Now the only visitors to Snake Island are a once-a-year visit by the Brazilian Navy to check on the lighthouse, and a very few select scientists that have a permit to study the snakes. They are required to take a doctor with them.
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The island is so dangerous that the only people who have ever been permitted to visit are the Brazilian Navy, who stops by once a year to maintain the island's lighthouse, and groups of biologists who study the snakes. Wildlife. The average golden lancehead snake sells for somewhere between $10,000 and $30,000.
These vipers' venom can kill a person in under an hour. Island is uninhabited for a long time, and closed for visits or tours, available only for Brazilian Navy and for research teams, granted special permission on every occasion.
And the danger on the island comes in the form of the golden lanceheadpit vipers – one of the deadliest snakes in the world. The lanceheads can grow to be over a foot-and-a-half long and it's estimated that there are between 2,000 and 4,000 of them on Snake Island.
Pomponius Mela wrote that Achilles was buried there. In Andromache, work of Euripides, Thetis mention the island and said that Achilles was dwelling on his island home. Ruins believed to be of a square temple dedicated to Achilles, 30 meters to a side, were discovered by the Russian naval Captain N. D.
With a size of 42 acres, the island doesn't even have its own fresh water supply. However, the tiny speck of rock in the Black Sea has seen a number of Ukrainian military victories and its location makes it vitally important.