Biak Archipelago
The Biak Islands are an island group of Papua province, eastern Indonesia in the Cenderawasih Bay 50 km off the north-western coast of the island of New Guinea.- Type: Island
- Description: island group in Indonesia
- Also known as: “Biak Islands”, “Geelvink Islands”, “Kepulauan Schouten”, “Misore Islands”, “Schouten Islands”, and “Schouten-eilanden”
Biak Archipelago
- Categories: archipelago and landform
- Location: Special Region of Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Biak Archipelago” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر بياك”
- Arabic: “جزر جيلفينك”
- Arabic: “جزر شوتن”
- Azerbaijani: “Biak adaları”
- Breton: “Inizi Biak”
- Cebuano: “Kepulauan Schouten”
- Chinese: “斯考滕群岛”
- Chinese: “斯考滕群島”
- Dutch: “Geelvink-eilanden”
- Dutch: “Schouten-eilanden”
- Dutch: “Schouteneilanden”
- French: “Iles Schouten”
- French: “îles Schouten”
- French: “Îles Schouten”
- German: “Misore-Inseln”
- German: “Schouten-Inseln”
- Hebrew: “איי סחוטן”
- Indonesian: “Biak Numfor”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Biak”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Schouten”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Skhouten”
- Indonesian: “Pulau-pulau Schouten”
- Italian: “Isole Schouten”
- Japanese: “スハウテン諸島”
- Japanese: “ビアク諸島”
- Lithuanian: “Biako salos”
- Lithuanian: “Gelvinko salos”
- Lithuanian: “Schauteno salos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schoutenøyane”
- Persian: “جزایر اسخاوتن”
- Polish: “Misore”
- Polish: “Schouten”
- Polish: “Wyspy Schoutena”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Biak”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Schouten”
- Russian: “Биак”
- Slovak: “Schoutenove ostrovy”
- Spanish: “Islas Schouten”
- Swedish: “Kepulauan Schouten”
- Swedish: “Schouten Islands”
- Swedish: “Schoutenöarna”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Schouten”
- Western Frisian: “Schouteneilannen”
- Western Mari: “Биак ошмаотывлӓ”
- “Misore”
- “Schouten”
- “Skhouten”
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