Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Indonesia - Komodo National Park (1)


Komodo dragons, the world's largest lizards, tearing a goat apart.

Sent by Shinta from Semarang, Indonesia.

This is from UNESCO : The generally steep and rugged topography reflects the position of the national park within the active volcanic 'shatter belt' between Australia and the Sunda shelf. Komodo, the largest island, has a topography dominated by a range of rounded hills oriented along a north-south axis at an elevation of 500-600 m. Relief is steepest towards the north-east, notably the peak of Gunung Toda Klea which is precipitous and crowned by deep, rocky and dry gullies (read further)

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