Interesting Places in Sandakan

  Sepilok- Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre 

           Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre is located in the Sepilok Forest Reserve - Kabili, 24 km from Sandakan. The centre is dedicated to the preservation and study the endangered orang utan species in the world. Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre, which opened in 1964 and administered by the Sabah Wildlife Department under the Ministry of Tourism Malaysia. This central area including its save forest is 4294 hectar and began to open to tourists visiting in 1964.
           Today there are 300 species of the living orang utan in nature, be fed, bred, and housed here from other places. According to the study of the Sabah Wildlife Department, there were 13,000 orang utan in sabah. Therefore, the selection of the Sepilok as Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre is very timely.
                       
                                 

Sandakan Crocodile Farm

                                                                  

           The Sandakan Crocodile Farm is Malaysia's largest with over 3000 of the reptiles. It is located about 9 km from the town of Sandakan, at Labuk Road. The original stock came from wild crocodiles found along the Kinabatangan River.

           Besides offering visitors an up-close look at Sabah's biggest reptiles, the farm hosts several other attractions as well, including crocodile and snake shows. It also features a mini zoo with a 100kg Amazonian fish, and a children's park. The drive from Sandakan to the farm takes about half an hour.

                                      
                                       crocodile shows

                                      
                                           Koi fishes

                                                        

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Sandakan "The Nature City"

     

This is a map of Sabah State

                                                    Sandakan map

                       

        Sandakan is one of the major towns in Sabah and is the second largest city in the state. Sandakan Bay Sandakan position makes it a good port. Sandakan is on the east coast of the island of borneo and has a population of 479.121 people (2009). Sandakan is a city in the country to the east of Malaysia's most aspects of the latitude and the most to the city located east of the state. Sandakan is located about 1.900 kilometers from Kuala Lumpur, thr capital of Malaysia, and only about 28 kilometers from the border with the Philippines. Sandakan has existed as a residence since 1948.

 
          Sandakan is a captivating town with its very own charm, friendly people and many fabulous places to eat seafood. Sandakan has also its own intriguing history and traces its roots back to the early 1870s, when William Clarke Cowie, a Scottish adventurer and engineer was trading guns and ammunition with the Sultan of Sulu so that he could protect his territories from  the Spanish. In return, the Sultan granted Cowie permission to settle on Pulau Timbang in the Sandakan Bay, where there was a small Suluk Village. Cowie called his base Sandakan, deriving the word from Suluk "SANDA" and the suffix "KAN", and Sandakan translates roughly into "the place that was pawned".

•  City- 46 square miles, or 12.000 ha.
• Semi-urban areas-56 square miles, or 14.500 ha.
• Rural and sea-773 square miles, or 200.124ha.

     

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Information About The Natural Enviroment

         Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. Nature includes all living thing matter and non-living matter that is naturally in the earth. In the purest sense, it is the environment without human activity.

       The word nature is derived from the Latin word "natura" or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis, which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animal, and other features of the world develop of their own accord. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word physis  by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.

             Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" often refers to geology  and wildlife. Nature may refer to the general realm of various types of living plants and animals, and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects- the way that particular types of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed. It is often taken to mean the "natural environment" or "wilderness"- wild animals, rocks, forest, beaches, and in general those things that have not been substantially altered by human intervention, or which persist despite human intervention.

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