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	Samar Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samar is an island in the Visayas, which is in the central Philippines.
		Samar lies southeast of the Bicol Peninsula on Luzon, the country's largest island; the San Bernardino Strait separates the two.
		To the south of Samar is the Leyte Gulf, the site of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the most decisive naval battles during the Second World War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samar_(island) (200 words)

	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.
		To the south of the bay is the island of Marinduque.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luzon (1999 words)

	Samar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its capital is Catbalogan and covers the western portion of Samar island as well as several islands in the Samar Sea located to the west of the mainland.Calbayog City, the lone city of Samar Island is located in the province of Samar.
		Bordering the province to the north is Northern Samar and to the east is Eastern Samar.
		Samar is connected to Leyte via the San Juanico Bridge, which spans the San Juanico Strait, the narrowest strait in the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samar_province (229 words)

	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The province of Samar, occupying the southwestern part of Samar Island, is a rugged land with bountiful waters on the west and low mountain ranges on the east.
		It is bounded on the north by Northern Samar, on the east by Eastern Samar, on the west by the Samar Sea, and on the south by the Leyte Gulf.
		Numerous streams in the island have cut sharp valleys on the surface of this plateau and the overall landscape is hilly and rugged.
	www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=description&province=46 (348 words)

	Samar - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		It is separated on the north-west from the island of Luzon by San...
		Leyte, island in the eastern Philippines, adjacent to Samar Island.
		Visayan Islands, island group in central Philippines, one of the four main insular groups of the Philippines, lying between the islands of Mindanao...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Samar.html (100 words)

	Samar Island
		Samar island is the third largest island of the Philippine archipelago.
		As with Leyte, the name Samar is interchangeably used to refer both to the island and one of its three provinces, the other two being Northern and Eastern Samar.
		The island is noted for being the home of the Philippine Eagle, one of the most rare and largest raptor in the world discovered in the northern part of the island by John Whitecomb in the early 1900's.
	members.tripod.com /tinikling/samar2.htm (182 words)

	Eastern Samar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The province of Eastern Samar lies on the eastern portion of Samar island.
		Surrounded by Northern Samar on the north, Philippine Sea on the east, Samar on the west and Leyte Gulf on the south.
		The eastern and northern part of Samar was called Ibabao and the town of Borongan became the center of trade and military shaft of the Spaniards in the Pacific region.
	www.globalpinoy.com /travel/province/esamar.htm (552 words)

	Western Samar
		To the north, it is bounded by the province of Northern Samar; on the east by the province of Eastern Samar; to the west by the Samar Sea and to the south by the Leyte Gulf.
		Samar is connected with the province of Leyte thru Marcos Bridge on the southwest across the San Juanico strait.
		It has the most reliable power in Samar and Leyte since it is the only electric cooperative within the region and of the whole Philippines that has a standby generating unit with a total capacity of 2.5 MW.
	darfu8.tripod.com /rp_westernsamar.htm (1471 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna of Samar Island 4.
		Samar island is the type locality of the Philippine Eagle since the species became known to science and was described in 1896 from a single specimen collected by John Whitehead in Samar.
		A synopsis of mammalian fauna of the Philippine Island.
	www.gefweb.org /COUNCIL/GEF_C14/Philippines/part3.doc (5108 words)

	GlobalPinoy, Travel - Western Samar
		The third largest island in the Philippines and the largest among the three Samar provinces, Western Samar or Samar province lies in the southwestern part of Samar Island.
		Surrounded by Northern Samar on the north, Eastern Samar on the east, Samar Sea on the west and Leyte Gulf on the south.
		Samar is famous for their dried fish and other marine products.
	www.globalpinoy.com /travel/province/wsamar.php (567 words)

	Official Website of Samar Provincial Council- FORTIS VOLUNTAS FRATERNITAS
		Compared to the two other provinces in the island, Samar is perhaps the most developed in terms of infrastructure and industry.
		Samar however has the worst stretch of main road in the entire region with its perennially-under-construction, poorly-cemented national highway linking the province to the rest of the country.
		Samar province has the largest population and growth rate of the three provinces in the island.
	www.geocities.com /samartriskelions (429 words)

