Tanahbesar
| Tanahbesar | ||
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| Waters | Arafura lake | |
| Archipelago | Aru Islands | |
| Geographical location | 5 ° 48 ′ S , 134 ° 33 ′ E | |
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| surface | 1 600 km² | |
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Tanahbesar (also known as Wokam ) is one of the four main islands of the Aru Islands , an Indonesian group of islands about 150 km south of New Guinea in the Pacific Arafura Sea .
Tanahbesar is only separated from the islands of Kola in the north and Kobroor in the south by narrow waterways . These are called Sisirwatoe River and Manoembai River.
The approximately 1600 km² large island is geographically part of the Moluccas , politically to the Indonesian southern province of Maluku .
