Yefyus is a small island in the shallow sea south of the
Bird's Head Peninsula
The Bird's Head Peninsula ( Indonesian: ''Kepala Burung'', nl, Vogelkop) or Doberai Peninsula (''Semenanjung Doberai''), is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indonesian provinces ...
of
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
. It is known in Indonesian as Pulau Yus ( Yus Island), and its name was previously spelt using the Dutch orthography as Jef Joes. It is located south-southwest of the promontory of
Tanjung Wamonket in the northwest of the Bird's Head mainland, east-southeast of the isolated island of
Yefyal, and northwest of the islands of
Efkasya in the archipelago off
Misool
Misool, formerly spelled Mysol (Dutch: Misoöl) or Misol, is one of the four major islands in the Raja Ampat Islands in Southwest Papua, Indonesia. Its area is 2,034 km2. The highest point is 561 m and the main towns are Waigama, located ...
.
Yefyus is about 300 meters long and 150 meters wide, and is in the middle of a coral reef. The land is covered by a patch of forest, which is surrounded by beaches of
coral sand
Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secr ...
. There is a tower with a light on the island, and on the edge of the reef a shipwreck.
Sources
*{{Cite book, title = Sailing directions (enroute) : New Guinea, year = 2018, publisher = National Geospatial-intelligence Agency, url = https://msi.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub164/Pub164bk.pdf, page = 117
Islands of Western New Guinea
Landforms of Southwest Papua