Bird’s Head Peninsula
The Bird's Head Peninsula or Doberai Peninsula is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indonesian provinces of Southwest Papua and West Papua.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peninsula
- Description: geographical object
- Also known as: “Doberai Peninsula”, “The Bird’s Head Peninsula (Indonesian Kepala Burung, Dutch: Vogelkop) or Doberai Peninsula”, and “The Bird’s Head Peninsula Indonesia”
Bird’s Head Peninsula
- Category: landform
- Location: Southwest Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-1.40851° or 1° 24′ 31″ southLongitude
132.81508° or 132° 48′ 54″ eastElevation
97 metres (318 feet)Open location code
6QCJHRR8+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 11918385205OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peninsula
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Bird’s Head Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Península de Doberai”
- Azerbaijani: “Çendravasix yarımadası”
- Balinese: “Samenanjung Doberai”
- Basque: “Txori Buru penintsula”
- Bengali: “দোবেরাই উপদ্বীপ”
- Bengali: “পাখির মাথা সদৃশ্য উপদ্বীপ, পাখি প্রধান উপদ্বীপ, ইন্দোনেশীয় কেপালা বুরুং, ওলন্দাজ ভোগেলকপ) অথবা দোবেরাই উপদ্বীপ”
- Bulgarian: “Чендравасих”
- Catalan: “península de Doberai”
- Catalan: “Península de Doberai”
- Cebuano: “Jazirah Doberai”
- Central Bikol: “Rawis kan Payo nin Gamgam”
- Chinese: “多貝拉伊半島”
- Czech: “Ptačí hlava”
- Czech: “Rajčí poloostrov”
- Dutch: “Vogelkop”
- Esperanto: “Birdokapa Duoninsulo”
- Estonian: “Doberai poolsaar”
- Finnish: “Doberain niemimaa”
- French: “péninsule de Doberai”
- French: “Péninsule de Doberai”
- German: “Vogelkop”
- German: “Vogelkopfhalbinsel”
- Hindi: “पक्षीशिर प्रायद्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Madárfej-félsziget”
- Indonesian: “Kepala Burung”
- Indonesian: “Semenanjung Doberai”
- Italian: “Penisola di Doberai”
- Japanese: “ドベライ半島”
- Korean: “도베라이반도”
- Korean: “새머리반도”
- Latvian: “Doberai pussala”
- Lithuanian: “Čendravasiho pusiasalis”
- Lithuanian: “Doberajaus pusiasalis”
- Lithuanian: “Paukščio Galvos pusiasalis”
- Macedonian: “Птичја Глава”
- Malayalam: “ദി ബേഡ്സ് ഹെഡ് പെനിൻസുല”
- Malayalam: “ബേർഡ്സ് ഹെഡ് പെനിൻസുല”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fuglehodehalvøya”
- Norwegian: “Fuglehodehalvøya”
- Polish: “Ptasia Głowa”
- Portuguese: “Península da Cabeça de Pássaro”
- Portuguese: “Península de Doberai”
- Romanian: “Peninsula Doberai”
- Russian: “Чендравасих (Доберай)”
- Russian: “Чендравасих”
- Slovenian: “polotok Doberai”
- Slovenian: “Semenanjung Doberai”
- Slovenian: “Semenanjung Kepala Burung”
- Slovenian: “Vogelkop”
- Spanish: “Peninsula de Doberai”
- Spanish: “Península de Doberai”
- Swedish: “Doberaihalvön”
- Swedish: “Fågelhuvudhalvön”
- Swedish: “Vogelkophalvön”
- Ukrainian: “Чендравасіх (півострів)”
- Ukrainian: “Чендравасіх”
- Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Đầu Chim”
- Western Mari: “Чендравасих”
- Western Panjabi: “پنچھی سر جزیرہ نما”
- Wu Chinese: “多貝拉伊半島”
- Yue Chinese: “多貝拉伊半島”
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