Biak
Americannoun
noun
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The dead from the raid were initially buried on Biak.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022
Biak had been seized from the Japanese in 1944.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022
Benson and Moynihan were both stationed near an airstrip just off the beach on Biak, now part of Indonesia.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022
Like most refugees from Chin State, Mr. Biak Tling headed to India’s Mizoram State, which shares a porous border with Myanmar.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2021
Scattered about in the waters of the great Geelvink Bay are many islands of various sizes, such as Biak or Wiak, Jappen or Jobi, Run or Ron, Noomfor, and many more.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
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