Sibuyan lake
| Sibuyan lake | ||
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| Connects waters | Tablas Street | |
| with water | Jintotolo Canal , Isla Verde Street | |
| Separates land mass | Luzon | |
| of land mass | Panay , Mindoro | |
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| Geographical location | 12 ° 50 '0 " N , 122 ° 42' 0" E | |
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| Islands | Burias , Tablas , Romblon , Sibuyan | |
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The Sibuyan Sea is centrally located between the Philippine Islands in the district Mimaropa located straits . It is sometimes also abbreviated to Lake Sibu .
geography
The Sibuyan Sea is bounded to the north and east by the island of Luzon , to the south by the island of Panay and to the west by the island of Mindoro . Within the Sibuyan Sea, in addition to the island of Burias, are the Romblonen , a group of islands of volcanic origin, which includes Tablas and Romblon as well as the eponymous island of Sibuyan .
In the east, the Sibuyan Sea merges into the Visayas Sea in the Jintotolo Canal , in the west over the Tablas Strait into the Sulu Sea , and the Caluya Islands lie on the border with the Sulu Sea . In the northeast of the Sibuyan Sea lies the Gulf of Ragay , which is separated from the Bay of Tayabas in the north by the Bondoc Peninsula . Its easternmost branch forms the bay of Sorsogon , in the Bicol region . The Sibuyan Sea is connected to the South China Sea via the Isla Verde Strait , in the northwest .
history
In the waters of the Sibuyan Sea, on July 28, 1646, the second of the five naval battles of La Naval de Manila took place, which went down in the history of the Philippines as the victory over the Netherlands.
In 1944 the battle of the Sibuyan Sea (part of the sea and air battle in the Gulf of Leyte ) between the Americans and the Japanese took place here. In the course of the sea battle, one of the largest battleships ever built , the Japanese Musashi , sank .
On June 22, 2008, the Princess of the Stars ferry sank off Sibuyan Island during Typhoon Fengshen . The ship was en route from Manila to Cebu City and killed over 800 passengers.
Web links
- Information from the Philippine authorities on the Romblonen Archipelago ( Memento from 7 July 2008 in the Internet Archive )
