Derawan Island

Derawan Island
                                 

Derawan Island located in Derawan Islands, District Derawan, Berau, East Kalimantan island morphology Derawan Unit is bertopografi flat coastal plain. Beach sand has a slope of about 7 ° - 11 ° in width from 13.5 to 20 meters.
Derawan Island has been nominated to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005.
In the surrounding waters are a marine park and is renowned as a tourist submarine (diving) with a depth of about five meters. There are a wide variety of marine life here, including cuttlefish, lobster, ghostpipe fish, octopus bluering octopus, nudibranchs, seahorses, ribbon eels and scorpionfishes.
On the rock at a depth of ten meters, there are reefs known as "Blue Trigger Wall" because of the reef with a length of 18 meters is a lot of red-toothed trigger fishes.