Komodo Island

Komodo Island is an island located in the Nusa Tenggara Islands. Komodo Island is known as a habitat for native animals Komodo. This island is also an area of Komodo National Park which is managed by the central government. Komodo Island is located on the western island of Sumbawa, which are separated by The Sape. Netherlands in the year 1910 named the island in the southern province of East Nusa Tenggara with this surname Komodo Island. This was the story of Lieutenant Steyn va Hens Broek trying to prove that a report on the Dutch troops dragon-like animal on the island monster. Steyn then kill one of Komodo and bring documentation to the Museum and Botanical Garden in Bogor to be inspected.
Administratively, this island including the District of Komodo, West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Komodo Island is the most western tip of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, bordered by East Nusa Tenggara.

Komodo Island, Komodo dragons live animals and breed well. Year 2008, only in this island there was at least 1200 Komodo tails. Plus the other islands, such as the island of Rinca, so their overall number to about 2500 head.

Besides Komodo, the island also save a diverse flora eksotisme Sepang timber that is used by people around as medicine and dye clothing materials, tree nitak this or believe in sterculia oblongata useful as drugs.

Komodo Island National Park as the proposed site of the world wonders and home to a Komodo, the largest lizard in the world which is often regarded as the dragon. Terpilihnya Segitiga Coral Reefs nominated as one of the scent is also the name of Indonesia, although Bentang sea in this country include the number of other countries such as Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor Leste.

Second place is consistent with the criteria that the committee determined it, that the location of the proposed sites must be natural, monuments, or natural landscapes. "Miracle of nature that must be a place of natural or natural monument that is not created or direkayasa by human intervention for aesthetic reasons," said the foundation is in the internet site. "Physical or natural phenomenon such as the northern lights, gulf stream, or the stars do not fall in qualifying."

New7Wonders campaign, led by Swiss adventurer Bernard Weber aims to promote cultural diversity in a way to support, preserve, and improve the natural monuments and other sites. Funds obtained from donations tax and broadcasting rights are used to finance the renovation process.