In the sixteenth century, the Portuguese sent missionaries to Ende on the southern coast, but it was the arrival of the Dutch from 1618 that ended its traditional relationship with the rulers of Celebes.  
The 1974 eruption of Mount Kelimutu turned one of this island's "three colored lakes" from blue to red.  In the sixteenth century, the Portuguese sent missionaries to Ende on the southern coast, but it was the arrival of the Dutch from 1618 that ended its traditional relationship with the rulers of Celebes.  Isolated from its western neighbor Sumbawa by the Sape Strait and from its still-divided southern neighbor by the Savu Sea, this member of the Lesser Sundas is home to a small population of Komodo dragons, which once fed on Stegodon, the island's now extinct dwarf elephant.  FTP, name this Indonesian island, once also home to a recently discovered dwarf member of genus Homo.
The 1974 eruption of Mount Kelimutu turned one of this island's "three colored lakes" from blue to red.  
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