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	Flores - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flores (Portuguese for "flowers") 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.
		Flores is located east of Sumbawa and Komodo and west of Lembata and the Alor archipelago.
		To the south, across the Sumba strait, is Sumba and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flores (479 words)

	Flores Island, Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Flores Island is said to be one of the most beautiful of the Azores Islands, of which it is part of the western group.
		The island was first settled by the Flemish nobleman William van der Haegen (Guilherme da Silveira), after having a meeting with Dona Maria Vilhena, who administered the island in the name of her young son, Rui de Teles.
		He later left Flores because it was too isolated and lay on no naval routes to the rest of Europe; the island was also too infertile and windy, the export of valuable colorful pastel could have secured.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flores_Island%2C_Portugal (767 words)

	FLORES
		This shock was felt on the island of Bali, 700 km to the west.
		It is a round island of diameter 2.5 km, surrounded by a coral reef, with a mountain of elevation 351 m rising in the center.
		The population of the island is 1,093, of which 263 were victims of the tsunami.
	www.usc.edu /dept/tsunamis/indonesia/flores (828 words)

	Flores Island, Portugal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Flores Island is an island of the (Islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal) Azores, a (additional info and facts about Portugese) Portugese (A group of many islands in a large body of water) archipelago.
		The Flores Island is said to be one of the most beautiful of the (Islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal) Azores Islands, of which it is part of the western group.
		Flores is the (The Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil) Portuguese for flowers, the source of the island's name.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fl/flores_island,_portugal.htm (965 words)

	Flores Island Geography - East Nusa Tenggara, Flores - Indonesia
		Flores island is one of the island on East Nusa Tenggara province.
		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.
	www.bali-travel-online.com /flores_island/flores_geography.htm (357 words)

	Flores Island, Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The economy of the island is mainly agricultural, with yams and grain.
		Vilhena and Van der Haegen came to an agreement and Haegen moved to the island between 1480 and 1490.
		The island became permanently populated in the reign of king Manuel I of Portugal, in the year of 1510, by people of various regions of continental Portugal, mainly from the northern provinces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flores_Island,_Portugal (767 words)

	Ministry of Environment - Flores Island Marine Provincial Park
		One of the main attractions of Flores Island is the "Walk the Wild Side Trail", a rustic route that extends 10 km from the village of Ahousat to Cow Bay.
		Flores Island is located in the central portion of Clayoquot Sound, north of Tofino on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.
		Flores Island is accessible year round; there is no winter camping fee at this time.
	wlapwww.gov.bc.ca /bcparks/explore/parkpgs/flores.htm (1194 words)

	Flores Island, Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Flores Island has a surface of 142 square It is an island of the Azores one of the Portuguese archipelagos.
		The Flores Island is said to be one of the most beautiful of the Islands of which it is part of western group.
		The island was populated the reign of king Manuel I in the year of 1510 with people of some regions of Portugal mainly of the northern provinces.
	www.freeglossary.com /Flores_Island%2C_Portugal (448 words)

	Encyclopedia: Flores Island, Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Lajes das Flores is both a parish and a district in western part of the Azores.
		There are a parish and an island that have the name Faial in Portugal: In the Azores Faial Island, an island in the Azores In Portugal Faial, a parish in the district of Santana This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share...
		Terceira Island is a Portuguese island in the Azores Archipelago, in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Flores-Island%2C-Portugal (1648 words)

	Flores, island, Indonesia
		Flores is heavily wooded, rugged, and mountainous, rising to 7,872 ft (2,399 m).
		The Dutch gradually gained control of the island, although Portugal held the eastern end until 1851 and the natives were not completely subjugated until 1907.
		The Flores Sea is north of the island and S of Sulawesi.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0818960.html (142 words)

	Azores Island of Flores information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The island of Flores, with an area of 143.11 km2, is 17 km long and 12.5 km at its widest point.
		The island is situated on 31º 59' west longitude and 39º 25' north latitude.
		The discovery date of the islands of Flores and Corvo is a controversial issue, although it is known that it took place after that of the other seven islands of the Azores.
	www.azores.com /azores/flores.asp (2228 words)

	Flores (island) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Flores (island)
		Flores is generally mountainous with both active and extinct volcanoes; there are periodic earthquakes.
		The population of Flores consists of Melanesian, Australoid, and indigenous peoples, not Malay, and is predominantly Roman Catholic in religion.
		The Portuguese were the first Europeans to colonize the island, and eventually sold it to the Dutch in the 17th century.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Flores+(island) (189 words)

