North Sentinel island is located deep in the Bay of Bengal ... The next contact made by outsiders was in 2004, after the Boxing Day Tsunami when a helicopter was sent to see if the Sentinelese ...
Fishermen who took the man to North Sentinel island say tribespeople shot him ... in 2004 just after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami. I was at the daily press briefing by the authorities ...
Other than colonial Europeans visiting the larger Andaman islands, and occasional shipwreck survivors surviving being stranded on hostile North Sentinel, the island remained largely untouched.