Conserving Raja Ampat The Raja Ampat Archipelago is known as the “crown jewel” in the Papuan “Bird’s Head Seascape” (named for the distinctive shape of the northwestern section of the island of New Guinea), an area with unparalleled marine biodiversity. As of September 2008, current species tallies for the Bird’s Head include over 1356 species [...]

Dive Areas Raja Ampat is all about diversity – not only diversity of species, but also of dive sites. There are some areas where soft corals and sea fans dominate, others with amazing diverse hard corals, seagrass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, drop offs, caves, black sand, white sand…Then there are the fish, lots of them, [...]

Raja Ampat Island The Raja Ampat Island in Irian is group spreads out over a huge area and consists of over 610 islands. The four largest islands are Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati and Misool. The area’s reefs are covered in a diverse selection of both hard and soft corals. Most of the areas reefs are pristine, [...]

The Raja Ampat area of Northwest Papua (the second largest island in the world) is filled with islands, surrounded by reefs and inundated with fish! Most of the areas reefs are pristine, with mile after mile of perfect hard corals, drift after drift of Dendronephya (soft) corals of many species and colors ranging from brilliant [...]

The new fee system will be signed into law and all the materials required for the new tag system (tags/receipts) will be ready for the launch on the 15th July 2007. The annual tag will normally be valid from the 1st January until the 31st January of the following year. This year the tags will [...]

RAJA AMPAT EXPLORER is a pinisi-shaped boutique live-aboard, manned by a friendly and competent, local crew. One of the only pinisis with a dive platform! Accommodation for 14 passengers is provided in 7 cabins: 3 doubles and 4 with twin bunks. All have individually controlled air conditioning and private bathrooms. and many small but important [...]

Raja Ampat Dive Lodge Location: Yenpapir Beach – Mansuar Island Raja Ampat Dive Lodge is located at the heart of the most spectacular diving in northern Raja Ampat. Mere minutes from the famous Manta aggregation sites and the fish-filled dives at the western edge of the Dampier Strait, our intimate lodge is the prefect place [...]

West Papua Indonesia comprises the western half of the huge island of New Guinea situated just northern tip of Australia and at the far eastern reaches of the Nusa Tenggara. It is one of the planets final frontiers both above and below the ocean. Most of the diving here is concentrated around the recently discovered [...]

Best Coral Reefs and Greatest Diving on Earth : It’s Raja Ampat Islands Indonesia The Raja Ampat, or “Four Kings,” archipelago encompasses more than 9.8 million acres of land and sea off the northwestern tip of Indonesia’s West Papua Province. Located in the Coral Triangle, the heart of the world’s coral reef biodiversity, the seas [...]