7. Ross Island, India
Ross Island is a tiny speck of an island, measuring only one-third of a square mile. Back in the day, it was inhabited by many British government officials and thousands of convicts and political prisoners.
The British residents made the Ross Island their home establishing fancy dance halls, clubs bakeries, pools, and gardens where they lived until 1941, when an invasion by the Japanese and a magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck the island, thousands of its inhabitants were killed.
This island was a luxurious British colonial settlement, it is remembered as a place of brutalization of thousands of convicts and political prisoners. In 1979, the Indian Navy occupied the island, and they’ve established a small base there. Today, Ross Island belongs to the Indian government.
Today, nature has taken over the remains of the island, and the place which was once called the “Paris of the East” is now a memorial to the misery of the fallen, a nostalgic island that carries the forgotten tales of decades of colonial oppression.
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