Talk:Tabar Island

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Need a better word

At the end of the Geography section, I found these words: "barely distant canal that separates the islands". That's a rather obscure use of the word "distant". Can't we use a better word? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 14:30, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]