Tanguingui Island (Iloilo)

Tanguingui
Tanguingui

Location within the Philippines

Geography
Coordinates 11°29′16″N 123°43′25″E / 11.48778°N 123.72361°E / 11.48778; 123.72361Coordinates: 11°29′16″N 123°43′25″E / 11.48778°N 123.72361°E / 11.48778; 123.72361
Archipelago Islas de Gigantes
Adjacent bodies of water Visayan Sea
Highest elevation 6.7 m (22 ft)[1]
Administration
Region Western Visayas
Province Iloilo
Municipality Carles
Demographics
Population uninhabited

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 97 kilometres (60 mi) east of Panay Island and almost directly north of Bantayan Island. Flat and sandy, it is 37.8 kilometres (23.5 mi) 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 45-foot-high (14 m) lighthouse on Tanguingui.[4] The current lighthouse is a black steel structure 113 feet (34 m) high.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sailing Directions (Enroute) Philippine Islands" (PDF). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2008. p. 94. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  2. ↑ U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Reuben Jacob Christman (1919). United States Coast Pilot, Philippine Islands, Part 1. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 197. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Spanish Lighthouses of the Philippines". Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Tanguingui Island—Light Established" (PDF). London Gazette. 26 February 1904. p. 1261. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Tanguingui Island Light". Lighthouse Explorer. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
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