Tarakan

Tarakan

In geography, Tarakan may refer to:
* Tarakan (volcano) in Halmahera islands
* Tarakan Island in the east of Borneo
* Tarakan, East Kalimantan, a city on Tarakan Island

Two battles during World War II:
* Battle of Tarakan (1942)
* Battle of Tarakan (1945)

And to two ships named after the 1945 battle:
* HMAS Tarakan (L-129), a heavy landing craft commissioned in 1973,
* HMAS Tarakan (L-3017), a tank landing ship commissioned in 1946.


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