People Are Afraid to Come to This Island, Here’s Why

There’s a beautiful island in the Atlantic Ocean 25 miles off the coast of Brazil, and it’s one of the strangest places on Earth. It’s easy to reach, has an endless beach line, steep rocks to climb, and vibrant tropical greenery. Yet there isn’t a single hotel here, no one’s hiking on all those rocks, no one’s watching sunsets by the ocean, and you’ll never see kids build sand castles on the beach. People left this island a long time ago and will unlikely ever come back to live here.

The island has been long since taken over by creatures you’d rather never meet. Ilha da Queimada Grande has the highest concentration of venomous snakes in the world! It’s the only natural habitat of the golden lancehead viper, one of the most dangerous snakes on the planet. Somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 of these critters live here. They say you’re never more than 3 feet (90 cm) away from meeting one of them on the island! But how did the snakes end up in the middle of the ocean?

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TIMESTAMPS:
How the snakes ended up in the middle of the ocean 1:25
What happened to a human population 2:32
How you can visit the island 3:54
The place where snakes share beds with the locals 4:17
The most isolated tribes on the planet 5:14
The island where everyone wears a gas mask 5:50
Island of storms 7:10
The loneliest island in the world 7:45
The most dangerous small mountain on the planet 8:23

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Ilha da Queimada Grande: By Prefeitura Municipal de Itanhaém, CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19864100
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A golden lancehead viper held in the Biological Museum, Instituto Butantan: By Nayeryouakim, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55228305
An itinerant salesman adorned with a snake selling trinkets: By Wellcome Collection gallery, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36501712
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