Jaco Island
Jaco Island is an uninhabited island in Timor-Leste, a country occupying the eastern end of the island of Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Southeast Asia. It lies off the eastern tip with Cape Cutcha of the island of Timor.Photo: Andidut, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in eastern Indian Ocean
- Also known as: “Hyako”, “Ilhéu de Jaco”, “Jaco”, “Jako island”, “Nusa-besi”, and “Yako”
- Historically known as: “Nusa Besi Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tutuala and Tutuala.
Tutuala
Hamlet
Photo: J. Patrick Fischer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tutuala is a village and suco in the subdistrict of Tutuala in Lautém District, Timor-Leste. It is situated at the extreme eastern end of Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 3,707. Tutuala is situated 8 km northwest of Jaco Island.
Tutuala
Tutuala is a village in the Lautém district at Cabo Cutcha the easternmost peninsula of East Timor. The village is famous for cave paintings, several thousand years old, though young when compared to remains of the first inhabitations of the island.
Jaco Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Tutuala, Lautém Municipality, Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Jaco Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Jaku adası”
- Catalan: “Illa de Jaco”
- Catalan: “Jaco”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Jaco”
- Chinese: “雅科島”
- Croatian: “Jaco”
- Czech: “Jaco”
- Dutch: “Jaco”
- French: “Jaco”
- German: “Jaco”
- Greek: “Τζάκο”
- Indonesian: “Jaco”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Jaco”
- Italian: “Jaco”
- Japanese: “ジャコ島”
- Korean: “자쿠섬”
- Lithuanian: “Jako sala”
- Lithuanian: “Žako sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jaco”
- Norwegian: “Jaco”
- Polish: “Jaco”
- Portuguese: “Jaco”
- Russian: “Жаку”
- Sindhi: “ياڪو ٻيٽ”
- Slovak: “Jaco”
- Spanish: “Isla de Jaco”
- Tetum: “Jako”
- Ukrainian: “Жаку”
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