Komodo Island Indonesia

Habitat's largest lizard in the world

Komodo Island is an island located in the Nusa Tenggara archipelago, Indonesia. Komodo Island is known as a habitat for native animals dragons, giant lizards in the world. This island is also the Komodo National Park which is managed by the Indonesian 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 animals live and breed well. Until August 2009, on this island there are about 1,300 dragons tail. Coupled with other islands, such as Rinca Island and Gili Motang, their numbers totaled about 2500 tails. There are also approximately 100 individuals dragons in Wae Wuul Nature Reserve on the mainland of Flores island, but not including the Komodo National Park.

Besides Komodo, the island is also store a variety of exotic, like flora and Sepang timber, which by local people used as medicine and dye clothes, this nitak tree or sterculia oblongata in the believe is useful as medicines and seeds are tasty and delicious like peas.

About Komodo

Komodo is a giant lizard that has a deadly weapon on his saliva. Komodo is a meat-eating animals (carnivores), which prey on large animals such as buffalo, deer and wild boar. Komodo dragon saliva contains a variety of bacteria that could kill an adult water buffalo with only one bite, and the prey will die within 2-3 days only.

History of Komodo Island

In 1910, the Dutch give named these island in the southern province of East Nusa Tenggara with the nickname of Komodo Island. This story begins when Lieutenant Steyn van Hens Broek who tries to prove statements about a report of Dutch troops that seeing the large animal resembling a dragon on the island. Steyn then killed a dragon and bring the documentation to the Museum and Botanical Garden in Bogor to be investigated.

In 2009, these Park has been listed as finalist in the "New Seven Wonders of Nature" newly published in 2010 by online voting at www.N7W.com.

Komodo Island is a rarest tourist island in the world's and has been interesting to many studies by researchers from all over the world.