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	Luzon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Luzon as an island group includes the island of Luzon itself, plus the Batanes and Babuyan groups of islands to the north, and the main and outlying islands of Catanduanes, Marinduque, Masbate, Romblon, and Mindoro in the south.
		To the west of Luzon island is the South China Sea (Luzon Sea in Philippine territorial waters), to the east is the Philippine Sea, and to the north is Luzon Strait containing Babuyan Channel and Balintang Channel.
		The southeastern portion of Luzon is dominated by the Bicol Peninsula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luzon (1700 words)

	Wikinfo \| Luzon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Luzon refers to the largest and most important island in the Philippines and to one of the three island groups in the country, with Visayas and Mindanao being the other two.
		To the west of Luzon island is the South China Sea, to the east is the Philippine Sea, and to the north is Luzon Strait.
		The island group of Luzon encompasses Luzon island itself, plus the Batanes and Babuyan groups of islands to the north, and the islands of Catanduanes, Marinduque, Masbate, Romblon, Mindoro, and Palawan in the south.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Luzon (1423 words)

	Strait
		A strait is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses.
		Straits usually lie on important shipping routes, and many wars have been fought for control of these straits.
		That is, while straits lie between two land masses and connects two larger bodies of water, isthmuses lie between two bodies of water and connects two larger land masses.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Strait.html (513 words)

	Luzon -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The strait is a series of channels, dotted with islands in its southern reaches—i.e., the Batan and Babuyan island groups.
		Formerly the capital of the province, it is the commercial centre for the eastern portion of Luzon's central plain, which is heavily farmed in rice.
		The population of the Philippines is unevenly distributed, with major concentrations on the Central Plain and the Ilocos coast of Luzon, and on the Visayan islands of Cebu, Negros, Panay, and Bohol.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049466?tocId=9049466 (679 words)

	Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Philippines is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea, on the south by the Sulu and Celebes seas, on the west by the South China Sea, and on the north by Luzon Strait.
		Luzon and Mindanao are the two largest islands, anchoring the archipelago in the north and south.
		The longest river of the republic is the Cagayan, in north central Luzon.
	www.philippineembassy-usa.org /about/geography.htm (1831 words)

	Babuyan Islands - Britannica Concise
		Luzon Strait - Passage between northern Luzon, Philippines, and southern Taiwan.
		The Babuyan Islands lie in the Luzon Strait, south of the Batan Islands and Balintang Channel.
		Luzon Strait - strait extending for more than 200 miles (320 km) between the islands of Taiwan (north) and Luzon, Philippines (south).
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9356299 (481 words)

	The Thermohaline Structure and Circulation of South China Sea
		The seasonal variation is featured by a wide salty tongue southward stretching from the Luzon Strait to the SCS basin in the winter (Figure 5.10a) and a fresh tongue northward stretching from the southwest boundary near the Mekong River mouth to the SCS basin in the summer (Figure 5.10b).
		Besides, the isolines of 2 at all the depths near the Luzon Strait are almost parallel to the cross-section of the strait.
		A cross-basin current establishes in August from the north branch of that eddy to the Luzon Strait, and forms a weak cyclonic gyre in the northwest and an anticyclonic gyre in the southeast.
	www.ocean.washington.edu /people/grads/binbing/scs.html (7265 words)

	Ilocos Norte - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Ilocos Norte is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon.
		Its capital is Laoag City and is located at the northwest corner of Luzon island, bordering Cagayan and Apayao to the east, and Abra and Ilocos Sur to the south.
		Ilocos Norte faces the South China Sea to the west and the Luzon Strait to the north.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ilocos_Norte (286 words)

	Sun Bin: The Myth of the strategic location of the Taiwan Strait
		Indeed Taiwan Strait is of strategic important to China, as it connects Guangzhou/HK to Shanghai and beyond.
		I believe the strategic value lies in the fact that the Taiwan Straits are still on the continental shelf, while the waters off the east coast of Taiwan are deep ocean.
		It is not necessary for the PRC to declare war on Japan in a Straits War; the practical necessity of having to board all ships passing through not only the Straits, but even in your proposed sea lane East of Taiwan would result in disruptions to Japan's economy.
	sun-bin.blogspot.com /2005/10/myth-of-strategic-location-of-taiwan.html (4590 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Inflow and outflow in the Kuroshio, through the Taiwan Strait, and between the Sunda Shelf and the Java Sea are prescribed bimonthly.
		Second, inflow through the Luzon Strait from October to February transports the Kuroshio water in the top of 300 m of the water column westward along the continental slope south of China.
		In summer, eastward flow in the Luzon Strait transports surface water west of Luzon to the region east of Taiwan.
	www.elsevier.com /cdweb/journals/09670653/articles/42/5/096706539594069.abstract.en (170 words)

