Indonesia is a very special country. The Indonesian Archipelago consists of over 17,000 islands. It is considered to be the world’s largest island country. Having so many little islands, it is a melting pot of culture. There, over 700 different languages are spoken.
And look at what the melting pot has boiled up on the small island of Buton. Some indigenous people there have a strange genetic fluke known as Waardenburg syndrome, which may cause hearing loss, and in this case, dazzling, piercing, electric blue eyes that remind us of Frank Herbert’s Fremen from Dune. As you can see, it can even affect a single eye, making them heterochromatic.
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Waardenburg syndrome may affect only a single eye.
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Editor’s note: the breathing mask is used for artistic purposes.
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