Dangerous Snake Island Brazil | Land of Golden Lancehead

     Snake Island is a small island which name is Ilha da Queimada Grand in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

This island cover area of approximately 110 acres and it is a home to more than 43,0000 snakes.

This island is a prohibited area and there is no permit to visit that island because it’s a most dangerous island, there is no assurance for alive.

Ilha da Queimada Grand

Brazil’s Ilha da Queimada Grande, also called Snake Island, has an extremely high population of Bothrops Insularis (or) commonly known as the Golden lancehead vipers.

This snake’s poison is very potent and dangerous that it melts human flesh around the bite area and kills victims in an hour.

The island's is only inhabitant of a lighthouse keeper.

In the past history some people lived on the island to run the lighthouse up until the 1920's when the last keeper and his entire family were killed by a group of snakes who slithered into their home through the windows.

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This snake is said to be one of the most poisonous snakes in existence today with its poison more than 4 or 5 times more deadly than its mainland brethren.

Local legend claims there are five snakes to every square meter, while a documentary on the Discovery Channel claims that in some places there are as many as one snake per square meter.