Most Alien-Like Place On Earth

Most Alien-Looking Place On Earth

220 miles from mainland Yemen, is home to a panoply of strange plants and animals uniquely adapted to the hot, harsh, windswept island.

This is the Socotra island. Socotra is a small island situated in the Indian Ocean, It has a very weird biodiversity than what we see in normal forests and islands.

 "The island is very isolated and through the process of speciation, a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. It has been described as the most alien-looking place on Earth." ~ Wikipedia

Satellite Image of The Island

  Strange Fact  

Socotra Island appears as Dioskouridou ("of the Dioscurides") in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a 1st century A.D. Greek navigation aid. In the notes to his translation of the Periplus, G.W.B. Huntingford remarks that the name Socotra is not Greek in origin, but derives from the Sanskrit dvipa sukhadhara ("island of bliss").

 

The island was recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a world natural heritage site in July 2008.