Flores Islands is a place not to be missed by any traveler. The name Flores was given by the Portuguese and it means “Flowers.” The island is one of Lesser Sunda Islands, which are a group of islands in the eastern Part of Indonesia. The population of the Island is about 1,850,000 and the largest town is the town of Maumere. The location of Flores is east of Sumbawa island and Komodo National Park. On the east side of Flores are the islands of Lembata and the Alor Archipelago. It is northwest of the island of Timor and North of Sumba Strait and Sumba island. To the north is the Flores Sea and the island of Sulawesi. There are many extremely unique things about flores, and one of them being that before modern humans arrived, Flores was actually inhabited by Homo floresiensis which is a pygny archaic human. A few Remains of these pygny archaic humans have been found and they have been found to have anatomical differences from modern humans. As recent evidence shows that the Homo Floresienses like become extinct from the island about 50,000 years ago. The island was also the habitat of several extinct dwarf forms of the proboscidean Stegodon, disappearing approximately 12,000 years ago.
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