Tarn
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Tarn may refer to:
Geographical features
- Tarn (lake), a mountain lake or pool formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier
- Tarn (river), a river in France
- Mount Tarn, a summit on the southern part of the Strait of Magellan
- Tarn Crag (disambiguation)
Places
- Tarn (department), a département in southwest France
- Barnsley or Tarn, South Yorkshire
- Tarn Oil Field, an oil field in Alaska
Transport
- Tarn Light Railway
- HMS Tarn (P336), a Second World War British T class submarine
Other uses
- 13032 Tarn, a main-belt minor planet
- Tarn, a type of large bird ridden by characters in the Gor fiction series by John Norman (e.g. in the first book, Tarnsman of Gor)
- TARN, an abbreviation for a type of financial derivative structure (Target Accrual Redemption Note)
People with the name
- William Woodthorpe Tarn (1869–1957), 20th century British historian and author
- Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928), British-American poet
- Maria Dyer née Tarn (1808–1846), British Protestant Christian missionary to the Chinese
- Tarn Adams (born 1978), American co-creator of Dwarf Fortress
See also
- Tarne, a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders)
- Tarn-et-Garonne, a French département in the southwest of France
- Tarn Taran (disambiguation)
- Tarn Vikings
- Tarnschriften, publications camouflaged to avoid censorship in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945
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