Sula Island

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Geography
Coordinates 13°16′15.8″N123°49′48.9″E / 13.271056°N 123.830250°E / 13.271056; 123.830250
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Region Bicol Region
Province Albay
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Sula Island

Sula Island is an island located in the Albay province of the Philippines. [1]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">San Pedro Sula</span> City and municipality in Cortés, Honduras

San Pedro Sula is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley, about 50 kilometers south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 701,200 in the central urban area and a population of 1,445,598 in its metropolitan area in 2023, it is the nation's primary industrial center and second largest city after the capital Tegucigalpa, and the largest city in Central America that is not a capital city.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sula, Møre og Romsdal</span> Municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Sula is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre district. The administrative centre is the village of Langevåg. Other villages include Solevåg, Fiskarstrand, Veibust, Leirvågen, and Mauseidvåg. Sula is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Møre og Romsdal county, and it is part of the Ålesund Region since it is just south of the city of Ålesund. The municipality encompasses the island of Sula and the many small surrounding islets.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">North Rona</span>

Rona is an uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic. It is often referred to as North Rona to distinguish it from the island of South Rona in the Inner Hebrides. It has an area of 109 hectares and a maximum elevation of 108 metres (354 ft). It is included within the historic county of Ross-shire.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vostok Island</span> Uninhabited coral island of eastern Kiribati

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Red-footed booby</span> Species of bird


The red-footed booby is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. Adults always have red feet, but the colour of the plumage varies. They are powerful and agile fliers, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings. They are found widely in the tropics, and breed colonially in coastal regions, especially islands. The species faces few natural or man-made threats, although its population is declining; it is considered to be a least-concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sula Sgeir</span> Island in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK

Sula Sgeir is a small, uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic, 18 kilometres west of Rona. One of the most remote islands of the British Isles, it lies approximately forty nautical miles north of Lewis and is best known for its population of gannets. It has a narrow elongated shape running north-northeast to south-southwest, and is approximately 900 m long by typically 100 m wide.

The Sula Islands Regency is one of the regencies in North Maluku province of Indonesia. It was originally formed on 25 February 2003, when it encompassed the three large islands comprising the Sula Archipelago, together with minor adjacent islands. However, the largest and most westerly of the three, Taliabu, was split off from the Sula Islands Regency on 14 December 2012 to form a separate regency.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Taliabu Island Regency</span> Regency in North Maluku, Indonesia

Taliabu Island Regency is a regency in the North Maluku province of Indonesia, mainly consisting of the island of Taliabu, the most western geographically of the Sula Islands archipelago. It was formerly part of the Sula Islands Regency, but on 14 December 2012 it was administratively separated to form a separate regency. It is located to the west of Mangole Island and Sanana Island, the two islands which remain part of the Sula Islands Regency. Taliabu Island Regency covers 2,985.75 km2; it had a population of 47,309 at the 2010 Census and 58,047 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 63,231.

<i>Jamides</i> Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Jamides, commonly called ceruleans, is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm, the Palearctic realm and the Australasian realm.

The Central Maluku languages are a proposed subgroup of the Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family which comprises around fifty languages spoken principally on the Seram, Buru, Ambon, Kei, and the Sula Islands. None of the languages have as many as fifty thousand speakers, and several are extinct.

<i>Moduza</i> Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Moduza is a genus of south-east Asian brush-footed butterflies commonly called the commanders.

<i>Saletara liberia</i> Species of butterfly

Saletara liberia is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in Indonesia, the Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia and various islands in the region. Subspecies S. l. distanti is known by the common name Malaysian albatross.

<i>Taractrocera luzonensis</i> Species of butterfly

Taractrocera luzonensis is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from south-western Burma and northern Thailand through Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines to Sulawesi and neighbouring islands.

<i>Batocera</i> Genus of beetles

Batocera is a genus of the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Lamiinae, close to the genus Rosenbergia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sula Lighthouse</span> Lighthouse

Sula Lighthouse is a coastal lighthouse in the municipality of Frøya in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lighthouse is located on the island of Sula. The lighthouse was originally built here in 1793 and another in 1804. The current tower was built in 1909. It is part of a series of lighthouses along the Froan islands in Frøya including the Finnvær Lighthouse, Vingleia Lighthouse, and Halten Lighthouse. It is lit from July 21 until May 16 each year. It is not lit during the summer due to the midnight sun of the region.

The Sula golden bulbul is a species of songbird in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae. It is endemic to Sula Island in the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

<i>Appias aegis</i> Species of butterfly

Appias aegis, the forest white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in south-east Asia.

Mangole is a dialect of the Sula language that is primarily spoken on Mangole Island in Indonesia.

References

  1. Official Gazette - Republic of the Philippines. 1921. p. 765.

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