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	Biak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Biak is a small island located in Cenderawasih Bay near the northern coast of Papua, an Indonesian province, and is just northwest of New Guinea.
		Biak is the largest island in its small archipelago, and has many atolls, reefs, and corals.
		The largest population centre is at Kota Biak (Biak City) on the south coast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biak (236 words)

	Papua Adventures - Biak and Yapen Islands
		Biak is one of the better known areas of West Papua and it formerly served as a major air-stopover on trans-pacific flights from Indonesia.
		That being said, a visit to Biak, sitting off the north-west coast, is certainly one of the easier options in West Papua.
		The Biak people are ethnic Melanesians, thus differing from the majority of Papuans, and have been largely "Christianised" by missionaries.
	www.papua-adventures.com /biak.html (273 words)

	Wapnase: About Biak Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The island of Biak also spelled as WIAK was discovered in 1567 by the Spain Alvarez, and by Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, Dutch explorer whose in his 1615- 16 expedition discovered a new route, the Drake Passage, around the southern trip of South America, connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific.
		Biak Island is largest of the Schouten Islands, off the northern coast of West Papua (Indonesian, Irian Jaya) at the entrance to Cendrawasih (Geelvink) Bay.
		Biak was seized by the Japanese in April 1942 during their expansion in World War II; and defetead by Allied forces maintenance their way to Okinawa in 1944.
	global.wapnase.com /page/island.shtml (540 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Biak-Numfoor rain forests (AA0103)
		The Biak gerygone (Gerygone hypoxantha) and Biak monarch (Monarcha brehmii) are considered endangered, and the fl-winged lory (Eos cyanogenia) is considered vulnerable (IUCN 2000).
		The human population in Biak Island is the highest among the offshore islands, and the island has already undergone a phase of logging operations; in fact, further logging is economically unfeasible.
		Yapen and Biak islands, which MacKinnon combined within biounit P3c, were delineated as separate ecoregions; Yapen Rain Forests [AA0108] and Biak-Numfoor Rain Forests [AA0103], respectively, were based on recommendations by Bob Johns (vegetation) and Bruce Beehler (birds) and the patterns of mammal distribution.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0103_full.html (916 words)

	The Undisclosed Truth of Biak
		He told General Krueger his superior that he needed more help with the size of the enemy on Biak, and that a lack of water for his men was hurting the effectiveness of his units.
		Biak was an intense battle, fought in some of the most brutal terrain and enemy defenses of the Pacific theater.
		Little publicity went to the sacrifice and achievement at Biak because individuals of the high command did not want to publicize their own mistakes.
	amh.freehosting.net /biak.html (1550 words)

	Biak Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Biak was seized by the Japanese in April 1942 during World War II; it was retaken May 27–July 22, 1944, by Allied forces.
		Biak was seized by the Japanese in April 1942 during World War II; it was retaken May 27–July 22, 1944,...
		The town of Biak, on the southern coast of Biak, is the main settlement and...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9079081?tocId=9079081 (798 words)

	Birds » Parrots » Eclectus Parrot - Biak Red Sided Main Page
		Biak Red Sided Eclectus Parrots may be fed plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables along with a good basic pellet diet or seed mix.
		Biak Red Sided Eclectus Parrots are native to the island of Biak, located in the Solomon Islands.
		Because female Biak Red Sided Eclectus Parrots will often sit on their eggs awkwardly or forcefully and accidentally break them, a slanted or L shaped nesting box is recommended so the birds have room to position themselves better.
	www.centralpets.com /animals/birds/parrots/prt1094.html (875 words)

	Kabupaten Biak Numfor - Selasa, 14 Januari 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BANDARA itu terletak di Pulau Biak yang termasuk dalam Kabupaten Biak Numfor.
		Biak Numfor semula dikenal sebagai satu-satunya kabupaten kepulauan di antara 14 kabupaten/kota di Provinsi Papua, namun kini tidak lagi setelah ada pemekaran menjadi 28 kabupaten/kota.
		Wajar bila kontribusi perikanan menempati urutan pertama kegiatan ekonomi Biak Numfor dari tahun ke tahun.
	www.kompas.com /kompas-cetak/0301/14/nasional/80766.htm (807 words)

	Discover Biak - West Papua \| Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The chief islands are Biak, Supiori, and Numfor.
		The town of Biak, on the southern coast of Biak, is the mainsettlement and administrative centre.
		The islands, particularly Numfor and Biak, are among the most densely populated areas of West Papua (Irian Jaya).
	www.arumbaihotel.com /biak.html (134 words)

	Regions Central Asia - IIAS Newsletter Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Biak is an Austronesian language which is spoken in various dialects in the Schouten Islands, in parts of the Raja Ampat archipelago, and in settlements along the north coast of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West New Guinea.
		Most unusual, however, was the curious distribution of the opposition, which was a counter-example to the alledged (and indeed plausible) language 'universal' that a language must have at least as many gender oppositions in the singular as it has in the non-singular.
		More research was needed for Biak into the meaning of the grammatical gender, into the extremely complicated deictic system, and into the structure of noun phrases in relation to that deictic system.
	iias.leidenuniv.nl /iiasn/21/regions/21SEA13.html (972 words)

