An island of reefs, small points and white sand beaches in the Philippine Sea, known as the surfing capital of the Philippines. It covers about 437 square kilometres and holds eight municipalities, among them Dapa, Del Carmen and General Luna. …
A group of islands in Lingayen Gulf off the coast of Barangay Lucap: 124 of them at low tide, and 123 when the tide is in. It was the first national park declared in the country and it covers 16.76 …
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 …
An island fort at the entrance of Manila Bay, 48 kilometres west of Manila. Coastal artillery batteries guarded the bay from here, and the island, fortified as Fort Mills, was the largest of four island forts that closed the entrance, …
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 …
An uninhabited sandbar of white sand, 1.4 kilometres off the northern shore of Mambajao. It is roughly horseshoe shaped, but the tides keep changing its size and its form. There are no trees and no shelter of any kind on …
A short ferry across the gulf for beaches, a bat cave and resorts. The island is a city in its own right and part of Metro Davao, and it lies immediately off the Davao City coast in Davao Gulf.
A small island about 2 kilometres south-southeast of General Luna, shaped like a tear drop. It lies in the Philippine Sea, 780 kilometres southeast of Manila. It is a common stop for tourists on island-hopping boat trips.
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 …
The province's main island, Basilan Island, ranks as the largest and northernmost of the major islands of the Sulu Archipelago. It lies just off the southern coast of the Zamboanga Peninsula. Three main ethnic groups live on the island: the …
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, …
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 …
An island in the town of Siasi, in the chain of islands between Mindanao and Borneo. Women here weave colourful mats with intricate designs, and the island is known for them. Most residents live from fishing. The island is small …
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 …
The largest of the seven islands in the Lubang Group, off the northwest tip of Mindoro and 117 kilometres southwest of Manila. The group sits on its own, away from any larger landmass, which makes its wildlife both unusual and …
Two islands in Illana Bay that share one name, told apart as Dako (big) and Gamay (small). Dao Dao Dako covers about a hectare and lies 7 to 10 minutes by motorboat from the city seaport. It has artificial coral …
A volcanic island off the southern tip of the province, in the municipality of Sarangani. Mount Balut stands at its centre, a fumarolic volcano with no eruption in the record, though the island is still counted as potentially active. The …
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 …
A Waray-speaking island at the north end of Surigao Strait, where the strait meets Leyte Gulf. It lies northwest of Dinagat Island and belongs to the municipality of Loreto. With the smaller Little Gibusong next to it, the island makes …
A small sandy island in the Cuyo Islands, 2.5 kilometres long and 500 metres across at its widest, set in the middle of a coral reef of 7 square kilometres. The whole island is private, owned by Seven Seas Resorts …
Steep cliffs and large rock formations above beaches of white sand and coral, on a small island about 3.8 kilometres off the Zambales coast. The island is 1.9 kilometres long and 0.4 kilometres wide at its widest point, and it …
An island about eight kilometres long, one of the two main islands of the Calaguas group. Its draw is Mahabang Buhangin, a long white sand beach, and the name means "long beach". Backpackers and campers from Manila have made the …
The southernmost island municipality of Batanes, known for the stone-house villages of Savidug and Chavayan and for the Morong arch on its shore. Steep mountains and deep canyons drop to short white sand beaches, and the island also has a …
A low-lying island in the Sulu Sea with white coral-sand beaches, known locally as Pulo Baliudyong. It measures more than 500 metres across at its widest point and sits on an oval reef about 1.6 kilometres long. The island lies …
Off the coast of the municipality of Sarangani lies an island named Sarangani Island, within Davao Occidental province.
A small island in the Sulu Archipelago, off Sapa-Sapa, with what counts as the longest sandbar in the Philippines: the bar runs 3,128.37 metres. The island itself covers only 0.1 square kilometres and sits inside Basibuli Shoal. The beach is …
A small island in the Visayan Sea ringed by white sand beaches, with three sandbars. It covers about 0.03 square kilometres, and the 833 people who live on it mostly depend on fishing. The island lies 8 kilometres southwest of …
Off the coast of Isabela City lies Malamawi Island, in the province of Basilan.
An island barangay of Dapitan with white sand beaches and coral reefs, kept as a marine sanctuary. The island has no water source, so carry your own. Few people live there, and most of them sell fish to visitors.
An island in Ragay Gulf, off the southeast coast of the Bondoc Peninsula, with white sand beaches, mangrove forest and coral reefs. Birdlife here is rich. The island and the water around it form the Alibijaban Protected Landscape and Seascape, …