![]() After a few days, Hensbroek managed to kill one of the lizards to investigate. He armed himself, and accompanied by a team of soldiers, landed on the island. Hearing the reports, Lieutenant Steyn van Hensbroek, an official of the Dutch Colonial Administration in Flores, planned a trip to Komodo Island to continue the search. The creature was allegedly a dragon which inhabited a small island in the Lesser Sunda Islands (the main island of which is Flores). 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 earliest stories (among Westerners) of a dragon-like animal existing in the region circulated widely and attracted considerable attention. Komodo Island is home to the Komodo Dragon, the largest lizard on earth. The island's surface area covers 291 square kilometres. It lies between the substantially larger neighboring islands Sumbawa to the west and Flores to the east. Komodo is part of the Lesser Sunda chain of islands and forms part of the Komodo National Park. Administratively, it is part of the Komodo District (which also includes Rinca Island and numerous other islands off the west coast of Flores, together with part of the western portion of Flores itself), forming part of West Manggarai Regency within the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Komodo Island has a surface area of 291 square kilometres, and had a human population of about 1,800 in 2020. ![]() It is particularly notable as the habitat of the Komodo dragon, the largest lizard on Earth, which is named after the island. ![]() Komodo ( Indonesian: Pulau Komodo) is one of the 17,508 islands that comprise the Republic of Indonesia.
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