Tarutao National Park (Thai: อุทยานแห่งชาติตะรุเตา) consists of 51 islands in the Strait of Malacca, off the coast of Satun Province of southern Thailand.

The oldest surviving eyewitness description of the island dates from December 1606 and January 1607 and is contained in the travelogue of the Dutch East India Company Admiral Cornelis Matelief de Jonge.

[5] During World War II, when support from the mainland was cut off, the guards and prisoners banded together and raided ships sailing through the waters near the island.

He was assisted by two British non-commissioned officers who were on the run for murder and who ironically landed on Tarutao to sit out the war.

After the pirates of Tarutao were eradicated by British forces at the end of the war, fishermen and farmers took up residence on the island.