Noemfoor Biak district consists of two small islands, namely the island of Biak Island and Noemfoor as well as more than 42 very small islands, including islands that are excellent Padaido development activities of various parties. The overall area Biak Noemfoor is 5.11% of the total area of Papua province 
At the time of the Dutch government in power in Papua region until the early 1960s that the name is used to name the Biak Islands-Noemfoor is Eilanden Schouten, according to the name of the first European Dutch, who visited the region in the early 17th century other names often encountered in older reports for local residents and this is Kepuluan Noemfoor or Wiak. W phonemes in the word actually comes from the phoneme wiak v which then turned into cud b so came the word as it is used today. Two last names that are then combined into one name is Biak-Noemfoor, with mark horizontal line in between the two words as a hyphen between the two words, which is used to formally named the area and inhabited islands are located in the north Cenderawasih it. In everyday conversation people are just using the name implies Biak are the same as mentioned above.
About the origin and meaning of the name there are several opinions. The first is that the name is derived from the word Biak v`iak that which was originally a word used to call residents who live in remote areas of the islands. The word implies the people who live in the hutan`, `people who are not good at kelautan`, such as not capable to catch fish in the sea, not good at sailing in the sea and across the vast ocean and others. The name given by the inhabitants of the coastal islands that do have high proficiency in maritime matters. Even though the name implies initially insulted certain segments of the population, then that name is accepted and used as the official name for the residents and the area.
Another opinion, the information derived from the oral stories of the people in the form of myth, which tells that the name is derived from the people who left the clan Burdam Biak Island due to their quarrel with the citizens Mandowen clan. According to the myth, the people left the clan decided Burdam Warmambo Island (the original name of the island of Biak) to settle in a place so far away Warmambo Island of sight. So they set out, but every time they turned around they saw the island appear Warmambo above sea level. This situation causes them to say, v`iak wer`, or `v`iak`, meaning he appears again. V`iak word is then used by those who go to the island named Warmambo and until now the name that is still used
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