5. Ramree Island
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Crocodiles.
Enough said.
Except that wouldn’t do this island justice. The following is an account of events of one night during World War 2:
On the night of February 19, 1945, about 1,000 Japanese soldiers were retreating from the Allied forces and they made the choice of going through the marshes of Ramree. The saltwater crocodiles, considered the largest reptiles on the planet, in the marshes attacked them.
What followed next was like something out of the worst horror movie scene. This incident is doubly recorded in the Guinness Book of World records as “The Greatest Disaster Suffered [by humans] from Animals” and “Most Number of Fatalities in a Crocodile Attack”. Of the 1,000 who went in, 20 were found alive.
This island is also home to blowflies, malaria carrying mosquitoes and scorpions.
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