6 Places You're Not Allowed to Visit (We Found Them)

Some places are on every map — and still closed. One is guarded by arrows. One by a steel door in the Arctic. One by a family, one by a navy, one by science — and one by a rule that is almost a thousand years old.

We flew to all six on a 3D map: North Sentinel Island, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Niʻihau, Snake Island, Surtsey and Mount Athos. Which one would you try to get into? Tell me in the comments ????

0:00 Intro
0:27 1. North Sentinel — the island nobody may land on
2:12 2. Svalbard Seed Vault — a door that opens a few times a year
4:02 3. Niʻihau — the Forbidden Island of Hawaii
6:22 4. Snake Island — Brazil's island of golden lanceheads
8:12 5. Surtsey — the island only scientists may visit
9:46 6. Mount Athos — closed to women for close to a thousand years
12:12 Which one would you pick?

???? Locations
North Sentinel Island, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India — 11.5775, 92.2444
Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Longyearbyen, Norway — 78.2356, 15.4911
Niʻihau, Hawaii, USA — 21.90, -160.15
Ilha da Queimada Grande (Snake Island), São Paulo, Brazil — -24.4861, -46.6750
Surtsey, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland — 63.3033, -20.6050
Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Greece — 40.1583, 24.3272

Facts & sources: Wikipedia articles on each place; Crop Trust / NordGen (seed vault); Instituto Butantan (golden lancehead); Surtsey Research Society, UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Surtsey, Mount Athos); Wikivoyage «Mount Athos» (permits); Kakavas, «The Avaton debate» (ORFECT, University of Modena).

New places every day in Shorts — send me one to find → comments.

Map data © Google. Photos: Wikimedia Commons — authors and licenses are shown on screen and listed below.

Photo credits: NASA; NASA Earth Observatory; NOAA; USGS; Copernicus Sentinel-2 / ESA; PJeganathan; Medici82; Michael Major / Crop Trust; Cierra Martin / Crop Trust; NordGen / Johan Bäckman; Dag Endresen; Subiet; Bjoertvedt; Tiq; Prefeitura de Itanhaém; Rogério Cassimiro / MTur; Nayeryouakim; Miguelrangeljr; Otavio A. Marques; Rafael Mitsuo; Marinha do Brasil; TommyBee; michael clarke stuff; Howell Williams (NOAA); Richie Williams (USGS); Bruce McAdam; CanonS2; Brian Gratwicke; Diego Delso; TripOfALifestyle.com; Christopher P. Becker (Polihale); Carole Hude; Wmpearl; Forest and Kim Starr; Florificapis; Michalis Famelis; Théodore Ralli; Agence Mondial Photo-Presse; Diliff; malenki; Administration of Mount Athos. Licenses: public domain, CC0, CC BY 2.0/2.5/3.0/4.0, CC BY-SA 2.0/3.0/4.0.

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