Located off the coast of Brazil, the island of Keimada Grandi is home to thousands and thousands of snakes. The island is included in the list of the most dangerous places on Earth.
Only the most desperate, but what's there ... stupid tourists will want to visit this ill-fated point on the world map.
1. One of the companies-developers of the country planned to plant a plantation of bananas. It did not work out.
2. The Brazilian Navy forbade anyone to even step on this island with one foot, let alone farming.
Restricted area. No entry. Photography is prohibited.
3. The island has the world's largest concentration of various species of snakes.
4. Reptiles live off migratory birds that use the island as a refuge during long flights.
5. The island is known as the habitat of one of the most dangerous snakes in the world - island botrops.
His bite causes rapid necrosis of tissues, acute renal failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, cerebral hemorrhage, death in 7% of cases. According to statistics, in 90% of deaths among people in Brazil is guilty island botrops.
6. On 1 sq.m. The island territory is from 1 to 5 snakes.
7. Island botsrops grows in length by a good half a meter.
8. Snake venom is very fast and melts the skin around the bite.
9. One unenlightened fisherman landed on the island only to collect bananas. Then he was bitten, and later found in a boat in a huge pool of blood.
10. The last lighthouse keeper and his whole family, wife and two children, were bitten by snakes, who made their way into the room through the window.
When people tried to leave the island, snakes attacked them directly from trees and bushes. Unfortunately, the family did not manage to escape. Since then, a lighthouse has been installed on the island, operating in automatic mode.