Short Stuff: North Sentinel Island

简短之篇:北森提内尔岛

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2025-09-10

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One of the last uncontacted people in the world live in the Bay of Bengal and they have made it clear they don’t want you to visit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Hey, and welcome to the short stuff.

  • Josh, you're Chuck here.

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  • And this is short stuff.

  • Yeah, I kept thinking we had covered this, but I don't think we covered it this specifically.

  • And what made me think of this was the other day I saw a video that was a drone flying over North Sentinel Island.

  • Yeah, and these, you know, this uncontacted tribe looking up,

  • obviously, and they were pretty high up.

  • They weren't buzzing them, I will say that.

  • But I was also like, and I was heartened to find the Instagram comments were mainly like,

  • please leave them alone, largely.

  • But North Sentinel Island is part of a larger island chain called the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

  • And the Bay of Bengal, about 700 miles off of India,

  • And it is noteworthy

  • because anywhere between 50 and 500 of these Sentinelese people live there completely uncontacted,

  • even though they're like maybe 20 miles away from islands that have incorporated some modern spoils.

  • Yeah, and they live essentially in the same manner as Neolithic hunter-gatherers.