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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