	Biak Diving - Irian Jaya Travel Packages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Biak's most spectacular dives, both for the fishes and the bottom profiles, are in the Padaido Islands.
		It is a long way to Biak and if you have travelled this far, there's plenty to explore with either time or money (best, as anywhere else, is to have both!).
		Arrive Biak airport meeting service then transfer to Arumbai hotel or Irian Hotel for check in.After lunch at hotel by coach proceed to Wadibu beach for scuba diving.Late afternoon back to your hotel for dinner overnight.
	www.travellingtoindonesia.com /irianjaya/biak-diving.htm (851 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		World War II was at its climax, and Biak was a base for Japanese resistance in the easternmost part of the archipelago.
		It is a shame, however, that the park is unkempt and a number of birds have died of starvation as funds for their feed from the provincial administration arrived too late.
		As Biak is part of a reef, not many of its beaches are sandy, and tourists go to the tiny islands nearby, like Padaido and Rurbas, to find the perfect sunbathing spot.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20050626.L05 (1044 words)

	West Papua Action - Witness to a Bloodbath Lindsay Murdoch November 14, 1998
		The people of Biak have traditionally seen themselves as great warriors and they collected Molotov cocktails and spears to defend their new land and lives as independent West Papuans.
		The flag-raising in Biak on 2 July had turned violent, fuelling anger among the Indonesian security forces on the island and prompting orders to bring in troops from Ambon and other provinces.
		She reports: 'There were unconfirmed reports from local people that some of the bodies had their hands tied behind their backs and one was wearing a Golkar (Indonesian) T-shirt, giving rise to the belief that at least some of the bodies might be those of shooting victims.
	www.westpapuaaction.buz.org /biak-massacare-2.htm (2765 words)

	Intimacy and Alienation: Money and the Foreign in Biak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Biak Island had been the site of massive destruction during the war, and it might well be again if Semuel's fears were to bear out and the fire were to spread three blocks to the petroleum installation at the harbor.
		Although they are expressed in capital, the values people transact do not find their measure in a crystallization of abstract human labor or in the outcome of an interplay between supply and demand.
		Although money appears in Biak as an integrating force, this function is associated with potentially subversive conceptions of the nature of personal and political power....
	www.newschool.edu /gf/publicculture/backissues/pc34/rutherford.html (984 words)

	Biak Diving - Irian Jaya Travel Package (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is located in the village of Rim, district of East Biak and is accessible within thirty minutes by motorbike or car.
		It is located 15 minutes by motorbike or public transport from Biak town.
		Beside it`s sparkling sand, the water is so clear that make it suitable beach, which it reachable within 15 minuets by motor bike or public transport.
	www.travellingtoindonesia.com /irianjaya/biak-interest.htm (360 words)

	Indonesia: Human Rights and Pro-Independence Actions in Irian Jaya- Introduction
		Celsius Raweyai, forty-six, self-employed as a porter in the Biak airport, he took part in the singing of the hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers" as the flag was being raised.
		Andreas Marsyom, thirty-seven, is a civil servant in the district government of Yapen Waropen and is a native of Dobo village, subdistrict Warsa, North Biak.
		Nehemia Ronsumbre, forty-three, is a fisherman from Paray village, East Biak, who turned himself in to the police on July 7 and was eventually released into the custody of his family.
	www.hrw.org /reports98/biak/appendix.htm (1476 words)

	Biak
		After the turn of events in the rest of New Guinea, the Japanese began fortifying the island unbeknownst to the American Army units, primarily the 41st Infantry Division on May 27, 1944.
		Japanese soldiers were well entrenched in the interior of the island in limestone caves and fortifications, a trend that would be seen again in islands like Palau.
		The casualties at Biak were high - for the American Army, 435 KIA and 2,360 WIA.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/irian_biak.html (1044 words)

	USS Fletcher DD-445 at Biak Island, June 8, 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was believed that the enemy would attempt to reinforce or evacuate his forces under attack on Biak Island, that such operations would most probably be attempted at night, and that the troops would be carried in enemy naval vessels, probably cruisers or destroyers.
		The combined Task Force 74 and 75 were assigned to patrol in the area north and west of Biak Island during the night of June 8 - 9, 1944 in order to intercept and destroy equal or inferior forces encountered.
		Whilst on covering patrol it is my intention to operate to eastward of Biak during the day, closing the island so as to be in the general vicinity of Point Erg (1°00'S, 136°34'E) by 1900 daily.
	www.ussfletcher.org /biak.html (4991 words)

	West Papua Action - Biak Massacre - Info Point
		At 5.30 in the morning of July 6, 1998, in Biak, an island off the north coast of West Papua, Indonesian troops opened fire on peaceful Papuan demonstrators.
		Claims at the time by the Indonesian authorities that the bodies were victims of a tidal-wave disaster in neighbouring Papua Guinea have been dismissed: the tsunami happened on July 17, eight days after the bodies were washed ashore.
		West Papua Action held a Vigil in Dublin to commemorate the Biak massacre on Saturday July 1, 2000 at the entrance to St. Stephen's Green.
	westpapuaaction.buz.org /biak-massacre.htm (415 words)

