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Biak is a little island situated in Cenderawasih Bay close to the northern shoreline of Papua, an Indonesian region, and is only northwest of New Guinea. Biak is the biggest island in its little archipelago, and has numerous atolls, reefs, and corals. The biggest populace focus is at Kota Biak City on the south drift. It is left of the island is meagerly populated with little towns. Biak is a piece of the Biak Islands Kepulauan Biak.

Biak was first announced as located by Europeans by the Portuguese guide Jorge de Menezes in 1526. In his voyage from Malacca to Maluku by means of northern Borneo, Jorge de Menezes arrived at Biak Islands, at the passageway of the Gulf, where he was compelled to winter; the island is thereupon brought in Portuguese maps Ilha de Dom Jorge or Ilha onde invernou Dom Jorge, to wind up, at long last, Ilha de S. Jorge.

The Spanish guide Álo de Saavedra located the island on 24 June 1528, when endeavoring to come back from Tidore to New Spain. Another locating was later announced in 1545 by Spanish pilot Íñigo Ortiz de Retes on leading body of ship San Juan when likewise endeavoring the arrival to New Spain. The archipelago was first mapped in the Portuguese outlines of Gaspar Viegas c. 1537, a mysterious guide of 1540, and on the maps of Joao de Lisboa and of Bartolomeu Velho c. 1560, and by other Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch maps.

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