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	Sulu Archipelago - MSN Encarta
		Sulu Archipelago, group of volcanic and coral islands in the southwestern Philippines, between the Sulu and Celebes seas.
		The islands of the Sulu Archipelago comprise the Sulu and Tawitawi provinces.
		The provincial capital and chief seaport is Jolo (population, 1990, 53,055), on Jolo Island.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575689/Sulu_Archipelago.html (161 words)

	Sulu Archipelago - Encyclopedia.com
		The islands are heavily forested, but local farming is nonetheless carried on and meets the needs of the people.
		From Quanzhou to the Sulu zone and beyond: questions related to the early fourteenth century.
		The numerous islands of the Sulu archipelago and coastal stretches of Southeast...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-SuluArch.html (1321 words)

	SULU
		The Sulu Archipelago is between the Sulu and Celebes Sea in Mindanao.
		And lying outside the typhoon belt, it is blessed with a year-round bounty of harvests both from the land and the sea.
		In addition to all the crops of the islands, which are abaca, coconut and fruits like oranges, lanzones and jacks, other fruits that do not grow in the northern islands are harvested, such as the mangosteen and durian.
	www.bartssubic.com /barts/sulu.htm (1067 words)

	Sulu Archipelago rain forests - Encyclopedia of Earth
		The precursors of the Sulu Islands were an arc of submarine volcanoes that have existed for at least 25 million years.
		During the Pleistocene, the majority of the present Sulu Archipelago was one island, separated from Basilan-Mindanao to the north and greater Sibutu (and Borneo) to the south by deepwater channels of 205 m and 290 m depths, respectively.
		The islands of the Sulu Archipelago were delineated as a separate ecoregion, the Sulu Archipelago Rain Forests.
	www.eoearth.org /article/Sulu_Archipelago_rain_forests (1473 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Sulu Archipelago rain forests (IM0156)
		The precursors of the Sulu Islands were an arc of submarine volcanoes that have existed for at least 25 million years.
		During the Pleistocene, the majority of the present Sulu Archipelago was one island, separated from Basilan-Mindanao to the north and greater Sibutu (and Borneo) to the south by deepwater channels of 205 m and 290 m depths, respectively.
		The islands of the Sulu Archipelago were delineated as a separate ecoregion, the Sulu Archipelago Rain Forests [IM0156].
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0156_full.html (1408 words)

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		It is between the Sulu Sea on the north and the Celebes Sea on the South.
		And lying outside the typhoon belt, it is blessed with a year-round bounty of harvests both from the land and the sea.
		In addition to all the crops of the islands, which are abaca, coconut and fruits like oranges, lanzones and jacks, other fruits that do not grow in the northern islands are harvested, such as the mangosteen and durian.
	members.tripod.com /MindanaO/sulu.html (1081 words)

	Sulu Sea - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sulu Sea, arm of the Pacific Ocean, lying between the Philippine Islands on the north, east, and southeast; Borneo on the southwest; and Palawan...
		Sulu Archipelago, group of volcanic and coral islands in the southwestern Philippines, between the Sulu and Celebes seas.
		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...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Sulu_Sea.html (128 words)

	Sulu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its capital is Jolo and occupies the middle group of islands of the Sulu Archipelago, between Basilan and Tawi-Tawi.
		Sulu's area is 1,600.4 kilometers square, and is 15th of the largest islands of the Philippine Archipelago, in terms of the area.
		Sulu although a small island was regarded by the Spanish Conquistadors of the past as one of its strongest enemy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sulu (316 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philippine Islands
		The islands are washed by the China Sea on the north and the west, the Pacific Ocean on the east, and the Sea of Celebes on the south.
		The inhabitants of Luzon and adjacent islands are the Tagalogs, Pampangans, Bicols, Pangasinans, Ilocanos, Ibanags or Cagayanes, and Zambales.
		Thirty-one delegates are from the Visayan Islands, and forty-four from Luzon.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12010a.htm (7257 words)