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		The occurrence of internal wave signatures is correlated with the phase of the spring-neap tidal cycle and with the time of the year which yields information on the stratification of the water column.
		In particular, the statistical analysis of internal wave signatures in the South China Sea reveals that in the deep ocean area between the Luzon Strait and Dongsha island the density of internal wave signatures is very low, but is very high west of Dongsha island.
		This is interpreted as a result of the interaction of internal solitary waves generated in the Luzon Strait with the shallow bottom topography around the Dongsha island.
	earth.esa.int /cgi-bin/confdr.pl?abstract=158 (189 words)

	Ship Technology - Luzon Strait Reefer
		The Luzon Strait, along with its sister ship the Lombok Strait, was delivered to the Dutch-based shipowners Seatrade Groningen BV at the China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSBC)'s Keelung shipyard in Taiwan.
		The Luzon Strait has an overall length of 167m and a length between perpendiculars of 1.7m.
		A principal characteristic of the Luzon Strait is therefore its side-access pallet/trolley/cage handling system.
	www.ship-technology.com /projects/luzon (632 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Fall of the Philippines [Chapter 6]
		Their destination was the Philippine Islands; two were to land on northern Luzon, and the third was headed for the tiny island of Batan about 150 miles to the north.
		The southern portion of Luzon is narrow and irregular in shape, trailing away in a southeasterly direction for 180 miles.
		General Wainwright, the North Luzon Force commander, first heard of the Aparri landing, this time estimated as a reinforced brigade of 3,000 men, while he was inspecting the beach defenses of the 11th and 21st Divisions at Lingayen Gulf.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/USA-P-PI-6.html (7697 words)

	Luzon Strait -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The province comprises a narrow coastal agricultural plain and the Ilocos (Malaya) Range paralleling the shore, which is bordered by the South China Sea (west) and the Luzon Strait (north).
		Luzon, the largest island, has an area of 40,420 square miles (104,690 square kilometers).
		The best known of Luzon's rivers, however, is the Pasig, one of the island's shortest rivers,...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049467?tocId=9049467&query=babuyan (870 words)

	EASTERN HEMISPHERE: Asia; Mediterranean Sea : The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps (Library of Congress)
		This map of the East Coast of Sumatra, the eastern portion of the Strait of Malacca, and the coast of Malaysia includes coastlines, islands, and soundings.
		This map of the South China Sea between Luzon and Paragoa, Philippines and the coast of Vietnam includes coastlines, coastal features, rhumb lines, and shoals; also shows part of an expeditionary route taken by a French vessel in 1759.
		This is an English map of islands between Taiwan (formerly Formosa) and the Philippines and includes a portion of the island of Luzon.
	www.loc.gov /rr/geogmap/luso/easthem.html (887 words)

	The Dolphin - News - 04/15/2004 - USS Snook (SS 279), 84 Men Lost April 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They were to patrol Luzon Strait, the south coast of China, and the east coast of Hainan, and to perform lifeguard duties if so directed by dispatch.
		Tigrone's inability to contact Snook may be explained by the fact that on April 10 Snook was directed to move eastward toward Luzon Strait, and on April 12 she was ordered to stand lifeguard duty for British carrier-based air strikes.
		Her seventh patrol was in the Luzon Strait area and the northern South China Sea.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=11315865&BRD=1659&PAG=461&dept_id=8103&rfi=6 (1152 words)

	The Philippines Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The islands are bordered by the Luzon Strait on the north, the Celebes Sea on the south, and the South China Sea on the west and the Pacific on the east.
		In the east, shallow west-dipping subduction of the Philippine Plate at the Philippine Trench produces a line of volcanoes from Balut in the south to Mayon in the north.
		Volcanoes in an east-west zone across central Luzon may be associated with a "leaky" transform fault that connects the two subduction zones.
	home.comcast.net /~garnal/vacation/interest.htm (1382 words)

	LINKS Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There are two straits of critical importance to the interaction of these marginal seas: the Taiwan Strait and the Tsushima Strait.
		The Taiwan Strait allows transport of water on the continental shelf from the South China Sea to the East China Sea, and this water mass is then mixed into the Yellow and East China Seas.
		The strait also is presently of importance to the ONR Japan/East Sea DRI, which is part of the larger international CREAMS II project, designed to provide an intensive study of the Japan/East Sea dynamics.
	www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil /links/background.html (844 words)

	os42b in wp98
		The Luzon Strait, being over 350 km wide and a sill depth about 2600 m, forms the only major deep passage between the SCS and Pacific Ocean.
		Indirect evidence of a branch of the Kuroshio penetrating through the Luzon Strait into the SCS in the winter time (northeast monsoon season) were reported and widely used in regional models, but no direct current measurements have ever been taken until recently.
		However, an area of eddy generation is observed in the southwestern Luzon Strait in the lee of the islands that extend north of Luzon.
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=wp98&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/wp98/wp98&maxhits=200&="OS42B" (2873 words)

	Geography
		China and Taiwan lie to the north, Vietnam, Singapore, and Malaysia to the west, Indonesia to the south, and, 5000 miles to the east, Hawaii.
		Manila, the capital city, lies in Luzon and is the heart of a larger urban area called Metro Manila.
		Mt. Pinatubo, on the island of Luzon, erupted in June 1991 for the first time in 460 years.
	www.send.org /philippines/geography.htm (304 words)

