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
  • Gorges du Tarn, a canyon along the course of the river
• Mount Tarn, a summit on the southern part of the Strait of Magellan, Chile
• Tarn Crag (disambiguation)

Places

France

• Tarn (department), a département in the southwest of the country
• Tarn-et-Garonne, a département in the southwest of the country
• Marssac-sur-Tarn, a commune in the Tarn département
• Lisle-sur-Tarn, a commune in the Tarn département

Elsewhere

• Tarn Oil Field, an oil field in Alaska, U.S.
• Tarn or Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England
• Tarn, California, a former settlement in Fresno County

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

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 Vikings
• Tarn, a type of large bird ridden by characters in the Gor fiction series by John Norman
• TARN (Target Accrual Redemption Note), a type of financial derivative structure
• Tarn Taran (disambiguation)

See also

• Tarne, a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders)
• Tarnschriften, publications camouflaged to avoid censorship in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945