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AFAIKS the location is...longitude=92.21251567730313, latitude=11.59355821041891 I used the photos of the crew rescue at http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=8593 to confirm what I see with Google Earth. http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=North_Sentinel_Island:M.V._Primrose¶ms=11_35_36_N_92_12_45_E_type:wreck Fromthehill ( talk) 11:57, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
I got two photograph in my photo album of “salvage” in my website and also in my facebook.
I was employed on board MT.MISSISIPPI, a salvage Tug, as a chief officer, with a Dutch Master and Thais + Phillipino crew, owned by Smit International BV, from my log-book shown that on 3rd of August 1981, while on stationed at Ao Tub-lamu, Phang-nga province Thailand, at midnight, we heard the signal SOS from mv.Primrose aground at North Sentinel Island and get ready to sail. I myself took the helm as per Dutch’s rule bound to N.Sentinel Island, after 410 N.miles, on early morning of 5th August 1981, and found mv.Primrose was in the lagoon, and we could not send the line because it was the reef. You can see the photograph, while communicated by VHF, the ship requested to run from the ship as soon as possible because the inhabitants was building the boat by log-wood and fired the stone by wooden gun to the ship, and they are ugly and hungry to fight, and of course we cannot do any things too much because cannot go by rubber-boat, until an Indian warship was seen in the pictures, came to the ground for assistant and the naval officers told us that they will use the helicopter to pick up those crew. Mississippi was standby there until 21st August 1981,and returned to our base at Penang, Malaysia. I learned later that, later after Cyclone season our Smit Salvage had work for take her out,and Primrose been scrapped not too long times ago.
I have TWO photographs on that date,and will try to post to you on somewhere which if find out. — Preceding
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What taluk?-- Kaiyr ( talk) 04:29, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
The two articles are about the same island. This one may have useful details for the other one, so this is in lieu of A10 speedy deletion. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 03:17, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
-- 46.130.139.84 ( talk) 11:00, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
The map links redirect to the South Sentinel Island — Preceding unsigned comment added by 240F:46:378F:1:557E:6CEF:2B08:913F ( talk) 03:47, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
Interestingly, there are two more wrecks visible on the southern coast of the island: 11°31'14.40"N 92°13'23.57"E. Satellite-Imagery taken in 2009 and 2011 suggests that these wrecks appeared within this timeframe which also makes it impossible that these wrecks have any connection to the 2006 incident. Has anybody got information on these ones? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:C36:8300:64BB:8D25:8216:6699 ( talk) 05:17, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
User:Filpro- instead of reverting without explanation (deeply offensive and unconstructive) and removing references with no explanation (vandalism), can you clarify how political status is not encyclopedic? You don't think this is going to help readers understand the subject? Wikipedia is not the place to battle for India's territorial sovereignty- which isn't even disputed. Ribbet32 ( talk) 07:50, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
This is really ridiculous. If I delete a section claiming that Napoleon had base in Antarctica would I need to present a source denying that? How would I even be able to produce a source saying that "Napoleon didn’t travel to Antarctica” The onus is on the claimant to provide a reliable source, which it doesn't. Anyone with cursory knowledge of Maratha navy would know it didn’t and reliably couldn’t have travelled to Andaman Islands. It was a COASTAL force not a deep water navy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.56.187.146 ( talk) 10:51, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
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Addition about the Missionary that was killed by a tribe in the island this week. Hermano El Grande ( talk) 19:57, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
They haven't been removed. I added {{ reflist-talk}} to the Maratha Navy section so that they appear there where they are being discussed. -- Pemilligan ( talk) 04:21, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Violent, really??
If they are Violent people, then how come they are all posing for photographs with this man..
Are you sure this is a correct picture, because they dont look Indian at all, but Aboriginal Australian or African.. 101.178.163.19 ( talk) 05:20, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Does anyone wanna talk about the tsunami? 101.178.163.19 ( talk) 05:26, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
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"Entering the region with a 5 mile radius from teh island is illegal as per Indian law." is written in the article, spelling "the" as "teh", and using a faulty sentence structure. This should be changed to "Entering a region of 5 miles from the island is illegal per Indian law.".
According to the article:
In the 13th Century, explorer Marco Polo described the island's residents as "most violent and cruel generation" and indicated that they were cannibals.
The source cited in the Wikipedia article is a 22-Nov-2018 Times of India article titled " Ten Indian families world knows nothing about". A tabloid-ish article like this is hardly a reliable source. Such lists on ToI often source content from other sources (including Wikipedia) without any serious verification.
The oldest source that I can find for Marco Polo's alleged description of the North Sentinel island is a 2006 article in The Guardian:
Describing the Sentinelese tribe of India's remote Andaman islands in his travel journals, the notoriously trite 13th-century explorer Marco Polo wrote: 'They are a most violent and cruel generation who seem to eat everybody they catch.'
However, The Travels of Marco Polo does not describe the residents of the North Sentinel island in particular, and there is no evidence that Marco Polo every visited this particular island. The book only talks about Andaman ("Angamanain") in general, which it describes as "a very large island" (obviously not the North Sentinel Island). From Concerning the Island of Angamanain:
Angamanain is a very large Island. The people are without a king and are Idolaters, and no better than wild beasts. And I assure you all the men of this Island of Angamanain have heads like dogs, and teeth and eyes likewise; in fact, in the face they are all just like big mastiff dogs! They have a quantity of spices; but they are a most cruel generation, and eat everybody that they can catch, if not of their own race. They live on flesh and rice and milk, and have fruits different from any of ours."
The author of The Guardian article, Dan McDougall, is not an authority on Marco Polo, the Age of Exploration, or the islands: as per WP:CONTEXTMATTERS, his claim should not be regarded as reliable. All subsequent sources seem to have repeated this claim without any verification whatsoever. utcursch | talk 16:53, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
A concern often expressed is that this savage tribe might catch some fatal disease or other if there is outside contact. Has there been any discussion by India about immunizing these people who are supposedly under their protection? 73.189.13.57 ( talk) 08:57, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Is it known from aerial observation or reports from the British what wildlife exists on the island that the inhalants might eat in addition to fish and what edible vegetation exists there? It seems unlikely that they originally developed bows and arrows for defense purposes, or at least for defense from outsiders as such a need was presumably rare for many years. Food supply considerations would seem to have come first. HistoryBuff14 ( talk) 23:07, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Just need to clarify. According to this source, T Pandit visited the islands in 1967. And it was a friendly visit. But the Wikipedia article states 1991. Which one is correct? https://www.boredpanda.com/north-sentinel-island-untouched-modern-civilization-people/ 180.150.115.31 ( talk) 13:13, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
1967 was the year T Pandit visited the island and made friendly contact with the sentinelese. In 1991 friendly contact was made by the 27-year old female anthropologist Madhumala Chattopadhyay. https://www.demilked.com/contacting-sentinelese-madhumala-chattopadhyay/ ( talk) 02:04, 15 August 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.85.88.73 ( talk)
At John Allen Chau § Aftermath ¶4, it says "In response to Chau's death, M. Sasikumar of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies questioned the legal charge of murder ...", cited to [1], which does indeed say "... Andaman police have registered a criminal case for murder against the unknown tribesmen." This seems contradictory to ¶3 of this article's lead "... the Indian government will not prosecute the Sentinelese for killing people in the event that an outsider ventures ashore." —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 19:45, 9 December 2023 (UTC)