Well it isn’t too far from Tataouine...
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9245831,10.4425049,11648m/data=!3m1!1e3
Kewl! IIRC, Lucas heard the name while filming episode 4, liked it, changed the spelling and put it in as the name of the desert planet. Lucas did that a lot. Like the number of the trash compactor (3263827) was actually the direct line phone number to George Lucas’ office at Twentieth Century Fox!
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