Bidan Island
Bidan Island is a small island off the coast of Yan, Kedah, Malaysia. Located 17 nautical miles north from Penang, the island was used by Australian Defence force personnel and families from Butterworth/Penang as a holiday retreat for a week or two in the 1970s and 1980s, with little to no contact with the outside world, except by two-way radio.- Type: Island
- Description: Island in Malaysia
- Also known as: “Pulau Bidan”
Bidan Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Kedah, West Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Malay—“Bidan Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pulau Bidan”
- German: “Pulau Bidan”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Bidan”
- Malay: “Pulau Bidan”
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