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Thitu Island, also known as Pag-asa Island (Filipino: Pulo ng Pag-asa, lit. 'Island of Hope'); Đảo Thị Tứ (Vietnamese: Đảo Thị Tứ); Zhongye Dao (Chinese: 中业岛/中業島; pinyin: Zhōngyè Dǎo), having an area of 37.2 hectares (92 acres), it is the second largest of the naturally occurring [4] island in Spratly Islands.
On August 30, 2020, Smart Telecommunications repaired and upgraded its cell site for 4G/LTE services in Thitu Island (Pag-asa). [50] [51] In April 2021, the Department of Information and Communications Technology announced the installation of free Wi-Fi facilities at Pag-asa Intergrated School, Barangay Hall, and other sites on the Thitu Island ...
Taiping Island Republic of China: Taiping Island Airport: RCSP: 2007: 1,200 m (est.) Military use only. No refueling facilities. [1] Swallow Reef (Layang-Layang) Malaysia: Layang-Layang Airport: LAC: 1995: 1,367 m Dual-use concrete airport. Fiery Cross Reef People's Republic of China: Yongshu Airport: AG 4553: 2016: 3,300 m (est.) Dual-use ...
Patag Island is just 6 miles (9.7 km) from Lawak Island and Panata Island is just 8 miles (13 km) from Kota Island. Lawak and Kota are 7.93 and 6.45 hectares in area respectively. This situation enables the Philippines to guard the small islands effectively without having to build any structures, or to station soldiers permanently to the two ...
A later 1859 edition of the map named the Spratly Island as Storm Island. [52] The islands were sporadically visited throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries by mariners from different European powers (including Richard Spratly , after whom the island group derives its most recognisable English name, who visited the group in the 1840s in ...
Maligun Island, also known as Maliguin Island, is an inhabited island of about 150 metres (490 ft) in elevation. It is the northernmost inhabited island of the group and of the Cuyo Archipelago and located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northeastward of Alcisiras and 0.34 nautical miles (0.63 km; 0.39 mi) north of Quiniluban. [ 4 ]
The Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) is an area in the Northwestern Pacific where PAGASA, the Philippines' national meteorological agency, monitors weather occurrences. Significant weather disturbances, specifically tropical cyclones that enter or develop in the PAR, are given Philippine-specific names .
A map of the Philippines showing the island groups of Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands [1] [2] clustered into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited, [3] and more than 5,000 are yet to be officially named. [2]