Kabo Island, Philippines

Kabo (Kabusgan) Island
	Kabo (Kabusgan) Island Location within the Philippines
Geography
Coordinates	9°46′57″N 125°33′4″E
Adjacent to	Hinatuan Passage; Philippine Sea;
Length	1.2 km (0.75 mi)
Width	.5 km (0.31 mi)
Highest elevation	33.5 m (109.9 ft)
Administration
	Philippines
Region	Caraga
Province	Surigao del Norte

Kabo (Kabusgan) Island[1] is a small island off the coast of the main island of Mindanao; administratively it is in Barangay Day-asan Surigao City Surigao del Norte of the Caraga Region of the Mindanao island group of the Philippines. The island itself provides simple livelihood to caretakers where they yield fruits of the island were used for charcoal making and raw materials for copra in the region, not to mention the six spring waters that provide water to the island. The island is owned by the Calderon Family in Surigao.

Geography

Kabo (Kabusgan) Island lies 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) eastward across the bay from Surigao City. The island is irregular in shape elongated along a northeast–southwest line. It rises to an elevation of 33.5 metres (110 ft).[2] On the shore side the mangroves form a brackish intermediate zone with no clear shoreline. On the Hintuan Passage side, the shore is generally clear cut. There is a reef, the Kabo Reef, about a half kilometer north of the island that extends to the northeast and east of the island.[3] Load Island is immediately to the south.

Notes

Kabo Island (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Hydrographic Department (1950). Eastern Archipelago pilot: Comprising the Philippine Islands (with the exception of the western coasts of Luzon and Palawan), Sulu Sea, Sulu Archipelago and the north-east coast of Borneo (6th ed.). London: Hydrographic Department, Admiralty. p. 613. OCLC 192136746.
Christman, Reuben Jacob (1921). United States coast pilot: Philippine islands: Part 2. Palawan, Mindanao, and Sulu Archipelago. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. p. 233. OCLC 223267499.

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[1] Kabo Island (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

[2] Hydrographic Department (1950). Eastern Archipelago pilot: Comprising the Philippine Islands (with the exception of the western coasts of Luzon and Palawan), Sulu Sea, Sulu Archipelago and the north-east coast of Borneo (6th ed.). London: Hydrographic Department, Admiralty. p. 613. OCLC 192136746.

[3] Christman, Reuben Jacob (1921). United States coast pilot: Philippine islands: Part 2. Palawan, Mindanao, and Sulu Archipelago. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. p. 233. OCLC 223267499.