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Mariveles is located around the Mariveles Bay, a large cove at the southern tip of the Bataan Peninsula. It adjacent to Manila Bay to the east, and the South China Sea to the west. Mariveles is 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Balanga and 164 kilometres (102 mi) from Manila via the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), Jose Abad Santos Avenue , and Roman ...
Mariveles Naval Port, the bay at Mariveles had an anti-submarine net to protect the ship there. (1941, 1945–1971) Net layers: USS Buckeye , USS Silverbell (AN-51) Mariveles Seaplane base , at the Mariveles port a seaplane ramp and base was built at 14°25′51″N 120°29′07″E / 14.430802°N 120.485315°E / 14.430802; 120.485315
Mount Mariveles is a massive stratovolcano topped with a 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) summit caldera which drains to the north. The highest peak, called Mariveles, has an elevation of 1,388 metres (4,554 ft) asl. Mounts Pantingan, Bataan, Tarak, and Vintana are the other peaks of the volcano-caldera complex, which has a base diameter of 22 kilometres ...
Map of Corregidor Island in 1941 USS Canopus (AS-9) submarine tender in 1932 with S-37 ; S-40 ; S-36 ; S-38 ; S-41 ; S-39 at Cavite Bataan Death March that started at US Navy port at Mariveles on Bataan Peninsula on April 10, 1942, with US Army, Navy, Marines, Naval Hospital staff and Filipino Troops.
Mariveles Reef (Malay: Terumbu Mantanani; Filipino: Bahura ng Mariveles; Vietnamese: đá Kỳ Vân; Mandarin Chinese: 南海礁; pinyin: Nánhǎi Jiāo), is located in the SW of Dangerous Ground in the Spratly Islands. [1]
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Mariveles, in the province of Bataan, is an anchorage just inside the northern entrance, and Sangley Point is the former location of Cavite Naval Base. On either side of the bay are volcanic peaks topped with tropical foliage. 40 kilometers (25 mi) to the north is the Bataan Peninsula and to the south is the province of Cavite.
The island also had 13 miles of electric railway, an unusual feature in US forts. [6] Fort Drum on El Fraile Island, completed in 1914, was the second-most powerful fort in Manila Bay and the most unusual. The island was partway between Corregidor and the Cavite province shore south of that island. El Fraile was razed to the waterline and a ...