	PAMAYANAN - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The islands of Samar and Leyte in the eastern Visayas are two of the most biologically rich islands in the Philippines.
		Samar Island probably has the largest tract of lowland forest in the Visayas.
		It was in Samar that this eagle was first discovered in 1896, yet it was believed to have disappeared from Samar's forests until its rediscovery in January 1998.
	www.bwf.org /bk/pamayanan/pr-041399.html (999 words)

	Eastern Samar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Since that account, historians have described this part of Samar Island as the “eastern gateway to the Philippines” the coast of this small province faces the Pacific Ocean and much of the land is rugged with the vast parts forested.
		The Province of Eastern Samar was created by Republic Act No. 4221 which was approved by Congress on June 19, 1965 dividing the whole island of Samar into three independent provinces namely: Northern Samar, Western Samar (subsequently renamed Samar) and Eastern Samar.
		The eastern part of the island was known as Ibabao and distinct from Samar which was the name of the western part.
	www.evis.net.ph /infocenter/attractions/Eastern-samar.htm (549 words)

	Seacology - Philippines Samar Island project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Samar Island, the third largest island in the Philippine archipelago, contains some of the Philippines' largest extant, unfragmented tracts of lowland rainforest.
		Seacology has underwritten an all-volunteer surgical mission to Samar by the Society of Philippine Surgeons in America, which took place in December 2001, as a means of thanking Samar islanders for setting aside such a large protected area for the benefit of the environment.
		A total of 72 major surgeries and 50 consultations were performed as a way of thanking Samar Islanders for setting aside a large area of their island for the Samar Island Natural Park.
	www.seacology.org /projects/individualprojects/PHILIPPINES_samar2000.htm (228 words)

	Diocese of Borongan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In Catubig, or Palapag on the northern coast of the island of Samar.
		On June 19, 1965, the island of Samar was politically divided and the province of Eastern Samar was born.
		The province is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by Northern Samar, on the west by Western Samar, and on the south by Leyte Gulf.
	www.cbcponline.net /borongan (891 words)

	Samar Island Biodiversity Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Samar Island -- the third largest island in the Philippine archipelago -- contains some of the country's largest extant, unfragmented tracts of lowland rainforest.
		The island belongs to the Eastern Visayas bio-geographic area, one of 15 such areas in the Philippines, and is listed as one of 18 centers of plant diversity and 9 endemic bird areas in the country.
		The Samar Island Biodiversity Project (SIBP) aims to protect a representative sample of the biodiversity of the Philippine archipelago by expanding conservation coverage in the Eastern Visayas bio-geographic zone.
	www.pawb.gov.ph /programs/sibp.htm (745 words)

	The Diocese of Calbayog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Samar was once one island province comprising one political unit, the whole island being the third largest in the archipelago.
		The Island of Samar is bounded on the north by San Bernardino Strait, on the west by the Samar Sea and San Juanico Strait, on the south by Leyte Gulf, and on the east by the Pacific Ocean.
		On April 10, 1910, Pope Pius X separated the island provinces of Samar and Leyte form the Diocese of Cebu, and erected the Diocese of Calbayog comprising both island provinces.
	www.cbcponline.net /calbayog (498 words)

	Fight continues to save Samar's forest - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Then, on July 1, 2001, the Samar Island Biodiversity Project (SIBP) was launched by the DENR in the island, with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)-Global Environment Facility allocating $27 million for the eight-year project.
		The island, she said, also "has 197 bird species, of which 50 can be found only in the Philippines and categorized as highly threatened," including the Philippine Eagle.
		Maybe it was because of their knowledge of the island's rich natural resources that hundreds of Samarenos, coming from different parts of the islands, held a save-the-environment caravan on Aug. 8, 2003, that culminated in Catbalogan, Samar.
	news.inq7.net /regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=8725 (1117 words)

	Jungle Patrol - 9. The Bloody Island
		The island has an area in excess of 5,000 square miles, and at the time of which we write, there were not five miles of road on the island.
		The army maintained several stations on Samar, but the troopers were inactive and confined to station by the orders of the administration, who were still trying to avoid the necessity for martial law and the massed movements of regular troops.
		Therefore, Samar in 1904 was garrisoned with a mixed force of Scouts and Constabulary, the former being Federal and the latter Insular, and neither able to command the other.
	www.bakbakan.com /junglep/jp-9.html (5192 words)

