Yefyus is a small island in the shallow sea south of the
Bird's Head Peninsula
The Bird's Head Peninsula ( Indonesian: , , meaning Bird's Head in Indonesian and Dutch) or Doberai Peninsula (''Semenanjung Doberai'') is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indones ...
of
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...
. It is known in Indonesian as Pulau Yus ( Yus Island), and its name was previously spelt using the Dutch orthography as Jef Joes. It is located south-southwest of the promontory of
Tanjung Wamonket in the northwest of the Bird's Head mainland, east-southeast of the isolated island of
Yefyal, and northwest of the islands of
Efkasya in the archipelago off
Misool
Misool, formerly spelled Mysol (Dutch: Misoöl) or Misol, is one of the four major islands in the Raja Ampat Islands in Southwest Papua, Indonesia. Its area is 2,034 km2. The highest point is 561 m and the main towns are Waigama, located on ...
.
Yefyus is about 300 meters long and 150 meters wide, and is in the middle of a coral reef. The land is covered by a patch of forest, which is surrounded by beaches of
coral sand
Coral sand is a form of aragonite sand particles originating in tropical and sub-tropical marine environments primarily from bioerosion of limestone skeletal material of marine organisms. Often, this is due to corallivores, such as parrotfish ...
. There is a tower with a light on the island, and on the edge of the reef a shipwreck.
Sources
*{{Cite book, title = Sailing directions (enroute) : New Guinea, year = 2018, publisher = National Geospatial-intelligence Agency, url = https://msi.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub164/Pub164bk.pdf, page = 117
Islands of Western New Guinea
Landforms of Southwest Papua