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Papua New Guinea? or Indonesia?[edit]

The text of the article tries to have it both ways - or is it a type where it should have been west papua - surely papua NG and Indonesia dont have joint territory? SatuSuro 14:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article seems to be a mixup of three different island groups:

Schouten Islands in Indonesia, which included Biak, Supiori, Numfor/Noemfoor. Apparently Yapen is not considered part of this group, but I'm not sure about this.
Schouten Islands in Papua New Guinea, about 100 km east of Wewak. Probably the most notable member of this group is the volcanic island of Bam.[1]
Kairiru mentioned in the article appears to be an island and not a town. It is not a member of either group - instead it belongs to Wewak Islands just offshore of Wewak.

There is no physical connection between Indonesian and PNG Schouten Islands - they were just both named after this dutch captain Schouten. And then of course there is also Schouten Island in Australia named after him. – Sadalmelik 22:39, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

shouldn't this article be renamed Biak Islands?[edit]

Since the comments above this article is now clearly about the Indonesian Schouten Islands. Does anyone have any views/information on whether Schouten Islands or Biak Islands is most commonly used for this group in English? Certainly the official name appears to be Kepulauan Biak. Just a thought... Istanbuljohnm (talk) 06:29, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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