Check out Ilha da Queimada, offcoast Brazil. Landing there is forbidden, the island is abandoned and as a statistical mean value has a density of one snake per squaremeter, biologists estimate. All the last lighthouse guardians that were stationed there before the tower went to automatic mode, were killed by snakes.
Even worse: these are no "harmless" rattlesnakes, but highgly unpredictablay behaving and extremely poisonous fer-de-lance (bothros asper), which is the most-feared viper in Latin America and responsible for most snake-incidents. The poison can cause terrible injuries, making limbs look as if rottening alive and turning into ashes. But usually it kills in quick time. Fer-de-lance is one of the most poisonous vipers in the worlds.
That is no island you want to make holiday at. Police enforces a no-landing policy there.
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