Kalanggaman Island
A sandbar island in the sea between Leyte and Cebu, 10 kilometres west of the town of Palompon, which owns and runs it. The name comes from langgam, the local word for bird: when the sandbar forms it is said …
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Bantayan Island
A flat island of coconut groves in the Visayan Sea, off the northern end of Cebu across the Tañon Strait. It covers 108.77 square kilometres, and most of it lies below 10 metres above the sea. The one taller hill …
Panaon Island
An island about 30 kilometres long at the south end of Leyte, linked to the main island by the Wawa Bridge. Four towns share it: Liloan, San Francisco, Pintuyan and San Ricardo. Liloan is the largest, and people live from …
Taklong Island
An island off the south coast of Guimaras, the main one in the Taklong and Tandog Group of Islands Natural Park. President Corazon Aquino declared the island and the water around it a national marine reserve on 8 February 1990, …
Basiao Island
An island barangay of the city, three islets joined by karst and coastal limestone. It lies about three nautical miles off the south side of Catbalogan and faces Majaba Island to the northwest. Its beach is Aba-Aba Island Park, named …
Olango Island
An island 5 kilometres east of Mactan, known for its wildlife sanctuary. The sanctuary covers 920 hectares of tidal flat at the centre of the island group and holds the largest concentration of migratory birds recorded in the Philippines. The …
Sicogon Island
A resort island 9.95 kilometres off the northeast coast of Panay, under the town of Carles. It covers 11.6 square kilometres and holds three barangays, and 4,275 people lived there at the 2020 census. A joint company of Ayala Land …
Lakawon
A white sand island resort about three kilometres off the coast of Barangay Cadiz Viejo. It is popular with local visitors. The island covers 13 hectares, is shaped like a banana, and lies 48 kilometres north of Bacolod. The name …
Capitancillo Island
A small coral island off the coast of Bogo, protected as a marine sanctuary. It is uninhabited and about 600 hectares in size, 6.1 kilometres east of Barangay Odlot in the Camotes Sea. Divers come for three sites: Ormoc Shoal, …
Homonhon
The island where Ferdinand Magellan's expedition anchored on 16 March 1521, during the voyage around the world. Magellan set foot here, and the island counts as one of the early points of contact between East and West in the Pacific. …