.

Ten years after the tests, authorities said they could bring back those who had been taken back, but the radiation levels in the water and soil were still too high. The children and grandchildren of those island residents who dared to return suffer from genetic diseases and mutations, not to mention oncology, the mortality rate from which is several times higher than in other Marshall Islands.

Poveglia Island (Italy)



The shores of the island, located in the Venetian lagoon, began to be avoided back in the days of the Roman Empire. Sailors and fishermen tried to avoid it, because Poveglia was a quarantine zone - plague patients were taken there. They were buried there. It was believed that any guest who stepped onto these lands would disturb the dead and the epidemic would return.



In the 1920s, a psychiatric hospital was opened on the island. Not only real patients, but also those who were disliked by the regime of Benito Mussolini could end up in the hospital. People in the hospital were abused as best they could: experimental operations, humiliation, cruel torture, and even a lobotomy that turned a person into a vegetable.

Miyakejima Island (Japan)



On a tiny island, right in the center, is the large Oyama volcano. The last time he “lost his temper” was in 2000, and the inhabitants of the island were seriously affected by the release of poisonous gas from the earth.



The population was urgently taken out and was not allowed to return home for about five years. Then everyone could come to Miyakejima, but gas emissions still occur periodically. The residents have adapted and always have a gas mask with them, in case Oyama decides to “wake up” again.

North Sentinel Island (India)



It is located near the coast of Bengal. Aboriginal people live on many islands of the Andaman group, including this one. The tribe there is relatively small - about 500 people, but all the inhabitants of the island hate anyone who even tries to land on their land.



Representatives of the tribe often kill fishermen, scientists and ordinary tourists who set foot on the shore of the island. By the way, one of these victims once became John Allen Chau, an American missionary and preacher. It is not clear that he could not sit quietly, but he decided to bring the word of God to the aborigines of the island, with the goal of converting them to Christianity. The islanders listened with interest to John's few words, and then cooked him for dinner (“with beans and good Chianti”).