The beauty Outermost Islands Indonesia; Salando
Salando Island or by the local community known as the island of Lights, is a very small island and is located in the Celebes Sea. Within 1, 18 Nautical Miles or about 2, 13 Kilometers of this leading directly adjacent island with Malaysia and the Philippines.
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Salando island is uninhabited island. This island has a hilly topography with a lot of vegetation growing on it. Though uninhabited, the island has a lighthouse tower. Its presence helps navigate cruise ships and boats that pass in the waters of this island. No wonder the locals call this island the island of light.
The island has Salando morphology of steep hills with slopes above 30. This island is a glimpse of the rock piles with a height of up to 50 meters above sea level.
Type Salando beaches around the island is a rocky beach type formed from rocks that have a high resistance which is a granite rock. This beach is characterized by shoreline bordered by steep rocks to very steep.
Help authors of this island has a granite relief in the form of fresh color greenish gray, weathered brown color, hard to very hard, On the south side of the island, the result of weathering of rocks produces coarse sandy beaches are derived from quartz minerals they contain.
Salando in Tolitoli means clever. Out of nowhere mentions the meaning of this island began. The surrounding population can only mean the name alone. Salando have an area of only about 0.3 square kilometer. Of coastal rocks and cliffs with a height of 70 meters.
Salando Island underwater tourism has the potential. This is evident from the many types of coral reefs that grow around its waters. In addition to views of mountainous islands and meti and scorched sand lengthwise.
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