If want to make sure to avoid visiting the most terrifying places on the Earth then surely it cannot be more scary than this island by the name, Ilha de Queimada Grande just about 90 miles from the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
We are pretty sure,no one dare to venture into this island and there’s no grounds why anybody want to set foot on this island as this deadliest place is the lone place on Earth occupied by the world’s most venomous viper, Golden Lancehead. The powerful fast-acting poison,the snakes possess here is so powerful that it can even melt the human flesh around their bites.
As researchers estimate that there are as many as 4,000 snakes live on this 110-acre island, with some reports even revealing that in every square meter one can easily trace about one to five snakes.It is learnt that the snake’s venom is three to five times stronger than that of any serpents in mainland.
Not to be surprised then, the lancehead genus is purportedly the reason for 90 percent of all snakebite-related deaths in Brazil.
It is said that about 11,000 years ago due to a rise in sea levels,this island was separated from the mainland Brazil.There was a limited source of food then for these snakes.The snakes live mostly on migratory birds that used the island as a resting point, keeping the snake density extremely high.
Visiting Ilha de Queimada Grande is so risky because of Golden lanceheads that, exception some scientific outfits, the Brazilian Navy has expressly prohibited anyone from landing on the island.
There are tales of death where people succumbed to the death predators in no time on snake island. One story says about a lighthouse operator and his family who was attacked by a handful of snakes one night by entering through the window.The frightened family ran away towards their boat despaerately to escape,but bitten by the snakes on branches overhead and killed.Since then the lighthouse there has been automated and the Brazilian government has restricted the island to any visitors to stopover even.
In another incident, a fisherman unknowingly entered the island to pick bananas there where he was bitten by the deadly snakes.Though he managed to reach his boat,but there he quickly succumbs to the snake’s venom. Later he was found on the boat deck in a huge pool of blood.
A biologist named Marcelo Duarte who visited the Snake Island many times says that at one snake per meter, you’re never more than three feet away from death.
So forbidding anyone to visit this deadly islanfd, may not be such a bad decision by the Brazilian government…
However if the anyone including tourists visiting Brazil want to see this deadly Golden lanceheads it can be seen at three locations there with permissions.One is at Butantã Institute in São Paulo in the Serpentarium,2nd one the São Paulo zoo and the last the Zoológico Municipal Quinzinho de Barros in Sorocaba city, state of Sao Paulo.
