Tarn Explained

Tarn may refer to:

Places

• Tarn (lake), a mountain lake or pool formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier

England

• The Tarn, a park, nature reserve, and lake in Mottingham, Royal Borough of Greenwich.
• Tarn or Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England
• Tarn Crag (disambiguation), a number of hills in the English Lake District
• Tarns, Cumbria
• Tarn Wadling, a former lake near High Hesket in Cumbria

France

• Tarn (department), a department in southwest France
  • Lisle-sur-Tarn, France, a commune in the Tarn department
  • Marssac-sur-Tarn, France, a commune in the Tarn département
• Tarn (river), a river in France
  • Gorges du Tarn, France, a canyon along the course of the Tarn River
• Tarn-et-Garonne, a department in southwest France

United States

• Tarn Oil Field, an oil field in Alaska, U.S.

Chile

• Mount Tarn, a summit on the southern part of the Strait of Magellan, Chile

Outer space

• 13032 Tarn, a main-belt minor planet

People

• Aleks Tarn (born 1955), journalist and author
• Gary Tarn (born 1962), British filmmaker and composer
• Maria Dyer (née Tarn, 1803–1846), British Protestant Christian missionary to the Chinese
• Michael Tarn (born 1953), British film and television actor
• Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928), British-American poet
• Tarn Adams (born 1978), American co-creator of the video game Dwarf Fortress
• Tarn Mann, Indian writer, producer and director
• William Woodthorpe Tarn (1869–1957), 20th century British historian and author

Transport

• HMS Tarn (P336), a Second World War British T class submarine
• Tarn Light Railway

Fiction

• Tarn, a type of large bird ridden by characters in the Gor fiction series by John Norman
• Tarn, a Decepticon in the Transformers franchise

See also

• Tarn Taran (disambiguation), various places
• Tarne, a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders)