The Hinako Islands are a group of small islands off the west coast of Nias Island in the Sirombu District of the West Nias Regency, which is part of the North Sumatra Province of Indonesia.

The waves at Bawa were revealed in magazine articles and a surf film in 1994, featuring surfers Tom Curren and Francis Desmond "Frankie" Oberholzer riding some of the biggest waves ever seen in Indonesia at that time filmed by Sonny Miller.^[1]