The Desventuradas Islands is a group of four small oceanic islands located 850 kilometres (530 mi) off the coast of Chile, northwest of Santiago in the Pacific Ocean. They are considered part of Insular Chile.
Tabaco, officially known as the City of Tabaco, is a 4th class component city in the province of Albay, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 140,961 people.
Batan or Batán may refer to the following places:
Rapu-Rapu, officially the Municipality of Rapu-Rapu, is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Albay in the Bicol Region of the Philippines. The population was 36,151 at the 2020 census.
Typhoon Ora, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Konsing, was a June 1972 Category 1 typhoon that left 131 people dead and $15 million in damage.
Miss Universe 1997, the 46th Miss Universe pageant, was held on May 16, 1997, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Brook Lee of the United States was crowned by Alicia Machado of Venezuela at the end of the event. 74 delegates competed in this year.
Lagonoy Gulf is a large gulf in the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon island in the Philippines. It is separated from the Philippine Sea by the Caramoan Peninsula in the north; and is separated from Albay Gulf in the south by a chain of islands including Batan Island and Rapu-rapu Island. It is about 3,070 square kilometres (1,190 sq mi) in area, with 80% of its area between 800 metres (2,600 ft) and 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) deep.
Batan Island is an island barangay in the Lagonoy Gulf in the Philippines. Along with Rapu-rapu Island it forms the municipality of Rapu-rapu, in the province of Albay in the Bicol region. Batan Island comprises several barangays which includes Batan, Bagaobawan, Manila, and Bilbao.
William Thomas Mulloy Jr. was an American anthropologist. While his early research established him as a formidable scholar and skillful fieldwork supervisor in the province of North American Plains archaeology, he is best known for his studies of Polynesian prehistory, especially his investigations into the production, transportation and erection of the monumental statuary on Rapa Nui known as moai.
Rampoux is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.
Leonid Bujor was a Moldovan politician. He was the Minister of Education in the First Vlad Filat Cabinet from 25 September 2009 to 14 January 2011.
Cirripectes obscurus, the gargantuan blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny considered endemic to coral reefs in the Hawaiian island chain, although one putative specimen has been collected in the Austral Islands, indicating a possible antitropical distribution. This species reaches a length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in) TL.
Cycas nitida is a species of cycad endemic to the northern Philippines. It is found in littoral forests.
Lynn Rapu Tuki, head-teacher and founder of the Ma'aranui Cultural Academy and the Cultural Ballet Kari Kari, is an active promoter of the arts and traditions of the Rapa Nui People. He is Cultural Ambassador of Asia-Pacific and has been Head of the Liaison Office of the National Council of Culture and the Arts.
Laura Tarita Alarcón Rapu is a Rapa Nui Chilean politician, current governor of Easter Island since 16 March 2018.
Albay's 2nd congressional district is one of the three congressional districts of the Philippines in the province of Albay. It has been represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 1916 and earlier in the Philippine Assembly from 1907 to 1916. The district consists of Albay's capital city of Legazpi and adjacent municipalities of Camalig, Daraga, Manito and Rapu-Rapu. It is currently represented in the 19th Congress by Joey Salceda of the Lakas–CMD.
Hawaiioscia rapui is a species of woodlouse endemic to the island of Rapa Nui. The specific epithet honors Sergio Rapu Haoa, a humanitarian, archaeologist, anthropologist, and politician of Rapanui descent who aided research terms studying this species. It persists as a relict population near the mouths of caves on the island, and is in dire need of conservation. It faces threats such as habitat reduction, non-native species competition, and global climate change. Styloniscus manuvaka is the only other native Isopod on the island, and faces the same perils.
Brasidas is a genus that is native to the Philippines and is named after the Spartan general Brasidas
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