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MAP
OF FLORES ISLAND
OF INDONESIA
Flores island is
one of the Lesser Sunda islands located in the
eastern part of Sumbawa and Komodo National
Park with an approximately area of 14,300km2.
This island is the largest island on the east
nusa tenggara region.
Flores island is one of the island on East
Nusa Tenggara province. It stretches between
the east longitudes of 118° and 125°, and
between the latitudes of 8° and 8,58° south
and extends over a length of 360kms, NW of
Australia. It thus belongs to the
South-eastern islands of the Indonesian
archipelago (Nusa Tenggara province) with,
in particular, the islands of Timor and
Sumba.
Flores becomes one of the biggest island on
the territory of East Nusa Tenggara or NTT
which comprises 566 islands, including many
smaller islands which are not in-habitated
and unnamed. The three main islands are
Flores, Sumba and Timor from which comes the
term 'Flobamor', which has been familiar as
one of the names of NTT
From a geodynamical point of view, this
island, flanked to the North by the Flores
basin and to the South by the Savu basin, is
volcanically active with at least 13 live
volcanoes. It also corresponds to an area of
intense seismic activity (12th December 1992
earthquake, magnitude 7.5).
flores index
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