Komodo dragon collision between Australia and Southeast Asia allowed these larger varanids to move back into what is now the Indonesian archipelago, extending their range as far east as the island of Timor. The Komodo dragon was believed to have differentiated from its Australian ancestors 4 million years ago. However, recent fossil evidence from Queensland suggests the Komodo dragon actually evolved in Australia before spreading to Indonesia. Dramatic lowering of sea level during the last glacial period uncovered extensive stretches of continental shelf that the Komodo dragon colonised, becoming isolated in their present island range as sea levels rose afterwards. Extinct Pliocene
Dragon Island wide at its greatest extent, and about 4 km long, located just off the southwestern point of the island of Majorca, approximately 210 km due east of Valencia, Spain. This island comprises the "Parc Natural Sa Dragonera". It is the island referred to as Dragon Island in chapter eight of the historical novel Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. There is also a Dragon Island in the fictional world of Narnia in the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader." Dragon Island Dragon Island is a privately owned island off the northeast coast of New Zealand's Great Barrier Island, located