Sumatra[a] is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent islands such as the Simeulue, Nias, Mentawai, Enggano, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung and Krakatoa archipelago. Sumatra is an elongated landmass spanning a diagonal northwest–southeast axis. The Indian Ocean borders the northwest, west, and southwest coasts of Sumatra, with the island chain of Simeulue, Nias, Mentawai, and Enggano off the western coast. In the northeast, the narrow Strait of Malacca separates the island from the Malay Peninsula, which is an extension of the Eurasian continent. In the southeast, the narrow Sunda Strait, containing the Krakatoa Archipelago, separates Sumatra from Java. The northern tip of Sumatra is near the Andaman Islands, while off the southeastern coast lie the islands of Bangka and Belitung, Karimata Strait and the Java Sea. The Bukit Barisan mountains, which contain several active volcanoes, form the backbone of the island, while the northeastern area contains large plains and lowlands with swamps, mangrove forest and complex river systems. The equator crosses the island at its centre in West Sumatra and Riau provinces. The climate of the island is tropical, hot, and humid. Lush tropical rain forest once dominated the landscape. Sumatra has a wide range of plant and animal species but has lost almost 50% of its tropical rainforest in the last 35 years.[clarification needed] Many species are now critically endangered, such as the Sumatran ground cuckoo, the Sumatran tiger, the Sumatran elephant, the Sumatran rhinoceros, and the Sumatran orangutan. Deforestation on the island has also resulted in serious seasonal smoke haze over neighbouring countries, such as the 2013 Southeast Asian haze which caused considerable tensions between Indonesia and affected countries Malaysia and Singapore.[2]
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Suggested by toonking1985
For those who don't know what this is about I have this idea that in a mid-credit scene of my MonsterVerse Son of Godzilla movie idea we see that Monarch set up an outpost on an uncharted island somewhere in French Polynesia where in the heart of the island in a lake there is a passage way in the lake that leads to Godzilla's underwater temple in the Japan Trench and I would imagine that Minya (and maybe Godzilla) would go through that passageway and spend time on the island when he is not rejuvenating so Monarch setted up an Outpost on the island to preserve and study Minya. Now the fauna of the island is made up of different kinds of animals that wouldn't exist together in the same place (just like in Swiss Family Robinson) and the best way I can describe the wildlife on the island is that it's like someone released a bunch of zoo or circus animals on the island. Minya would be something of guardian and protector of the island as he looks after and takes care of the animals of the island which could help him learn to become a future protector and king of the Titans once Godzilla's time comes.
