In the terrifying island where only soldiers and scientists are allowed to visit

This deadly island swarms with 4,000 of the world’s most deadly snakes and is thus considered dangerous that visiting it by the Brazilian government is forbidden.

Ilha de Queimada Grande is 20 miles (32 km) off the coast of Sao Paolo and is the home of the Golden Lancehead Viper.

Understandably the nickname ‘Snake Island’, the piece of land 4.6 million square foot (430,000 square meters) is large The only place on earth where Bothrops insularis, also known as the Golden Lancehead Viper, is known to inhabit.

The island is devoid of almost every human visitors, expecting a few scientists who get permission every year to study the snakes.

It is also occasionally visited by the Brazilian navy, which tends to be the autonomous lighthouse that was built in 1909 before it clearly turns.

The island has become known as Snake Island, claiming that there is one snake for every square meter.

And it is also thought that poachers are known to visit the island and to claim their own Golden Lancehead Viper, with their price that is as high as £ 17,500 ($ 30,000) on the black market.

The Viper has evolved separately since rising sea level, the island cut off from the mainland 11,000 years ago, leaving the snakes on the island with limited food sources behind.

The island is supposed to have been separated from the Brazilian mainland 11,000 years ago when the sea level rose

Ilha de Queimada Grande is 20 miles (32 km) off the coast of Sao Paolo, Brazil, and is the home of the Golden Lancehead Viper

The Golden Lancehead Viper (Bothrops Insularis), depicted, can only be found on this one island

Migrating birds became the most important prey of the Viper, but the problem was that most poison takes a while to act – sometimes as much as a few days.

By the time the poison of the snake killed the birds, they would have been moved elsewhere, so instead the snakes evolved an incredibly strong poison that can kill prey almost immediately.

It is five times more powerful than other snakes and can even melt human meat.

In humans, the bite of a Golden Lancehead Viper wore a seven percent chance of death.

And before the island was considered outside the borders, there were several stories about people who succumbed to the fatal predators.

One story tells about a fisherman who lost power in the motorbikes of his boat.

After he drove to the island, he ventured into the interior, not aware of the horrors lurking.

When his boat was finally discovered, he was found dead in a puddle of blood covered with snake bites.

Ilha de Queimada Grande translates roughly as ‘the island of the Slash-and-Burn Fire’

The island has become known as Snake Island, claiming that there is one snake for every square metrr

The island is devoid of almost every human visitors, expecting for a few scientists who get permission every year to study the snakes

Another story is from the last lighthouse keeper to inhabit the island with his family.

There is rumor that they ran in fear when snakes crawled through their windows; Their bodies were later found throughout the island.

The name of the island itself tells about his troubled history.

Ilha de Queimada Grande translates roughly translates as ‘the island of the sloping and-burn Fire’, supposedly because of a failed attempt to develop a banana plantation on it.

In the past 15 years, however, the population of snakes on the island, such as no less than 15 percent, reduced, due to a combination of vegetation removal and illness.

And on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the snakes are currently mentioned as critically threatened.

With thousands of snakes over, but it is probably still not the ideal holiday destination.