We have an island but supposedly on different planet.
This island called Socotra, this is the only island we have but that its plants won't grow any other else. Its an isolated island..
a remote island with plants up to 20 MILLION years old
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The landscape of remote Socotra Island looks as if it comes from a sci-fi film but in fact has evolved to look so other-worldy as the 'lost world' island has been separated from mainland Africa for between six and seven million years.
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Socotra Island is home to around 800 rare species of flora and fauna, around a third of which are found nowhere else on the planet.
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A dragon's blood tree is pictured
[QUOTE]Here is the distinctive desert rose, or bottle tree endemic to Socotra
The Map
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Beautiful beach
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The island has three distinct geographical terrains - narrow coastal plains, a limestone plateau and mountains (pictured where a dead dragon's blood tree lies) that rise to 1,500 metres and has recently been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...years-old.html
