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Aloyon Island

Aloyon Island, also associated with the village name Aluyon (Aloyan, Aloyun), is a small low-lying island in Burdeos municipality, Quezon, Calabarzon, Philippines, at 14.88°N 121.98°E, elevation 3 m, near Icol, Cabalao, and San Rafael islands.

Babuyan Island

Babuyan Island: northernmost main island of the Babuyan Islands, Cagayan, Philippines; 73.53 km2 volcanic island with Babuyan Claro and Smith volcanoes, last erupting 1924, home of the Ibatan people.

Busuanga Island

Busuanga Island: largest island of the Calamian Group, northern Palawan, Philippines (~971 km²), split into Busuanga and Coron municipalities; non-volcanic continental-fragment geology, dry Dec–May climate, 1944 Coron Bay shipwrecks, and a dugong stronghold.

Calamian Islands

Calamian Islands (Calamianes), northernmost island group of Palawan Province, Philippines: Busuanga, Coron, Culion, Linapacan. Reefs hold 70% of Philippine coral and seagrass species; over ten MPAs; Tagbanwa ancestral waters; Coron tourism boom.

Capiyaan Island

Capiyaan Island (Kapiyaan Island) is a small islet in Surigao del Norte, Caraga, Philippines, at 10.1565°N 125.61222°E, elevation 13 m, near Cabiton-an, Maytubig, Dinagat Island, and Libjo, 10 km to the northwest.

Guimaras Island

Guimaras Island is an island province in Western Visayas, Philippines, between Panay and Negros in the Panay Gulf. Five municipalities, 604.57 sq km, province since 1992, famed for mangoes.

Mindoro

Mindoro, seventh largest island of the Philippines, divided since 1950 into Oriental and Occidental Mindoro provinces in MIMAROPA; home of the endemic tamaraw and Mangyan peoples, historically the Chinese trade partner "Mai".

Palawan Island

Palawan Island, the long main island of Palawan province, the westernmost Philippines province; a continental fragment of the Asian mainland, UNESCO biosphere reserve (1990), biodiversity hotspot with 1,768 provincial islands, two World Heritage Sites, and a 2025 50-year mining moratorium.

Panay

Panay: sixth-largest island of the Philippines, in the western Visayas, comprising Aklan, Antique, Capiz, and Iloilo provinces; about 11,692 km², ~3.5 million people (2000), Iloilo City its main urban center.

Tablas Island

Tablas Island, formerly Osigan, is the largest island of Romblon province, Philippines, in the Sibuyan Sea between Mindoro and Panay; 693.74 km², nine municipalities, renamed Tablas by Loarca in 1582.

Taitagan Island

Taitagan Island, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines (Cebuano and Filipino: Taitagan Island), a low 5-metre island in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao at 5.18°N, 120.05°E, near Languyan; distinct from a second Taitagan Islet in the Philippines.