Komodo (island) Komodo (island) Komodo () is one of the 17,508 islands that comprise the Republic of Indonesia. The island is particularly notable as the habitat of the Komodo dragon, the largest lizard on Earth, which is named after the island. Komodo Island has a surface area of 390 square kilometres and a human population of over two thousand. The people of the island are descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island and who have mixed with Bugis from Sulawesi. The people are primarily adherents of Islam but there are also Christian and Hindu congregations. Komodo is part of
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