	Flash floods in Biak-na-Bato are caused by rampant quarrying & logging : QC IMC
		The corruption within the government especially in the DENR and the collusion of the military and police with the quarry and mining operators are the major reasons why illegal quarrying and mining in the Biak-na-Bato National Park is thriving.
		The victims were part of a group from Malanday, Valenzuela that went to the park to have a picnic.
		"The heavy siltation and sedimentation caused by the quarrying of marbles and deforestation of remaining forest in Biak na Bato, reduces the natural capacity of the Balaong River and other rivers to hold water thus frequent flashfloods happen during the rainy season," said Januar Ong, forester and environmental researcher of Center for Environmental Concerns (CEC).
	qc.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1489 (470 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Biak-Numfoor rain forests (AA0103) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Biak, Supiori, and Numfoor Islands÷along with several outlying islands÷contain a variety of moist rain forest tree species.
		Logging and subsistence farming have damaged or destroyed much of the forest on Biak and Numfor.
		Currently, logging on Biak is not economically feasible.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0103.html (364 words)

	Biak Diving
		Biak is located on the northern coast of Irian Jaya Province, far east of Indonesia.
		The main island of Biak is characterized by atols and surrounded by long reefs and corals among the small islands spread around.
		Air transfer, accomodation, and many facilities can be easily found in Biak.
	www.geocities.com /biakdiving (139 words)

	KLM Super Constellation "Neutron" crash, Biak 1957
		Biak is an island to the North of New Guinea, in 1957 still Dutch.
		One minute before the crash, the captain used the PA system to inform the passengers they would get one last glimpse of the Biak lights before continuing to Manila, Philippines.
		The aircraft was seen to flash landing lights on and off while making a 180 degree turn over Owi island at about 1000ft (300m), but gradually lost altitude until it hit the sea and broke apart in two or three pieces, to burst into an "enormous" fire with a sound like a bomb exploding.
	www.cyberbore.com /sansrancune/neutron.html (777 words)

	Fall AGU 1998 - Biak Seismicity & Inversion
		There was no such inversion available immediately after the Biak, 1996 event, and so we took the alternative approach of using the spatial distribution of post-mainshock upper-plate seismicity to infer information about the distribution of slip in the main event.
		The event was a thrust in a zone of very oblique convergence, and was followed by a number of events in the upper-plate, the two largest of which were the M
		At time of analysis of the Biak earthquake no available inversion of the source-time function or distribution of slip from the main event.
	bullard.esc.cam.ac.uk /~taylor/Biak.html (1694 words)

	Diving Indonesia : Biak Irian Jaya
		The Padaido archipelago is located in east Biak.
		From Biak it takes an hour by boat to get here.
		After breakfast then by outrigger boat exploring in 2 hour to Mansurbabo island for scuba diving.Lunch box and mineral water provided and afternoon return to Biak to your hotel for dinner overnight.
	indonesiadiving.com /biak (234 words)

	Bahasa Biak Numfor Menjadi Bahasa Lokal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bahasa Biak Numfor sedang dalam proses menjadi bahasa daerah lokal Papua.
		Buku-buku mengenai bahasa Biak ini sedang diperbanyak untuk ditawarkan ke sekolah-sekolah di kabupaten lain di Papua.
		Upaya mengangkat bahasa Biak menjadi bahasa lokal sebagai salah satu bentuk pelestarian budaya asli Papua.
	www.westpapua.net /news/02/07/190702-mtongue.htm (408 words)

	Robert Petersen - Biak Photographs
		Contributes photographs from his collection of the fighting on Biak.
		I think the reason the guns are misisng on the tank is because the Japanese controlled this area at night.
		This costal gun was depicted on the Jungleers on Biak painting It was orginally British, it had a brass plate that said "Singapore" and a date around 1920.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /people/veterans/petersen.html (68 words)

	BIAK NUMFOR REGENCY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Among the nine regencies in Papua, Biak Numfor is the only one that consists of islands.
		Biak Numfor regency is inhabited by 102.492 people spreading in 8 district, 7 sub districts, and 153 villages.
		Light rains fall 189-399 mm per month between 22-29 days, which occurs a lot during the months of Januari to June whereas the dry season in between July to October.
	www.petra.ac.id /eastern/irian/cities/biak/biak.htm (179 words)

	Yorkshire CND - Indonesian government plans rocket launch facility - 15/12/03
		Indonesia and Russia are discussing the establishment of a spaceport and rocket launching facility on Biak Island, off the northern coast of West Papua.
		But the Biak project may never get off the ground, in the face of tough competition for the business of launching commercial satellites into space.
		Biak, located close to the Equator, already hosts a satellite tracking facility to support India's space program.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/bmd/indonesian_launch_facility.htm (619 words)

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