	Flores Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Portuguese Ilha Das Flores, westernmost island of the Portuguese Azores archipelago, in the North Atlantic.
		portion of the western South Pacific Ocean, bounded on the north by the island of Celebes (Sulawesi) and on the south by the Lesser Sunda Islands of Flores and Sumbawa.
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034622?tocId=9034622 (848 words)

	Flores Island, Indonesia
		Flores is 375 km long; the single potholed road which loops and snakes from one end of the island to the other, almost twice that length.
		Part of Nusa Tenggara, the island chain stretching east of Bali towards Australia, Flores is a skewed cocktail of lush paddy fields, arid plains, rugged hills and dense jungle.
		Although 85% of Flores population are Catholic, a legacy of the colonizing Europeans, Christianity is fused with traditional beliefs.
	goinside.com /98/9/flores.html (1358 words)

	Flores Island, Portugal - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In the center of the island are the seven lakes.
		The island has two municipalities, Santa Cruz das Flores and Lajes das Flores, each of which have more than 4,000 inhabitants.
		The island was populated in the reign of king Manuel I, in the year of 1510, with people of some regions of continental Portugal, mainly of the northern provinces.
	en.freepedia.org /Flores_Island%2C_Portugal.html (319 words)

	Ethnologue: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara
		South central Flores, between Ngad'a and Nage in Kecamatan Golewa in the administrative villages of Sara Sedu, Taka Tunga, Sanga Deto, and in Kecamatan Boawae in desa Rowa, all in Kabupaten Ngada.
		Islands of Sawu and Raijua south of Flores and west of Timor, and in Sumba (especially in Melolo), in Ende on Flores, and the Kupang area of Timor.
		Timor Island, north coast, regions of Maubara and Liquisa from the banks of the Lois River to Dili.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Indn.html (2258 words)

	Flores - Azores Tourist Guide - Destinazores
		The typography of the island is extremely rugged, marked by high elevations with its’ cliffs descending gently at some points and sharply at others and terminating in valleys and gracious lakes amidst extensive areas of natural vegetation.
		Lajes was the first to be populated on the island of Flores making it the island town, but no real document exists to substantiate this.
		The “Rocha dos Bordões”, ex-libris of the entire island, is a natural monument of unusual beauty, touched by forces of nature throughout the centuries forming vertical indented lines of basalt which bestow upon it a majestic appearance.
	www.destinazores.com /flores.php (583 words)

	Zinken - archaeology news: oktober 2004
		On the island of Flores in the Malay Archipelago, scientists have found remains of a race of three-foot high humans who hunted pony-sized elephants and rats as big as dogs and who battled dragons with saliva laced with deadly bacteria.
		The partial skeleton of Homo floresiensis, found in a cave on the island of Flores in 2003, was of an adult female that was a metre tall, had a brain smaller than a chimpanzee's, and probably lived alongside modern humans on the island.
		The partial skeleton of Homo floresiensis, found in a cave on the island of Flores, is of an adult female that was a meter (3 feet) tall, had a chimpanzee-sized brain and was substantially different from modern humans.
	zinken.typepad.com /palaeo/2004/10/index.html (4915 words)

	Ancient Human Species Found on Flores Island of Indonesia
		She is the best example of a trove of fragmented bones that account for as many as seven of these primitive individuals that lived on the equatorial island of Flores, located east of Java and northwest of Australia.
		Millennia ago, Flores was a kind of a looking-glass world, a real-life Middle-earth inhabited by a menagerie of fantastical creatures like giant tortoises, elephants as small as ponies and rats as big as hunting dogs.
		Flores island lies between East of Bali and North of Australia.
	www.komodotours.com /news.html (1654 words)

	Biology Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The "island dwarfing" was supposedly due to a shortage of food on Flores, which also led apparently to smaller size in the local species of elephant.
		Villagers on Flores told a story of how tiny Hobbit-like humans used to live on a nearby mountain until conflict with the villagers led to their demise a few generations ago.
		To assign the small size of a hominid on Flores to "island dwarfing" seems to depend on an argument that Flores is a small island (it isn't); that there were few resources (despite the existence of rats, giant lizards and elephants); and that humans typically get small on islands (they don't).
	julianodea.blogspot.com (1190 words)

