Labuan, a small island, distant 6 m. from the W. coast of North Borneo, ceded to Britain in 1846, and administered by the British North Borneo Company; has rich coal-beds; its town, Victoria, is a market for Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago, and exports sago, camphor, and pearls; the population is chiefly Malay and Chinese.
Population (circa 1900) given as 6,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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