Biak

American

[bee-yahk] / biˈyɑk /

noun

an island N of Irian Barat, in Indonesia. 948 sq. mi. (2,455 sq. km).

Biak British

/ biːˈjɑːk /

noun

an island in Indonesia, north of New Guinea: the largest of the Schouten Islands. Area: 2455 sq km (948 sq miles)

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Pandjaitan, a powerful cabinet minister and close ally of Widodo, said the president also asked the billionaire to invest in an AI center and for SpaceX to build a launchpad in Biak, an island in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province.

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Biak had been seized from the Japanese in 1944.

From Washington Post

That body was the only one of the three unknowns from the Biak raid that was still unidentified.

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Moynihan had been killed during a Japanese air raid on the island of Biak in the South Pacific in 1945, and the Army was just now sending him home.

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The dead from the raid were initially buried on Biak.

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