	Tsunami News for Flores, Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Jessica Floresâ 5-year-old daughter, Sofie, was watching the Nickelodeon network one night with her family when a report aired about the tsunami victims in...
		After learning of the tsunami, Flores said she began calling family members to see whether there was news of her parents and brother.
		A temblor that struck the Flores Island in 1992 triggered a tsunami that...
	danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2004/Flores.html (1492 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Flores Island
		The regencies affected are Rote Ndao on Rote Island, North Central Timor, South Central Timor, Lembata, Belu, Kupang on Timor Island, Sikka, Ngada and East Flores on Flores Island, East Sumba and West Sumba on Sumba Island and Alor Island.
		The fossil was discovered in a limestone cave on Indonesia's Flores Island, east of the so-called Wallace Line dividing islands that once were connected to Australia and Asia and those, such as Flores, that remained isolated for millions of years.
		It will be recalled that the findings on Flores Island centred on the remains of hominins early versions of humanity which included the skeleton of a woman of just three feet tall...
	news.surfwax.com /geography/files/Flores_Island.html (1734 words)

	Reefseekeers.net -Flores Island
		Around 200 nautical miles East of Bali in Indonesia, is the magical island of Flores, in terms of culture and tourism, it is as far removed again from Bali as you can imagine.
		Flores was known as Pulau Nipa (Snake Island) before the Portuguese arrived and they renamed it Flores (Flower Island).
		With so many mountains and volcanoes, as you can imagine the road system is less than direct and although the length of the island is 360 kilometers, the road system is over 800 kms of winding spectacular scenery filled roads connecting Labuan Bajo in the West to Maumare in the East.
	www.reefseekers.net /island.html (115 words)

	Hobbit Human-Like Species Found on Flores Island in Indonesia
		Paleoanthropologist are actively searching the Island of Flores and surrounding islands to find similar or intermediate species.
		A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia.
		Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia.
	www.godandscience.org /evolution/hobbit.html (1052 words)

	On TV : Your Private Island : Flores : Fine Living
		This removed, isolated island of incredible natural beauty is an infinite pool of discovery, from breathtaking waterfalls to the rocky beach buried underneath.
		Santa Cruz is the capital of Flores, and Lajes is the second largest village on the island.
		Flores was a hideout for pirates because of its position between Europe, Africa and the Americas, and whaling was a traditional part of the Azorean life until 1984.
	www.fineliving.com /fine/your_private_island/article/0,1663,FINE_1637_2426688,00.html (355 words)

	Flores Island, Lake Kelimutu, Flores Island of Indonesia
		It lies between Sumbawa and Timor islands is an abbreviation of Cabo da Flores which was used by Portuguese sailor in the 17th century to identify the cape on the eastern end of the islands because of its underwater gardens.
		Predominantly Catholic, the have retained several aspects of the Portuguise culture such as the Easter parade held annually at Larantuka on the eastern part of the island and the Royal Regalia of the former King of Sikka.
		The accommodation on Flores island consisting of local standard which has air-conditioned with pools, some has limited facilities, simple accommodation/inns and also local houses.
	www.bali-travel-online.com /flores_island/flores_travel_directory.htm (647 words)

	BC Parks - Flores Island Provincial Park, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
		Flores Island Provincial Park includes the western and southern parts of Flores Island, in the Clayoquot Sound of Vancouver Island's west coast.
		An attraction of Flores Island is the Ahousat Wild Side Heritage Trail, a 32-km round trip wilderness hike from the Nuu-chah-nulth village of Ahousat (population 400) across the slopes of Mount Flores to the pristine beaches along the southern and western shores of the island.
		The park is accessible by boat or kayak from Hot Springs Cove or by kayak, boat water taxi and floatplane from Tofino, 12.5 miles (20 km) to the south.
	www.vancouverisland.com /ParksAndTrails/Parks/details/?ID=362 (691 words)

	Flores island contains 3-foot skeletons - Sci-Tech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Scientists have recently recovered at least seven skeletons of "little people" from the island of Flores, which lies near Indonesia.
		These little people lived at least as recently as 18,000 years ago on the island of Flores.
		Flores at the time would have featured a tropical landscape with primitive Komodo dragons, giant tortoises, rats the size of dogs, and miniature elephants.
	www.thetriangle.org /news/2004/11/05/SciTech/Flores.Island.Contains.3Foot.Skeletons-794689.shtml (345 words)

	Flores Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flores Island, Portugal is in the Portuguese Azores archipelago.
		Flores Island, British Columbia lies of the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flores_Island (99 words)

	ANA Airports >> Flores Airport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Ilha das Flores is Europe's westernmost point.
		The airport is located in the village of Santa Cruz and provides links to the other islands.
		While landing or taking-off, all one see is a small island with a rich flora.
	www.ana-aeroportos.pt /ANAIngles/Flores/HomePage.htm (74 words)

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