Tarakan Island
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Coordinates: 3°21′0″N 117°34′0″E / 3.35°N 117.56667°E
For other uses, see Tarakan.
Tarakan is an island off the coast of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is a marshy island situated in the eastern Celebes Sea, off the northeastern coast of Borneo. The island occupies an area of 117 square miles (303 km²).
Tarakan was the site of battles between Allied and Japanese forces in 1942 and 1945.
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- "Map of Tarakan island". Multimap.com. http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?scale=500000&lon=117.566667&lat=3.35&icon=x. Retrieved on 2006-03-11.
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