• The Komo­do drag­on (Varanus komo­d­oen­sis) is a species of large size lizards.
• It was the dri­ving fac­tor for an expe­di­tion to Komo­do Island, Indone­sia, by W. Dou­glas Bur­den, great-grand­son of rail­way mag­nate Cor­nelius Van­der­bilt, in 1926.
• One spec­i­men lives in cap­tiv­i­ty in Sin­ga­pore, Botan­ic Gar­dens.

The film made of the first expe­di­tion to Komo­do Island pro­vid­ed the inspi­ra­tion for the 1933 movie King Kong.

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