Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Komodo Island

Komodo is an Indonesian island home to approximately 2,000 people who are mostly descendants of former convicts once exiled here. The island is part ofKomodo National Park and is especially known for its native Komodo Dragon -the world's largest living lizard! 






































































Komodo Island is an island located in the Nusa Tenggara Islands. Exactly at Komodo district, West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Komodo Island is the western end of East Nusa Tenggara Province, bordering the province of West Nusa Tenggara.

Since 1980, the region is an area of 1817 km2, a National Park by the Government of Indonesia, which are then recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1986. Together with two other large islands, the island of Rinca and Padar, Komodo Island and several small islands around it continued to be maintained as natural habitat of reptiles.

Komodo addition, this island also store a variety of exotic flora, timber Sepang which is used by people around As with medicine and clothing dye, this nitak tree, or Sterculia oblongata in the drug believed to be useful and tasty and good seeds like peas.

As one of the mainstay tourist Indonesia, Komodo Island provides lodging accommodations ranging from established local communities to international resort












































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