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Lang Tengah Island is located about 40 km north east of Kuala Terengganu (22.5 km from Tanjung Merang) on the east coast of peninsular Malaysia.. Tanjung Merang is a small fishing village 45 minutes north of Kuala Terengganu and the jetty is a few minutes outside of the village.
Tengah Island (Malay: Pulau Tengah), also known as Babi Tengah Island (Malay: Pulau Babi Tengah), is a privately owned island in the Mersing District of Johor, Malaysia, located approximately nine nautical miles off the coast of Mersing in the South China Sea. The island covers an area of about 1.39 km 2 [1]
Tenggol Island (Malay: Pulau Tenggol, Terengganuan: Pula Tenggo) is an island around 24 kilometres (15 mi) off the coast of Terengganu, Malaysia. [1] [2] It is the last island in a string of islands that include Pulau Perhentian and Pulau Redang. It is connected by ferry to Kuala Dungun on the mainland. [citation needed]
The Perhentian Islands appear on many maps from the nineteenth and twentieth century as 'The Station Islands'. This arises from the British colonial period, as an English translation of "stopping point". Pulau Perhentian was one of the islands where Vietnamese refugees or boat people landed during the 1970s.
Batu Kawan forms an island off Seberang Perai; it is physically cut off from the mainland by the Jawi River to the north and the Tengah River to the south.The suburb neighbours Bukit Minyak (in Central Seberang Perai District) to the north, Bukit Tambun to the east and Sungai Jawi to the south.
The Tengah Islands are a group of islands in the Flores Sea in Indonesia, lying just north of the Lesser Sunda Islands, scattered off the north coast of Mount Tambora in Sumbawa. They are south-west of the Sabalana Islands .
The former name of this river island was Peria Island, peria being the Malay word that means 'bittergourd', alluding to the shape of the island. The name was changed to Duyong, a Malay word that means 'mermaid', after the residents of the island were allegedly reported to see two mermaids landing on its shore.
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