On an island in the Indian Ocean about the size of Manhattan, roughly 50 to 200 people known as the Sentinelese live in complete voluntary isolation — hunting with bows and arrows, speaking a language no outsider has ever understood, and killing every visitor who has come ashore, including an American missionary in 2018

On an island in the Indian Ocean about the size of Manhattan, roughly 50 to 200 people known as the Sentinelese live in complete voluntary isolation — hunting with bows and arrows, speaking a language no outsider has ever understood, and killing every visitor who has come ashore, including an American missionary in 2018

On Saturday, 17 November 2018, at approximately 3:00 in the afternoon local time, on the eastern shore of an approximately 60-square-kilometre uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal that the Indian government designates on its cartographic surveys as North Sentinel Island — approximately 50 kilometres west of Port Blair, the capital of the Indian Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and approximately Manhattan-sized in surface ar…