	Inter Research » MEPS » v191 » p43-51
		Remote sensing observations of winter phytoplankton blooms southwest of the Luzon Strait in the South China Sea
		ABSTRACT: The Luzon Strait is a channel between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea.
		Even so, high concentrations of pigment were detected 100 km southwest of the Strait through analysis of historical Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) data that the Nimbus-7 satellite collected during the winters of 1979 to 1986.
	www.int-res.com /abstracts/meps/v191/p43-51 (342 words)

	IUGG 2003 Scientific Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It contains a broad shallow shelf on the south, extending along the Vietnamese-Chinese coast to the Taiwan Strait on the north, a deep basin in the center, and a dangerous ground near Nansha with numerous reef islands over the southeast.
		The Luzon Strait is the principal passage through which the Pacificwater enters the SCS; therefore the mass transport through the Luzon Strait is critical in determining the characteristics of SCS waters.
		The SCS circulation and thermohaine structure are under influence of the monsoon winds, surface fluxes, and lateral transport especially the Kuroshio intrusion.
	www.olympus.net /IAPSO/abstracts03/P02/02/016834-1.html (231 words)

	luzon and mindanao+major cities, luzon and mindanao, and my capital is manil, luzon baguio, luzon balacan map\| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		of Bataan on the island of Luzon and to the island-fortress of Corregidor.
		Luzon Strait, as with the sister vessel Lombok Strait, has a Hyundai-MAN...
		The brutal battles in Luzon in the spring and summer of 1945 are lost to...
	www.philippines.bankbudget.com /pinoy/indexL-page15.html (1159 words)

	Taiwan Strait or Taiwan Straits
		But the Taiwan Strait is just one strait, one body of water between Taiwan and China, and all maps call it "the Taiwan Strait." Other famous straits in the world include the Stait of Gilbraltor and the Bering Strait, among over 100 others.
		is flanked by the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Taiwan Straits to the...
		Most dictionaries in print and online show "strait" to be a singular word, except when used in the plural for more than one strait.
	taiwanstrait.blogspot.com /2005/02/its-called-taiwan-strait-folks-not.html (2658 words)

	Imperial Diplomacy by Michael David Roberts
		However, a Fleet may not move from one Sea Zone to another on the opposite side of the Large Island Chain.
		A Fleet may move from Luzon to Luzon Strait.
		A Fleet may not move from Bismark Sea to Luzon Strait.
	www.variantbank.org /results/rules/i/imperial2.htm (1383 words)

	DANIEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During the nineteen-year period in the area directly surrounding the Luzon Strait (18°N-22°N and 121°E-125°E), only 4 out of approximately 200 buoys (2%) actually entered into the South China Sea from the North Pacific, all of which occurred in the winter season.
		It is clear from the data plots for the period studied that eddies are least likely to enter into the South China Sea through the Luzon Strait during the summer due to Ekman transport of the summer monsoon.
		From the analysis of SSH however, it seems feasible that a large eddy could break off into a smaller eddy into the South China Sea but this cannot be fully supported by buoy drift data.
	www.clarkson.edu /projects/reushen/reu_china/Qingdao2002/People/DANIEL.htm (389 words)

	Are Strongly Sheared Baroclinic Currents Suorces for Internal Solitons?
		They are (1) the Yucatan Strait, where the headwaters of the Gulf Stream flow northward between Cuba and Mexico, and (2) the Luzon Strait between Taiwan and Luzon, where the Kuroshio is also north-flowing.
		Figure 1, of the Yucatan Strait, was provided by D. Sheres, and Fig.
		While the barotropic tide (which is the usual causative agent) in the Caribbean is not as strong as that in the Western Pacific, and the geographical tidal exposure of the Yucatan Peninsula is not as great as the islands in the Luzon Strait, the intensities and dimensions of the surface signatures are similar.
	www.whoi.edu /science/AOPE/ISW98workshop/text/apel/apel.htm (1194 words)

	Palaui Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An area of intertidal mudfiats and sand flats with offshore coral reefs around a small island off the northern tip of Luzon.
		The island is 10 km long by up to 4.5 km wide, and has a maximum elevation of 307m.
		The island provides the first significant area of mudflats for shorebirds crossing the Bashi Channel and Luzon Strait from Taiwan.
	www.arcbc.org.ph /wetlands/philippines/phl_palaui.htm (111 words)

	Philippines A Visual Journey: Coasts and Islands of North-West Luzon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The last of these lie in the Luzon Strait that separates the Philippines from Taiwan, and tough remote and often difficult to reach, are known for their friendly people, the Ivatans, as well as the landscape’s great beauty, with sheer cliffs alternating with wide, rocky beaches.
		The coastal area is intensely agricultural, growing mainly rice, corn (maize) and tobacco.
		South of the city is a well-developed beach area, the sands lined with a number of pleasant resorts, while to the north is an enormous stretch of sand that remains almost untouched by development.
	www.filipinoheritage.com /travel/regions/coast_islands_north-west-luzon.htm (271 words)

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