	The Sulu Sea
		The southern border of the Sulu Sea is at the Sibutu-Basilan Ridge.
		Beneath the Sulu Sea is an oceanic ridge trending parallel to Palawan and the Sulu archipelago.
		Sulu abounds in timber resources, although fishing is the most important industry in which sea cucumbers, endangered sea turtles, fish and pearls are extensively gathered.
	www.tracc.org.my /Borneocoast/biogeography/SULU_SEA.html (253 words)

	The Provincial Profile of Sulu
		In 1903, Sulu became a district of the Moro Province and in 1914 became a province of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu.
		Sulu became part of an autonomous regional government in Western Mindanao in 1979 and in 1989, became one of four provinces which constituted the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
		Sulu’s terrain is a combination of mountains punctuated by valleys and stretches of undulating to rolling plains.
	www.geocities.com /lppsec/pp/sulu.htm (1410 words)

	Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The islands are commonly divided into three island groups: Luzon (Regions I to V, NCR and CAR), Visayas (VI to VIII), and Mindanao (IX to XIII and ARMM).
		Transversing the San Juanico Strait is the San Juanico Bridge, that connects the islands of Samar and Leyte.
		Roughly two-thirds reside on the island of Luzon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philippines (3853 words)

	Semporna Islands Project Projek Pulau - Pulau Semporna
		The natural island vegetation especially the abundance of figs that occur on Boheydulang and Bodgaya are thought to be important for supporting the current population of vertebrates.
		Sulu Hornbill, and Manatanani Scops-owl are two examples of about 20 species and subspecies that have not made it across to Sabah territory (Davison, 1998).
		The herpetofauna in the Semporna Islands is distinctly impoverished compared to the mainland, with fewer species and lower population density except for sea snakes.
	www.mcsuk.org /semporna/mplan/25.htm (1195 words)

	Sulu Tong Jin School (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sulu -Chinese relations revolved around a lucrative barter trade system of local products and Chinese goods, whick were loaded on Junks, or tung-yangs from the Middle Kingdom and unloaded on the beaches of Jolo and left there until claimed by their owners.
		The similarities in Sulu Chinese cultural refinements born of the early trade and the interaction of people of diverse backgrounds led to the ultimate enrichment of the national heritage.
		The museum was established in 1982 as a provincial museum (Sulu Provincial Museum and Library), containing historical and ethnological artifacts (notably in connection with the performing arts) from the South-Western Sulu islands group.
	www.waltokon.com /Jolo26.html (800 words)

	Mindanao & Sulu Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mindanao is one of the Philippines' richest islands.
		The main islands inhabited by the Samal are Siasi, Tawi-Tawi and Sibutu islands.
		Of all the inhabitants of the Sulu Islands, the Badjao are on the lowest rung of the social ladder.
	web.1asphost.com /filcom/13K-PhilBestPlace-Mindanao&Sulu.htm (2667 words)

	PHILLIPINES TSUNAMI - THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI OF AUGUST 16,1976 IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS - The Moro Gulf Tsunami - ...
		The tectonics of the Celebes Sea-Sulu Sea region, between the Philippine Islands and the southern Philippine trench on the northeast and Borneo on the southwest, are complex.
		The Cotabato Trench is a region of subduction that crosses the Celebes Sea and the Moro Gulf in Southern Mindanao.
		The survey along the eastern portion of the islands of Basilan and Jolo in the Sulu Island Group was somewhat hampered by logistical problems and an ongoing civil war.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /Tsunami1976Phillipines.html (2626 words)

	Islands Info Directory - Asia and Far East Islands Information
		On its West is the interior mountain range and on the East is the Sulu Sea.
		Menyawakan is one of the 27 “paradise islands” in the protected Karimunjawa Marine Park archipelago.
		This resort island was selected in 1999 to be the local host and dive advisor for the National Geographic TV documentary, “Marine Parks of Indonesia,” an expedition led by Francis Lee of Singapore.
	www.islandsinfo.com /asiafar.htm (1094 words)

