Komodo Island is an island located in the Nusa Tenggara Islands, Indonesia. Komodo Island is known as a habitat for Komodo dragon. Until August 2009, on the island there are about 1,300 Komodos. Coupled with other islands, such as Rinca Island and Gili Motang, their numbers totaled about 2500 Komodos.
In 2009, the Komodo Island has been named a finalist "New Seven Wonders of Nature" which was announced in 2010 by online voting at www.N7W.com. 11th November 2011, the New 7 Wonders has announced the provisional winners, and National Parks Komodo entered into the ranks of the winners along with, the Amazon rainforest, Halong Bay, Iguazu Falls, Jeju Island, Puerto Princesa Underground River, and Table Mountain. Komodo National Park gets the most votes among all.
What to do in this island? There are 3 Komodo Island wonders.
Pink Beach
There are only 7 pink beach in the world, one of them on the island of Komodo. The pink sand are mixed of white and red sand. The color red itself is said came from a broken red coral fragments.
Komodo National Park
We can see 277 species of animals from Asia and Australia. In addition, if having snorkeling hobby, here is also paradise for fish and coral reefs. There are at least 253 species of reef-building corals, 70 species of sponge, and 1,000 species of fish. That's where the live dugong, sharks, 14 species of whales, dolphins, and turtles.
(KOMODO) Varanus komodoensis
This ancient animal shaped like a giant lizards was first discovered in 1910 by Peter Ouwens, director of the Zoological Museum Bogor. And the current population of Komodo dragons can only be found in Indonesia. On the island there are about 2,500 Komodo dragons tail included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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