Pulau Ayu, often called Pulau Aju, Ayau or simply Ajoe, is a small

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

n island located in the

Ayu Islands The Ayu Islands (Kepulauan Ayu), are a small archipelago south of the Asia Islands and north of Raja Ampat Islands in Indonesia. This group is formed by two coral atolls. The highest point is 106 m.Pub164, 2004 Sailing Directions (Enroute): New ...

above the northern tip of the

Waigeo Waigeo is an island in Southwest Papua province of eastern Indonesia. The island is also known as Amberi, or Waigiu. It is the largest of the four main islands in the Raja Ampat Islands archipelago, between Halmahera and about to the north-w ...

Islands. Pulau Ayu is part of the

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regency of the

Southwest Papua Southwest Papua ( id, Papua Barat Daya) is a province of Indonesia, and is a fraction of Western New Guinea. Despite being named southwest, it is a misnomer and this province is actually located in the northwest edge of Papua. The area that belo ...

geographical and administrative region of

. The two major settlements on the island include Imbik Kuan and Ayu. The island is surrounded by two large

reefs A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes—deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock out ...

. Pulau Reni and Pulau Kanobe are two other small inhabited islands north of Pulau Ayu. Access to the island is limited to small

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due to the reefs and the small size of the island.

World War II

Pulau Ayu and all the islands in the Ayu Archipelago were occupied by the Japanese Empire during

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from 1942 until the end of the war in 1945.

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