| Simplified Chinese | 南沙群岛 | [show]Transcriptions | | Vietnamese name | Quốc ngữ | Quần Đảo Trường Sa | Hán tự | 群島長沙 | Malay name | Malay | Kepulauan Spratly | Filipino name | Tagalog | Kapuluan ng Kalayaan | The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 750 reefs‚[2] islets‚ atolls‚ cays andislands in the South China Sea. The archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippinesand Malaysia (Sabah)‚ about one third of the way from there to southern Vietnam. They contain less
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with an exciting culture and economy.Even though in fiji the Melanesians and the Polynesian mixed to create a highly developed society long before the arrival of the europeans. Fiji is an archipelago which is a group of islands surrounded by water‚ the main is land of fiji is VitiLevu. The population of the archipelago of Fiji is quite small it is 901‚548.Fiji is an amazing place where many people travel to for vacation‚ and it has a very big population. The population of Fiji is quite small‚ and fiji
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The Philippines is an archipelago of 7‚107 islands in the South China Sea located between Taiwan to the north and Borneo to the south. Just 2‚000 of its islands are inhabited and only 500 are larger than a kilometer square. The nine largest islands of Luzon‚ Mindanao‚ Palawan‚ Panay‚ Mindoro‚ Samar‚ Negros‚ Leyte and Cebu make up 90% of the nation’s land area. The Philippines is mountainous in nature. The highest mountain is Mt. Apo‚ which is located in Mindanao. The second largest is Mt.Pulog in
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and foreign trades with China and Japan were fostered. Communication and transportation were improved. Our country during the Spanish reign was a crown colony of Spain‚ in the sense that it belonged to the Spanish crown. From 1565 to 1821‚ our archipelago was governed by the Viceroy of Mexico in the name of the Spanish king. All
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Andres Island The history of the Archipelago and some brief information about the Islands The San Andrés Caribbean Island is a coral island located amid the Colombian archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. Primarily constituted by tourism San Andrés economy used to depend on Fishing and some weak agricultural activities. With the introduction of the Air transport on the island in 1954 the Colombian government decided to invest in the tourism making the archipelago a duty-free zone. This resulted in
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Biodiversity Conservation Priority-setting Program (PBCPP) described these 165 endemic mammal species as endangered or critically endangered. There are also 332 species of reptiles and amphibians living in the country‚ 215 of them endemic to the archipelago. It is said that less than 14 of the 114 total species of snakes in the country are poisonous. Several species of frogs and other reptiles remain to be documented. Unfortunately‚ several species were believed to have vanished without being studied
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PHILIPPINES COULD NOT DO IT AS THE INVADERS ARE GIANTS THE PHILIPPINES AND THE ARCHIPELAGIC DOCTRINE Archipelago is defined as a sea or part of a sea studded with islands‚ often synonymous with island groups‚ or as a large group of islands in an extensive body of water‚ such as sea. (De Leon‚ 1991) In various conferences of the United Nations on the Law of the Sea‚ the Philippines and other archipelago states proposed that an archipelagic state composed of groups of islands forming a state is a single
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(National Geographic Society‚ 2005). According to the Migrations Expert (2012)‚ immigration is assumed to have occurred first in Australia over 50‚000 years ago when the ancestors of Indigenous Australians arrived through the islands of the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea. Furthermore‚ Department
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Philippine Prehistory - The First Inhabitants - 40‚000 BP The Philippines is an archipelago of 7‚107 islands in the South China Sea situated between Taiwan to the north and Borneo to the south. Just 2‚000 of its islands are inhabited and only 500 are larger than a kilometre square. The nine largest islands of Luzon‚ Mindanao‚ Palawan‚ Panay‚ Mindoro‚ Samar‚ Negros‚ Leyte and Cebu make up 90% of the nation’s land area. Over the past two million years‚ the earth has undergone twenty cycles of glaciation
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