Islands more dangerous than "Lost"

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4 Islands even more frightening that the television series "Lost". Conceal thousands of snakes, crocodiles and strange passed. But you can not enter in all of them.
If you want to flee the civilization and go to a desert island you must choose it well. Some are not the paradise that seem to see them. Even with a beautiful blue sea and vegetation magnificent, there are islands whose inhabitants reptiles attack human or where we cannot live without a gas mask.
If you like the TV series "Lost", learn about these real Islands and even more strange that fiction.

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Queimada Grande Island

 Let's start by the Grande Queimada island (Big Burnt Island, in english) located 35 kilometres away from seaside of the São Paulo State, Brazil. Is the island with more snakes around the world. Moreover, the name of this island is because of the great burnts that fishermen were doing to plunder the snakes. It has more than 15,000 snakes and it is estimated that between 2,000 to 4,000 are from the species "jararaca-ilhos", the more poisonous of the world. It takes only 2 hours to ensure that its lethal chopped makes the bodies to stop working. According to statistics, the island has 5 snakes per square metre, being nowadays uninhabited and access to it only permitted to environmental scientists and analysts.

Ramree Island

 Ramree island is located in Southeast Asia and there has been posted one of the biggest crocodiles attacks. On 19 February 1945, a group of Japanese soldiers felt trapped by Allied forces. Only had a chance to escape, which was a mud with 30 kilometres that separated the island of Burma's coast. Approximately 900 soldiers have plunged, 500 of them were killed by salt water crocodile, the larger reptiles that exist in the world. Reaching 30 feet, known by the attacks on humans. On the island of Ramree there are thousands of these crocodiles.

Poveglia Island

 The Poveglia Island has a paradise location, even in the middle of the lagoon of Venice, Italy. But its history breaks all its charm. As the Romans, deported beyond all victims of infectious diseases. When in the middle ages, the big black sweeping over Europe, the island of Poveglia became the place where they were taken not only the infected people but also the dead. It is estimated that there have died 160,000 people. Later was used as a monastery and Cologne, but their fame ran always linked to recent inhabitants, those suffering from a psychiatric hospital where, in 1922, a doctor not less unbalanced was known by torturing and killing patients. A legend says that since its dead he haunted that place and nobody can inhabit the island. Access to Poveglia shall be prohibited for tourists and even the Venetians are refusing to go there.

Izu Islands

The Izu Islands form an archipelago in the Pacific, South of Tokyo, with a special feature: they are all volcanic. One of those small islands, the Miyakejima Island, with a square kilometre area 55, the volcano mount Oyama has signed off on several occasions in recent years. The most recent, in July 2000, forced the inhabitants ' total withdrawal. Five years later, the same residents were allowed to return to the island, but on the condition of always use gas masks to protect against the high sulphur levels. The population of the archipelago round the 9,000 people, who daily are subject to a highly dangerous levels atmospheric resulting from the volcanic activity. To make matters worse, the Islands are in an area of continental meeting of 3 continental plaques and are therefore more vulnerable to earthquakes.

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Amanda108 2 years ago

I'm a huge Lost fan and this is one of the coolest ideas for a hub (or blog) about the show I've ever seen. Great work and research!

Dave 2 years ago

"Borrowed" from -

http://www.cracked.com/article_17379_6-real-island

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