Waigeo
Waigeo is an island in West Papua province of eastern Indonesia. The island is also known as Amberi, or Waigiu. It is the largest of the four main islands in the Raja Ampat Islands
Raja Ampat Islands archipelago, between Halmahera
Halmahera and about 65 kilometres (40 miles) to the north-west coast of New Guinea. The Dampier Strait (a.k.a. Augusta's Strait) separates it from Batanta, and the Bougainville Strait from the Kawe Islands to its north-west
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Southeast Asia
Asia or Southeastern Asia
Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea
New Guinea and north of Australia.[4] Southeast Asia
Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia
Asia and Bay of Bengal, to the east by Oceania
Oceania and Pacific Ocean, and to the south by Australia
Australia and Indian Ocean. The region is the only part of Asia that lies partly within the Southern Hemisphere, although the majority of it is in the Northern Hemisphere
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols.[n 1] The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position, and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position
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Special
Special or specials may refer to:Contents1 Music 2 Film and television 3 Other uses 4 See alsoMusic[edit] Special
Special (album), a 1992
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West Papua (Indonesian: Papua Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It covers the two western peninsulas of the island of New Guinea
New Guinea along with nearby islands
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Coordinates: 5°S 120°E / 5°S 120°E / -5; 120 Republic
Republic of Indonesia Republik Indonesia (Indonesian)FlagNational emblemMotto: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika
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Halmahera, formerly known as Jilolo, Gilolo, or Jailolo, is the largest island in the Maluku Islands. It is part of the North Maluku province of Indonesia
Indonesia and Sofifi, the capital of the province, is located on the west coast of the island. Halmahera
Halmahera has a land area of 17,780 km2 (6,860 sq mi), it is the largest island of Indonesia
Indonesia outside the 5-main islands
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New Guinea
New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Dutch: Nieuw-Guinea; German: Neuguinea; Indonesian: Papua or, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia. It is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi), and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere and Oceania. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the independent state of Papua New Guinea
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Dampier may refer to:Dampier, Western Australia Division of Dampier, an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia
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Australia from 1913 to 1922 Dampier County, one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales, Australia.
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Karstama Davie & Ng, 2007Karstarma is a genus of karst-dwelling crabs formerly included in Sesarmoides.Contents1 Description 2 Ecology & biogeography 3 Taxonomy 4 ReferencesDescription[edit] Karstarma is distinguished from the closely related Sesarmoides by the lack of a stridulatory structure on the cheliped which is present in the latter genus.[3] Ecology & biogeography[edit] All species in the genus Karstarma are typically found in anchialine pools[3] across the West Pacific.[2] Taxonomy[edit] The genus name Karstarma is derived from the word karst, in arbitrary combination with the genus name Sesarma.[3] It has been frequently misspelt Karstama, including in the original description.[2] In the original description of the genus, 12 species were included.[3] Three species have since been added.[2][4]Karstarma ardea Wowor & Ng, 2009 Karstarma balicum (Ng, 2002) Karstarma boholano (Ng, 2002) Karstarma cerberus (Holthuis, 1946) Karstarm
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In addition to its classical and literary form, Malay had various regional dialects established before the rise of the Malaccan Sultanate. Also, Malay spread through interethnic contact and trade across the Malay archipelago as far as the Philippines. That contact resulted in a lingua franca that was called Bazaar Malay or low Malay and in Malay Melayu Pasar. It is generally believed that Bazaar Malay was a pidgin, influenced by contact among Malay, Chinese, Portuguese, and Dutch traders. Besides the general simplification that occurs with pidgins, the Malay lingua franca had several distinctive characteristics. One was that possessives were formed with punya 'its owner'; another was that plural pronouns were formed with orang 'person'
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Coordinates: 25°S 133°E / 25°S 133°E / -25; 133Commonwealth of AustraliaFlagCoat of armsAnthem: "Advance Australia
Australia Fair"[N 1]Capital Canberra 35°18′29″S 149°07′28″E / 35.30806°S 149.12444°E / -35.30806; 149.12444Largest city SydneyNational language English[N 2]DemonymAustralian Aussie
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A pearl is a hard glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as a conulariid. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite)[3] in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers. The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, but many other shapes, known as baroque pearls, can occur. The finest quality natural pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty for many centuries. Because of this, pearl has become a metaphor for something rare, fine, admirable and valuable. The most valuable pearls occur spontaneously in the wild, but are extremely rare. These wild pearls are referred to as natural pearls. Cultured or farmed pearls from pearl oysters and freshwater mussels make up the majority of those currently sold
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Jorge de Menezes (c. 1498 – 1537) was a Portuguese explorer, who in 1526–27 landed on the islands of Biak (Cenderawasih Bay), whilst he awaited the passing of the monsoon season, and on the northern coasts of the Bird's Head Peninsula, calling the region Ilhas dos Papuas. He is thus credited with the European discovery of New Guinea.[1] Jorge de Menezes was the Portuguese Governor of the Moluccas from 1527 until 1530, residing on Ternate. While in office, he plundered a Spanish fort on Tidore, poisoned the sultan of Ternate
Ternate and committed atrocities against the local population. Subsequently he was arrested and sent to Portuguese India. After his return to Portugal
Portugal he was banished to the colony of Brazil, where he died in combat against Indians in 1537.[2] References[edit]^ Kratoska, Paul H. (2001)
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Nepenthes
Nepenthes danseri (/nɪˈpɛnθiːz ˈdænsəraɪ/; after B. H. Danser, botanist) is a species of tropical pitcher plant. It is known only from the northern coast of Waigeo Island; plants from Halmahera, the largest of the Maluku Islands, are now recognised as belonging to a separate species, N. halmahera.[4] Nepenthes
Nepenthes danseri was formally described in 1997 by Matthew Jebb
Matthew Jebb and Martin Cheek in their monograph "A skeletal revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae)", published in the botanical journal Blumea.[2] However, the name N. danseri had already been in use since at least 1994.[5] Nepenthes
Nepenthes danseri most commonly inhabits open scrub or bare soils on ultramafic rock
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Hypolycaena phorbas is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Waigeo, Biak, Roon Island, mainland New Guinea and various outlying islands as well as Australia.[1] The wingspan is about 30 mm. Adults are brown on top. The forewings of the males have a blue sheen and a large dark patch in the middle, while females have a white patch with a blue edge. The hindwings of both males and females have two tails beside a large black and white eyespot. The underside is fawn, with two rows of darker spots parallel to the wing margins
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