 To the south, across the Sumba Strait, is Sumba island and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi.Among all islands containing Indonesian territory, Flores is the 10th most populous after Java, Sumatra, Borneo (Kalimantan), Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bali, Madura, Lombok, and Timor and also the 10th biggest island of Indonesia.Until the arrival of modern humans, Flores was inhabited by "Homo floresiensis", a pygmy archaic human.