Bomberai Peninsula
| Bomberai Peninsula | ||
 Vogelkopf and Bomberai Peninsula (in the southeast of the map) |
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| Coordinates | 3 ° 9 '19 " S , 133 ° 10' 16" O | |
| Waters 1 | Seramsee | |
The Bomberai Peninsula is a peninsula on the western end of the island of New Guinea .
geography
Together with the Vogelkop Peninsula and offshore islands to the north, the Bomberai Peninsula forms the Indonesian province of Papua Barat ( West Papua in German ). The west of the peninsula is occupied by the administrative district ( Kabupaten ) Fakfak , the north belongs to Teluk Bintuni and the southeast to Kaimana .
To the north are Berau Bay and Bintuni Bay ( Bentuni Bay ), which separate the Bomberai Peninsula from the Vogelkop Peninsula. The islands of Amutu Besar , Asap , Arguni and Ogar are located off the north coast . In the northwest on the south coast of the Fakfak peninsula is the place Fakfak , the most important port of the peninsula. Opposite it is the island of Panjang in the Tamaruni Bay .
Further south are the island of Samai and the Sebakorbucht , which is protected by the offshore island of Karas towards Tamaruni Bay . To the southeast lies the island of Adi, across the Nautilus Strait ( Indonesian Selat Nautilus ) . To the east, the Kamraub Bay separates the peninsula from the rest of New Guinea. At its northernmost point in the bay is the island of Freterenusu . Only narrow land bridges connect the Bomberai Peninsula with the neighboring land masses.
Residents
Different languages are traditionally spoken on the peninsula. The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages include four languages in the north and one in the south with a total of 2,600 speakers.
Mor (in the northwest) and three other languages of the peninsula are assigned to the Trans New Guinea languages of the Papuan languages . You speak to more than 7,000 people. There are theories that the East Timorese Papuan language, Fataluku, and other Timor-Alor-Pantar languages originally came from the Bomberai Peninsula.
fauna
The fauna of the Fakfak Mountains includes the black-eared bower bird and Oninia senglaubi , a member of the narrow-mouthed frog family.
On the Vogelkop and Bomberai peninsula and the offshore islands together 24 endemic species of rainbow fish ( Melanotaenia ) live, many of them in the karst areas, including the harlequin rainbow fish .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Fakfak
- ↑ The Great World Atlas, Millennium House, 2009, ISBN 978-1-921209-31-4 .
- ↑ Stephen Back Hall: The Rough Guide to Indonesia , P. 1022 , 2003, ISBN 978-1-858289-91-5 .
- ↑ Andrew McWilliam: Austronesians in linguistic disguise: Fataluku cultural fusion in East Timor ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 171 kB)
- ↑ Darrel R. Frost: Oninia senglaubi . Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference, Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York 1998-2015, accessed December 21, 2015
- ↑ Nugraha, MFI, Kadarusman, Hubert, N., Avarre, JC, Hadiaty, RK, Slembrouck, J., Carman, O., Sudarto, Ogistira, R. & Pouyaud L. (2015): Eight new species of Rainbowfishes ( Melanotaeniidae) from the Birds Head Region, West Papua, Indonesia. Cybium, 39 (2): 99-130.