	Rosita's Bakery Giporlos E. Samar
		Eastern Samar is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea which forms partof a greater body of water, the Pacific Ocean.
		Although the climate is characterized by rain and marked seasonal period of heavy precipitation at all months of the year, it shows distinct seasons: rainy from November to January with northeast monsoon as the prevailing wind and dry from July to September with its westerly winds locally called "habagat" as the prevailing wind.
		The 23 municipalities composing the province are Jipapad.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Beach/4155/rositabakery.html (801 words)

	INQ7.net, Philippines : 'Bequeath Samar forests as heritage site'
		Gonzales was coordinator of a project to preserve the ecological wealth of the Philippines' third largest island of Samar whose people are fighting to keep its forests from logging operations that once depleted its rich depository of endemic flora and fauna.
		Samar is one of the few places in the country where the people themselves-many of them highly dependent on the forests for a living-have abandoned their old way of life and moved toward conservation for the sake of the species that also make the island's forests their home.
		Samar is also home to the threatened Philippine Hawk Eagle and the Philippine Cockatoo, along with 194 other bird species, of which 50 are found only in the Philippines.
	www.ecologyasia.com /news-archives/2005/nov-05/inq7_051107_1.htm (994 words)

	08/14/01 -- Protecting biodiversity in the Philippines
		Samar Island is listed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as one of the top 200 endangered spaces in the world.
		Kaingin, or slash and burn farming, is the prevalent source of agriculture on the island.
		"This biodiversity conservation project in Samar island is a good opportunity for UNDP to help alleviate poverty in forest-edge communities and at the same time ease the pressures on and threats to natural habitats and resources that these same people depend on for their subsistence," said Ricarda Rieger, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative.
	forests.org /archive/asia/prbiinph.htm (504 words)

	Samar - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Interview: Dr. Sima Samar discusses her goals as the Afghan minister for Women's Affairs
		GMA's edict on protection of E. Samar forests lauded; Extensive damage to life and property on island noted.(Provincial News)
		Samar's story; Samar Hussein (left) was killed by a bomb that fell on dusty farmland miles outside Baghdad.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Samar.asp (253 words)

	Bulatlat - The Philippines's alternative weekly magazine
		SAMAR Island —An old man and his son pound palay (rice grains) on a lusong (huge wooden container); two half-naked men build a house made of wood; while an elderly woman, holding a large wooden basket at her back, gather fire wood for cooking.
		The island of Samar has been subject to intense counter-insurgency operations under the command of notorious military officer Maj. Gen.
		Samar Reps. Catalino Figueroa (second district) and Reynaldo Uy (first district) have attested in Congress to being harassed.
	www.bulatlat.com /news/5-29/5-29-samar1.htm (1392 words)

	Samar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The islands of Leyte, Samar and Biliran, in Eastern Visayas are some of the most spectacular, undisturbed tourist attractions in the nation.
		Eastern Samar is a popular destination for river trips and white water rafting, particularly around the towns of Borongoan and Guian.
		Samar island was a key stop over point for the Spanish galleons that piled the route between Manila and Acapulco in Mexico.
	www.bartssubic.com /samar.htm (485 words)

	Western Samar
		Dapdap, a barrio of Taragnan is on the western coast of Samar island, facing Maqueda Bay.
		The Jesuits did not build a stone church in Calbayog., Ceded to the Franciscans with the rest of western Samar in 1768, Calbayog was attended to by Franciscans who resided in the neighboring towns.
		By decree of Saint Pope Pius X the island provinces of Samar and Leyted were erected as the Diocese of Calbayog, separated from Cebu on April 10, 1910, Then in 1914 the Franciscans ceded parish administration to the secular clergy.
	www.admu.edu.ph /offices/mirlab/panublion/r8_westsamar.html (2076 words)

	Samar College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Five Years after its Golden Jubilee, Samar College as one of the pioneering private institutions of higher learning in the island of Samar, emerges renewed and revitalized to meet the needs and demands of the times.
		The discovery of cyberspace and the unprecedented speed and scope of information technology development has provided Samar College the very rare opportunity to share itself to all stakeholders, especially the alumni, to witness the rebirth and take part in the evolution of their alma mater.
		May the website be a venue for intellectual interaction and interchange among the school’s stakeholders, other institutions of higher learning, agencies, institutions or individual persons who share the vision, mission and goals of SC toward the progress of the Philippine society, particularly the island of Samar.
	scgs.edu-ph.com (248 words)

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