A Very Private ResortAn oasis amongst a chaotic world, Rattlesnake Island is a peaceful and private retreat where members can spend their summers swimming, sunning and boating.
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Access to the Rattlesnake Island Preserve is ONLY allowed when the dock is staffed by LRCT personnel. ANY access that occurs when Personnel is not present at the dock would be trespassing, and this restriction is enforceable by law.
History tells us that rattlesnakes used to inhabit the island which is where the name comes from. The shape of the island is also reminiscent of a rattlesnake's head. That is where the name came from, although it seems odd that rattlesnakes inhabited that island, but nowhere else in the area.
Rattlesnake Island then became a private island that was re-sold in 1992 for $4.6 million. Frackelton and sixty-five other investors re-purchased the island in 1999. Today, Rattlesnake Island is accessible only to the 65 members of the Rattlesnake Island Club.
But there's no escaping that the most abundant thing on Snake Island is the snakes, to be precise, about 2,000-4,000 of the most venomous snakes in Latin America.
Both tourists and Brazilian locals are forbidden from visiting Ilha de Queimada Grande. 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.
You may ask. Well, it's a little-known fact that, according to legend, Achilles was buried on Snake Island. The eighth- or seventh-century B.C. poem the Aethiopis relates that, after he received his fatal ankle injury at Troy, Achilles' remains were transported to the White Island by his mother Thetis.