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But no Westerner visited the island to check the story until official interest was sparked in the early 1910s by stories from Dutch sailors based in Flores in East Nusa Tenggara about a mysterious creature. The creature was allegedly a dragon which inhabited a small island in the Lesser Sunda Islands (the main island of which is Flores).
In early 2019, the Nusa Tenggara Timor (NTT) provincial governor Viktor Laiskodat announced a plan to close a section of the park (a main section on Komodo Island) for a year in order to make improvements. [40] The suggestion was that other parts of the park, including Rinca and Padar Islands and certain parts of Komodo Island, would remain open.
Subak's "democratic and egalitarian farming practices" helps rice growers in accommodating Bali's dense population. The largest and most notable water temple in Bali is the Pura Taman Ayun, established in the 18th century. [11] The Jatiwulih rice terraces is pictured. Komodo National Park: West Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara: 609; Natural:
The structure of the Mayura Park is rectangular, with a length of 244.60 meters, a width of 138.50 meters (33,877.10 square meters), to the north there is a building (building) that was once used as a resident assistant office, in the middle of Mayura Park there is a pond and in middle of the pond is equipped with a building called Bale Kambang, around the pond of Taman Mayura there are four ...
East Nusa Tenggara (Indonesian: Nusa Tenggara Timur) is the southernmost province of Indonesia. It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands , facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the north.
There are numerous diving sites in the islands close to Labuan Bajo - but in some places currents can be dangerously strong and much carefulness is required - notably at Batu Bolong site (whose name means "hole in the rock", in the Linta Strait), also called "Current City" for that reason [10] [11] To the north are Sabolon kecil, Sabolon besar and Seraya kecil; to the west are Sebayur (outside ...
Liang Bua is a limestone cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, slightly north of the town of Ruteng in Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara.The cave demonstrated archaeological and paleontological potential in the 1950s and 1960s as described by the Dutch missionary and archaeologist Theodor L. Verhoeven.
It was believed that the Komodo dragons had been smuggled out of East Nusa Tenggara province through the port at Ende in central Flores. [87] In 2013, the total population of Komodo dragons in the wild was assessed as 3,222 individuals, declining to 3,092 in 2014 and 3,014 in 2015.