Location
Berhala Island is located at the entrance to Sandakan Harbor off Sandakan on the northeast coast of Borneo. Prewar, the island was a leper colony.
Wartime History
The Japanese used it as a prison camp in 1941 American writer Agnes Keith married to a agent for the British North Borneo Company who produced and sold rubber was captured with her husband by the Japanese and temporarly imprisoned on Berhala Rock and later transfered to the prison camp at Kuching.
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Last Updated
March 20, 2022
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