High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ramree Island (Burmese: ?????????????; also spelt Yangbye Island or Yanbye Island) is an island off the coast of Rakhine State, Burma. The area of the island is about 1350 km?. The Battle of Ramree Island took place here for six weeks during January and February 1945, as part of the British Fourteenth Army 1944/45 offensive on the Southern Front of the Burma Campaign during World War II. Ramree island is also the place credited with "The Greatest Disaster Suffered from Animals". An estimated 400 Japanese soldiers were forced into the marshes surrounding the island as the British soldiers closed in. Waiting for these soldiers were very large and aggressive saltwater crocodiles. After the Japanese infantry was forced into the murky waters, the ensuing night was so horrific that Guinness World Records lists Ramree island with this dubious title. Ramree Island is also the location of a proposed gas pipeline system to built on the Indian Ocean...

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