This series contains material from Biak, Numfor and parts of the Waigeo and Yapen Islands, concentrating on the Biak and Numfor Austronesian languages. It includes a 156-page printed dictionary cum wordlist (in Dutch), with a brief forward.

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.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biak

Waigeo is an island in West Irian Jaya province of eastern Indonesia. It is located in the Raja Ampat Islands archipelago, between Halmahera and the northwest coast of Papua. The town of Wasai, on Waigeo, is the capital of the district of Raja Ampat.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waigeo

For information on Yapen Island: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapen

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