World's Most TOXIC Islands
Although islands may be a good choice for a place to escape to during the zombie apocalypse. You have to choose wisely! The natural boundary of oceans or rivers seems to make people feel that these islands are good place to test out nuclear weapons, leave toxic waste or even completely engulf them in waste. Here are the World’s Most Toxic Islands
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5. Izu Islands
If you got to wear gas masks on an island, you should probably consider it toxic. These are some of Japan’s volcanic islands which often spew sulfur gas into the air. The islands themselves are beautiful but there is a serious problem! With increased levels of volcanic gases, residents of these islands ha ve to wear some creepy gas masks just about all the time. This photo here was taken during a wedding at the Izu islands and you can see they won’t even take off the masks during special moments such as this! Why don’t they just move! You can tell in this photo people had different styles of gas masks it appears as though everyone is living in some kind of apocalyptic underworld
4. Gruinard Island
Located Northwestern Scotland this oval shaped island is only about a mile wide and half mile long. But it’s been home to some mysterious incidents in the past. It was once full of trees but it is now completely treeless. In 1942, British military scientists chose this island as a testing site for biological weapons during the 2nd World War. In order to test Anthrax as a weapon of mass destruction, it was bombarded with several anthrax bombs, using sheep as their test dummies. To no one’s surprise, all the sheep died. In 1945, the man who owned the island, wanted his land back but the British Ministry of Supply claimed that the island was now unfit for human inhabitation. People began complaining about dead bodies of animals washing up on Scottish beaches well after the testing and the supposed clean up. This makes you wonder how infected the island is to this day. The site is also a no go zone on Google Maps.
3. The Johnston Atoll
Located in the heart of the Pacific, this extremely remote island has been under the control of the US military for the past 70 years It was originally a bird sanctuary but when tests needed to be done, it was transformed into naval refueling depot, and airbase used to drop bombs on other innocent little islands in the Pacific. A lot of shady stuff seemed to go on here and many nuclear and biological weapons were stored here. This place was artificially constructed in top secrecy in order for it to expand from a small reef.. The area was used for atmospheric nuclear testing as well.. and on July 9th 1962, 1,4 megaton explosion was detonated at an altitude 250 miles, resulting in an electromagnetic pulse. This was dubbed operation “Starfish Prime” and it created a massive fireball in the sky a knocking out communications as far away as Hawaii. Many Shady Experiments took place here that we might get to in some future videos but in Modern times, there’s massive leaking crates of Agent orange, seeping into the ground as we speak and no one works here anymore.
2. Enewetak Atoll
When the US was testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific, things began to get a little bit out of control and some strange stuff was going on here. Over 23 massive nuclear and hydrogen bombs were dropped here. This photo shows the massive concrete lid placed over the crater of a nuclear test called “cactus” in their attempt to contain the radioactive materials left over. This was a very beautiful Island, known as Runit Island with much wildlife and tropical trees. Many strange experiments took place on this atoll including one called “Operation Ivy”. They even tested unmanned airplanes flying through mushroom clouds after hydrogen bomb detonations to see radioactive they could get. Runit Island now deemed uninhabitable for the next 24000 years due to all the plutonium that scattered here. Workers on this island began suffering many health issues related to radiation exposure and the government even tried to convince the locals here that it was totally safe to live here again in 1980
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