Pulau Komodo
Komodo Island is an island located
in the Nusa Tenggara Islands. Komodo Island is known as a habitat for animals
native Komodo dragon. The island is also the Komodo National Park which is
managed by the Central Government. Komodo Island in the eastern island of
Sumbawa, which are separated by the Sape Strait.
Administratively, this island
including the District of Komodo, West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara
Province, Indonesia. Komodo Island is the most western tip of Nusa Tenggara
Timur province, bordering the province of West Nusa Tenggara.
On the island of Komodo dragons live
animals and breed well. Until August 2009, on this island there are about 1,300
Komodo dragons tail. Coupled with other islands, such as the island of Rinca
and Gili and Motang, their numbers totaled about 2500 tails. There are also
approximately 100 individuals dragons Wae Wuul Nature Reserve on the mainland
island of Flores, but not including the Komodo National Park.
Besides
Komodo, the island is also storing a variety of exotic flora that Sepang wood
by local people used as a medicine and dye clothes, nitak tree Sterculia
oblongata in this or believe to be useful as medicines and seeds are tasty and
delicious like peas.
History
In 1910 the Dutch named the island
in the southern province of East Nusa Tenggara is the nickname of the island of
Komodo. This story begins with Lieutenant Steyn van Broek Hens that Dutch
troops tried to prove statements about the existence of a large animal like a
dragon on the island. Steyn then kill a dragon and bring documentation to the
Museum and Botanical Garden in Bogor to be investigated.
In 2009, the Komodo National Park has been named a
finalist in the "New Seven Wonders of Nature" a new one announced in
2010 by online voting at www.N7W.com and do not forget to support the island of
Komodo As New Seven Wonder
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