Kapas Island ( ms, Pulau Kapas,
Terengganuan: ''Pula Kapah'') is an island in
Marang District
The Marang District is a coastal district in Terengganu, Malaysia. The district seat is the town of Marang. The districts that border Marang are Kuala Terengganu and Kuala Nerus to the north, Hulu Terengganu in the west, while Dungun is in the s ...
,
Terengganu
Terengganu (; Terengganu Malay: ''Tranung'', Jawi: ), formerly spelled Trengganu or Tringganu, is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, ''Dāru l- Īmān'' ("Abode of Faith"). ...
, Malaysia, with a smaller island, Pulau Gemia, located north of it.
It measures roughly .
Its name, Pulau Kapas (
Malay
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* Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore
** History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century
** Indonesi ...
for ''cotton island''), refers to the island's white beaches. The island has
tropical jungle, clear
seawater
Seawater, or salt water, is water from a sea or ocean. On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% (35 g/L, 35 ppt, 600 mM). This means that every kilogram (roughly one liter by volume) of seawater has appro ...
, white sand beaches and coral reefs in the surrounding waters. It is promoted as a "diving and snorkeling paradise".
The island is reached by ferry from Marang.
Kapas is the location where most of the research on the enigmatic ''
Amphidromus
''Amphidromus'' is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae. The shells of ''Amphidromus'' are relatively large, from to in maximum dimension, and particularly colorf ...
'' snails is carried out (unlike all other snails, ''Amphidromus'' are
amphidromine: they usually exist of clockwise and anticlockwise individuals).
[Schilthuizen, M., P. G. Craze, A. S. Cabanban, A. Davison, E. Gittenberger, J. Stone & B. J. Scott, 2007. Sexual selection maintains whole-body chiral dimorphism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20: 1941-1949.]
See also
*
List of islands of Malaysia
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List of islands in the South China Sea
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References
External links
Tourism Malaysia - Pulau Kapas*
Islands of Terengganu
Marang District
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