Kabo Island, Philippines

For the island in the Lesser Sundas of Indonesia, see Kabo Island, Indonesia.

Kabo (Kabusgan) Island

Kabo (Kabusgan) Island

Location within the Philippines

Geography
Coordinates| 9°46′57″N 125°33′4″E﻿ / ﻿9.78250°N 125.55111°E﻿ / 9.78250; 125.55111
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 a simple livelihood to caretakers where they yield fruits of the island that 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.[citation needed]

## Geography

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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 shoreside 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

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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.

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