Seven islands most people on Earth can never set foot on, seen from space: a volcano younger than your grandparents, a sacred island women may not land on, a Hawaiian island sold for $10,000 in gold, the sand of Iwo Jima, the hidden base of Diego Garcia, Brazil's Snake Island, and North Sentinel, one of the last places on Earth to refuse all contact.

Chapters
0:00 Seven islands you can't visit
0:31 #7 Surtsey, Iceland
1:25 #6 Okinoshima, Japan
2:18 #5 Ni'ihau, Hawaii
3:21 #4 Iwo Jima, Japan
4:09 #3 Diego Garcia
5:00 #2 Queimada Grande, Brazil
5:51 #1 North Sentinel, India
7:09 Which should stay closed?

Sources
• Surtsey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtsey and https://english.surtsey.is/
• Okinoshima: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinoshima_(Fukuoka)
• Ni'ihau: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%CA%BBihau and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident
• Iwo Jima: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwo_Jima and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima
• Diego Garcia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians
• Queimada Grande: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande
• North Sentinel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island and https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/sentinelese

Imagery: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, 2023 to 2026; NASA Earth Observatory (Blue Marble). Characters and scenes are illustrations. The Sentinelese people are not depicted.

Music: "Long Note Four" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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