Raja Ampat

Located off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, inIndonesia's West Papua province, Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelagocomprising over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals surrounding the four main islands ofMisool, Salawati, Batanta, and Waigeo, and the smaller island of Kofiau.

Raja Ampat Regency is a new regency which separated from Sorong Regency in 2004.^[1] It encompasses more than 40,000 km² of land and sea, which also contains Cenderawasih Bay, the largest marine national park in Indonesia. It is a part of the newly named West Papua (province) of Indonesia which was formerly Irian Jaya. The islands are the most northern pieces of land in the Australian continent.