India
11°33′N 92°14′E
Sentinel Islands
Part of Andaman Islands
Chart
2 landforms
Major islands
1
North Sentinel Island
- Area
- 50.4 km²
- High point
- 98 m
North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. A protected area of India, it is home to the Sentinelese, an uncontacted indigenous tribe who have defended—often with violence—their protected isolation from the outside world.
Minor islands
1
South Sentinel Island
- Area
- 1.6 km²
- High point
- 39 m
Figures
Comparative heights
- North Sentinel: 98 m
- South Sentinel: 39 m
To the same scale
Islands by area
Photographs
7
North Sentinel Island seen from flight
North Sentinel Island seen from flight
North Sentinel Island imaged by a Sentinel 2 satellite.
North Sentinel Island
Satellite pictures of Andaman Islands at 0420 UTC February 1, 2018.
View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 35.
Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Public domain
Sources
Facts
- Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
- Wikidata
- Talus
Photographs
- North Sentinel Island from flight (11301). PJeganathan / CC BY-SA 4.0
- North Sentinel Island from flight (17381). PJeganathan / CC BY-SA 4.0
- North-Sentinel-Island-Sentinel-2A. Copernicus Programme / Attribution
- North Sentinel Island. NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided by the NASA EO-1 team. / Public domain
- North Sentinel Island 2022-03-06 Sentinel-2 L2A True color. European Space Agency / Attribution
- Andaman Islands on Feb 1, 2018. NASA, MODIS / LANCE / Public domain
- ISS035-E-5171 - View of Earth. Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Public domain