Located off the northwest tip of
Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of
New Guinea, in
Indonesia's
West Papua province,
Raja Ampat, or the
Four Kings, is an
archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals surrounding the four main islands of
Misool,
Salawati,
Batanta, and
Waigeo, and the smaller island of
Kofiau. Raja Ampat archipelago is the part of
Coral Triangle which contains the richest marine biodiversity on earth.