San Miguel Island is an island under the jurisdiction of the Philippine province of Masbate. [1] The island has a lighthouse mounted atop a concrete tower. [1] San Miguel Island is located "just off the northern tip" of Ticao Island. [2]
The Bicol Peninsula is a peninsula of Luzon Island in the Philippines. Part of the Bicol Region, the provinces on the peninsula include Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, and Sorsogon; the two other provinces of the Bicol Region, namely Catanduanes and Masbate, are offshore islands.
San Miguel, officially the Municipality of San Miguel,, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 153,882 people.
Naval Station San Miguel is an installation of the Philippine Navy located in San Antonio, Zambales, The Philippines. The United States turned over the base to the Philippine government in 1992.
The Republic of Negros was a short-lived cantonal revolutionary republic in the eponymous Visayan island, and later, an administrative division, which existed while the Philippines was under Spanish and American sovereignty.
The Jun Bernardino Trophy is a trophy awarded to the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) team that wins the PBA Philippine Cup Finals.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cebu is a Roman Rite archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines and one of the ecclesiastical provinces of the Catholic Church in the country. It is composed of the entire civil province of Cebu. It is the Mother Church of the Philippines. The jurisdiction, Cebu, is considered as the fount of Christianity in the Far East.
The 1957 crash of a Douglas C-47 plane named "Mt. Pinatubo" on the slopes of Mount Manunggal, Cebu, Philippines, killed the 7th President of the Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay, and 24 other passengers. The crash is estimated to have occurred at 1:40 a.m., March 17, 1957, Philippine Standard Time. Several high-ranking Philippine government and military officials, as well as journalists, were also among the dead. A reporter for the Philippine Herald, Nestor Mata, was the sole survivor of the accident.
Batag Island Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse on Batag Island off the coast of the town of Laoang in the province of Northern Samar in the Philippines. The light marks the northeastern point of Samar Island and lead international ships to the entrance of the San Bernardino Strait marked by the San Bernardino Light. One of the most traveled waterways in the archipelago, together with the Capul Island Light, these stations are invaluable to vessels coming from the Pacific Ocean and entering the country through the San Bernardino Strait on its way to Manila or any other ports of the Philippines.
Capul Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Titoog Point in San Luis on the northern tip of Capul Island, Northern Samar in the Philippines. It marks the western entrance to the San Bernardino Strait coming in from Ticao Pass.
Bagatao Island Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located on Bagatao Island on the eastern side of the entrance to Sorsogon Bay, in the province of Sorsogon in the Philippines. The 29-ft white cylindrical iron tower is situated on the rocky headland that forms the southern point in the western end of the Island, giving the total light elevation of 135 ft. The light not only marks the entrance to the bay, but also assist ships in navigating the bend around Ticao Island of Masbate province as they head to San Bernardino Strait and exit to the Pacific Ocean.
Capones Island Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located in Capones Island off the coast of Brgy. Pundaquit, San Antonio, in the province of Zambales, in the Philippines. The light guide international vessels coming from the north to northwest towards Subic Bay or to Corregidor Island Lighthouse at the entrance of Manila Bay. It has first-order lenses when it was first lit on August 1, 1890.
Capones Island, also known as Grand Capon or Capon Grande Island is a small island approximately 1.9 kilometers (1.2 mi) long by 0.4 kilometers (0.25 mi) wide, at its widest point, lying some 3.8 kilometers (2.4 mi) off the coast of the province of Zambales on western Luzon island in the Philippines. It is the largest of the Capones Islands, a group of three small islands which also includes nearby Camara Island and another islet connected to it by a sand bar. The island is administratively part of barangay Pundaquit of the Zambales municipality of San Antonio.
Masin is an island located in the Oriental Mindoro province of the Philippines.
Ambil is an island in the Philippines located in the region of the Occidental Mindoro province. It was formed by a conical mountain that is around 2,500 feet (760 m) in height. It is the 93rd largest island in the Philippine archipelago.
Apo is an island located in the Apo Reef in Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. It is approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) in length.
Ambulong is a small island in the Philippines located on the western side of the Ambolon Strait, that separates it from Ilin Island. Ambulong is located in Occidental Mindoro province of the Philippines, part of the municipality of San Jose. In 1919 it was described as "hilly and well wooded", and in 1919 its elevation at the northern part of the island was recorded at 567 feet (173 m).
Alad is an island in the Philippines. The Philippine third-class municipality of Romblon is located on Alad and on Romblon, Cobrador, and Logbon Islands.
Jintotolo is an island within the Jintotolo Channel, part of the Province of Masbate, Philippines. It constitutes two barangays of the Municipality of Balud and has a population of 3,574 persons in the 2015 census.
The Baco Islands are a chain of three small wooded islands in the Philippines, located off the northern coast of Mindoro island. The Baco Islands are located off the coast of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, in the Verde Island Passage and are administered as part of the city of Calapan. The island chain consists of:
