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Flores ( Portuguese for " flowers") is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. Flores is located east of Sumbawa and Komodo and west of Lomblen 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.
Flores is part of the East Nusa Tenggara province. The island is split into five regencies (local government districts); from west to east these are: Manggarai , Ngada , Ende , Sikka and Flores Timur .
The west coast of Flores is one of the few places, aside from the island of Komodo itself, where the Komodo dragon can be found in the wild. The Flores giant ratThe Flores Giant Rat Papagomys armandvillei occurs on Flores Island in Indonesia. Head and body length is 41 45 cm and tail length is 33 70 cm, making the Flores giant rat at least twice the size of an average brown rat Rattus norvegicus with a 25 cm long is also endemic to the Island.
In September 20032003 : January February March April May June July August September October November December A timeline of events in the news for September, 2003. See Also U. Presidential Election Iraq timeline Afghanistan timeline September 2003 California recall Hutton, at Liang Bua cave in western Flores, paleoanthropologists discovered skeletons of a previously unknown hominidSubfamily Ponginae Pongo Orangutans Subfamily Homininae Gorilla Gorillas Pan Chimpanzees Homo Humans Paranthropus † Australopithecus † Sahelanthropus † Ardipithecus † Kenyanthropus † The Hominids Hominidae are a biologic speciesThis article discusses biological species. Also see combinatorial species for the mathematical meaning of the term. Species is also a movie by Roger Donaldson. In English "species" is both singular and plural. The word " specie" is unrelated and is used t. Homo floresiensisHomo floresiensis ("Man of Flores") is a newly described species in the genus Homo remarkable for its small body, small brain, and recent survival, thought to have been contemporaneous with modern humans Homo sapiens on the remote Indonesian island of Flo, affectionately termed hobbitfan's idea of a typical Hobbit . Hobbits are a fictional race from J. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe which first appears in the book The Hobbit''. They also play a major role in The Lord of the Rings''. Description Hobbits are two to four feet tall, withs, appear to be miniaturized versions of Homo erectus standing about one meter tall. They may have existed until as recently as 10,000 BC. Local reports of elf-like people, the Ebu Gogo, or the Orang Pendek of Sumatra, have caused speculation that Flores man may have survived even to the present. The discovery has been published in the October 2004 issue of Nature magazine. [1]