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The Sibuyan Sea is a small sea in the Philippines that separates the Visayas from the northern Philippine island of Luzon.. It is bounded by the island of Panay to the south, Mindoro to the west, Masbate to the east, and to the north Marinduque and the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon Island.. The Sibuyan Sea is connected to the Sulu Sea via the Tablas Strait in the west, the South China …

Cagayan Valley is the large mass of land in the northeastern region of Luzon, comprising the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino, and the Batanes group of islands. It is bordered to the west by the Cordillera mountain range, to the east by the Sierra Madre, to the south by the Caraballo Mountains, and to the north by the Luzon Strait.

Luzon (/ l uː ˈ z ɒ n /; Tagalog pronunciation: ) is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.Located in the northern portion of the Philippines archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as well as Quezon City, the country's most populous city.With a population of 64 million as of 2021, it contains 52 ...

Aparri (Ilocano: Ili ti Aparri; Tagalog: Bayan ng Aparri), officially the Municipality of Aparri, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cagayan, Philippines.According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 68,839 people. It sits at the mouth of the Cagayan River, the longest river in the Philippines, about 55 miles north of Tuguegarao, the provincial capital.

Samar is the third-largest island in the Philippines by area, after the islands of Luzon and Mindanao. Mount Huraw is Samar’s highest point, with an elevation of 2,920 ft (890 m).. Samar is the easternmost island in the Visayas. It lies to the northeast of Leyte, separated from it only by the San Juanico Strait, which at its narrowest point is only about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) across; …

Island Country/Territory Population Area km 2. Density (per km 2) . Kotelny Island Russia 2 23,165 0.000086 Ellesmere Island Canada 146 196,235 0.000744 Banks Island

USAT Liberty: Army transport sunk on 11 January 1942 by Japanese submarine I-166 near Lombok Strait. USS Luzon (PR-7): Gunboat scuttled 5 May 1942 raised by Japanese-sunk while in Japanese service; USAT Meigs: Army transport sunk on 19 February 1942 by aircraft in Darwin Harbour. USS Mindanao (PR-8) Gunboat scuttled to avoid capture 2 May 1942

Chitose (千歳) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served from 1938 to 1944, seeing service as a seaplane carrier and later as a light aircraft carrier during World War II.In her initial guise as a seaplane carrier, she first saw service during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938, and subsequently played a key role in the Imperial Japanese Navy's development of a …

USS Nicholas (DD/DDE-449) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, serving for a total of 27 years, including through most of World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.She was the second Navy ship to be named for Major Samuel Nicholas.. Nicholas was laid down 3 March 1941 by the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine, launched 19 February 1942; …