Flores
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Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. The population is estimated to be around 1.5 million[1], and the largest town is Maumere.
Flores is located east of Sumbawa and Komodo and west of Lembata and the Alor Archipelago. To the southeast is Timor. To the south, across the Sumba strait, is Sumba and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi.
On December 12 1992, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 2,000 people in the town of Maumere.
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- ↑ "Trapping Komodo Dragons for Conservation" National Geographic - 28 Jan 2003
