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词条 Tanguingui Island (Iloilo)
释义

  1. Location and geography

  2. Lighthouse

  3. See also

  4. References

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Tanguingui (variously Tanguingui Islet and historically Isla Tanguingui) is a small, uninhabited island in northeastern Iloilo, Philippines. It is a minor island politically administered by the municipality of Carles and one of the easternmost islands in the Islas de Gigantes archipelago. There is a lighthouse on the island.

Location and geography

Tanguingui is a small cay in the Visayan Sea. It is {{convert|60|mi|order=flip}} east of Panay Island and almost directly north of Bantayan Island. Flat and sandy, it is {{convert|23.5|mi|order=flip}} east-southeast of Gigantes Sur and is part of the Islas de Gigantes island group.[2]

Lighthouse

According to the Faros Españoles de Ultramar, Tanguingui was one of the 27 major lighthouses of the Philippines during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines.[3] In 1903, the US government built a {{convert|45|ft|m|adj=mid|-high}} lighthouse on Tanguingui.[4] The current lighthouse is a black steel structure {{convert|113|ft}} high.[5]

See also

  • List of islands in the Philippines
  • Lighthouses in the Philippines

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Sailing Directions (Enroute) Philippine Islands|url=http://www.pendragon2.50webs.com/cruising-guides/162-phillipines-2008.pdf|publisher=National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|accessdate=1 July 2014|page=94|format=PDF|year=2008}}
2. ^{{cite book|author1=U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Reuben Jacob Christman|title=United States Coast Pilot, Philippine Islands, Part 1|date=1919|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=197|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0clBAAAAIAAJ&dq=bayas+island+estancia&source=gbs_navlinks_s|accessdate=1 July 2014}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Spanish Lighthouses of the Philippines|url=http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/phl-esp.htm|accessdate=1 July 2014}}
4. ^{{cite news|title=Tanguingui Island—Light Established|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27650/page/1261/data.pdf|accessdate=1 July 2014|publisher=London Gazette|date=26 February 1904|page=1261|format=PDF}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Tanguingui Island Light|url=http://www.lighthousedigest.com/digest/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=4819|website=Lighthouse Explorer|accessdate=1 July 2014}}

2 : Islands of Iloilo|Uninhabited islands of the Philippines

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