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Calamian Islands, the Glossary

The Calamian Islands or the Calamianes is a group of islands in the province of Palawan, Philippines.^[1]

29 relations: Busuanga Island, Calauit Island, Chert, Coron Island, Culion, Empire of Japan, Geological formation, History of the Philippines (1898–1946), Kayangan Lake, Late Jurassic, Late Triassic, Leper colony, Limestone, List of sultans of Sulu, Ma-i, Mexican settlement in the Philippines, Mimaropa, Mindoro Strait, North Palawan Block, Pacific War, Palawan, Permian, Philippines, Presidio, Sandao, Sentinel-2, South China Sea, Spanish Empire, Sulu Sea.
Archipelagoes of Southeast Asia
Archipelagoes of the Philippines

Busuanga Island

Busuanga, is the largest island in the Calamian Group of islands in the province of Palawan in the Philippines.

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Calauit Island

Calauit Island is an island of the Calamian Archipelago, just off the north-western coast of Busuanga Island. Calamian Islands and Calauit Island are Philippines geography stubs.

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Chert

Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

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Coron Island

Coron is the third-largest island in the Calamian Islands in northern Palawan in the Philippines.

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Culion

Culion, officially the Municipality of Culion (Bayan ng Culion), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines.

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The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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History of the Philippines (1898–1946)

The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines on July 4, 1946.

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Kayangan Lake

Kayangan Lake is a brackish lake on Coron Island in the Philippines.

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Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

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Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch of the Triassic Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between Ma and Ma (million years ago).

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Leper colony

A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of sultans of Sulu

This is a list of sultans and later claimants of the former Sulu sultanate.

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Ma-i

Ma-i, or Maidh (also spelled Ma'I, Mai, Ma-yi or Mayi; Baybayin:; Hanunoo:; Hokkien; Mandarin), was an ancient sovereign state located in what is now the Philippines.

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Mexican settlement in the Philippines

Mexican settlement in the Philippines comprises a multilingual Filipino ethnic group composed of Philippine citizens with Mexican ancestry.

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Mimaropa

Mimaropa (officially stylized in all caps), officially the Southwestern Tagalog Region (Rehiyong Timog-Kanlurang Tagalog), is an administrative region in the Philippines.

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Mindoro Strait

The Mindoro Strait (Kipot ng Mindoro) is one of the straits connecting the South China Sea with the Sulu Sea in the Philippines. Calamian Islands and Mindoro Strait are Philippines geography stubs.

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North Palawan Block

North Palawan Block is a microcontinental block situated in the western Philippines and the southern tip of the Manila Trench.

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Pacific War

The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.

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Palawan

Palawan, officially the Province of Palawan (Probinsya i'ang Palawan; Lalawigan ng Palawan), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Calamian Islands and Philippines are Archipelagoes of Southeast Asia, Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean and Maritime Southeast Asia.

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Presidio

A presidio (jail, fortification) was a fortified base established by the Spanish Empire between the 16th and 18th centuries in areas under their control or influence.

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Sandao

Sandao (三嶋 in Chinese characters), also known as Sanyu (三嶼) and Sanshu (三洲), were a collection of a prehispanic Philippine polities recorded in Chinese annals as a nation occupying the islands of Jamayan 加麻延 (present-day Calamian), Balaoyou 巴姥酉 (present-day Palawan), and Pulihuan 蒲裏喚 (near present-day Manila).

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Sentinel-2

Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters.

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South China Sea

The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. Calamian Islands and South China Sea are Maritime Southeast Asia.

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Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.

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Sulu Sea

The Sulu Sea (Dagat Sulu; Tausug: Dagat sin Sūg; Laut Sulu) is a body of water in the southwestern area of the Philippines, separated from the South China Sea in the northwest by Palawan and from the Celebes Sea in the southeast by the Sulu Archipelago. Calamian Islands and Sulu Sea are Maritime Southeast Asia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamian_Islands

Also known as Calamian, Calamian Archipelago, Calamian Group, Calamian Group of Islands, Calamian Island, Calamianes, Calamianes Islands.