	Asia Times
		The problem was, however, that the bandits merely consolidated their operations in nearby Jolo in the province of Sulu, a majority-Muslim-populated island where the group currently holds hostage three Indonesian seamen and four female Jehovah's Witnesses.
		Sulu Representative Hussein Amin said that the people of Sulu were excited about the arrival of the US troops.
		"For them," (the people of Sulu), Amin said, "it's their chance to avenge their forefathers who were victims of the Americans' abuses in the past." He was referring to the brutal subjugation of the people of Sulu at the beginning of the 1900s when the Americans had just begun their colonization of the Philippines.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EB26Ae05.html (2071 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Sulu Archipelago rain forests (IM0156) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On one end is the island of Borneo; on the other is the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
		Connecting the two is a string of smaller islands, the Sulu Archipelago, that stretches like stepping stones between the larger ones.
		Of the smaller islands, some have been degraded but others are fairly intact and shelter important populations of birds.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0156.html (378 words)

	Macdonald Center - Online Articles
		In the1900s, the Moro (Christian) population of the Philippines numbered 300,000, scattered throughout Mindanao and among smaller islands to the south and west of Mindanao known as the Sulu Archipelago.
		This is partly explained by Sulu’s relatively early Islamization, as well as by the fact that it has maintained closer contacts with other centers of Islam.
		The introduction of Islam in Mindanao and the Sulu islands of the Philippine archipelago was the result of many factors.
	macdonald.hartsem.edu /articles_oliveros.htm (3438 words)

	Davao Hotels Resorts - Discounts up to 75% on some hotels and resorts - Davao Areas: Davao City, Samal Island, etc.
		The Pearl Farm Beach Resort lies in a secluded cove on Samal Island off the coast of Davao City.
		This 11-hectare spread was once a pearl farm, where thousands of white-lipped oysters, transported from the Sulu Sea, were cultivated for their pink, white and gold pearls.
		In Davao, the contemporary fuses with the traditional as migrant settlers from all over the country co-exist in peace with a fairly large expatriate community and numerous ethnic tribes who continue to live as they did centuries ago...
	www.islandsaccommodations.com /hotels-resorts/davao (178 words)

	Cook Islands A-Z Visitors Guide - dancing, departure tax, dengue fever, dentist, dining, disabled facilities, diving, ...
		An ‘Island Night’ should be on all visitors’ list of things to do - vibrant, colourful, sensual - it’s hard to believe these dancers attend church on Sundays.
		The Cook Islands is still behind the rest of the world when it comes to facilities for the severely disabled.
		The legal age for drinking in the Cook Islands is 18, but somehow you get the feeling that this may not be heavily policed.
	www.cookislandsatoz.com /d.html (832 words)

	NOAA History - Stories and Tales of the Coast & Geodetic Survey - Philippine Tales/Surveying the Philippine Islands
		As the islands gradually became pacified, more and more surveys were undertaken to meet the demands of the military and the local commerce, which was beginning to spring up with the return of peace and orderly government.
		In one of the most severe typhoons which ever visited the Islands, the “Cantabria Typhoon,” of September, 1905, the Survey ship, Pathfinder, was caught at anchor in a small, partially protected bay on the east coast of Samar.
		As the survey of the Sulu Sea progressed, reef after reef was found to be non-existent, and much of the area that had been looked upon with suspicion proved to be clear water with depths of 1,000 to 2,000 fathoms.
	www.history.noaa.gov /stories_tales/lukensphil.html (2699 words)

	Fil-Am Assoc of Carson History Repeats Itself
		It is theorized that the early inhabitants of this area came from the region's neighboring Malayan states in the south, notably Borneo and the islands of northwestern Indonesia.
		We are primarily concerned with the Sulu Archipelago, or more specifically the Jolo group which includes the island of Jolo.
		Slaves were taken as captives or received as tributes, and were assimilated into the bulk of the population of Sulu.
	www.fil-am-carsoncity.org /HistoryRepeats.htm (1793 words)

	AboutPhilippinesText (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In1380 the Arab-taught Makdum arrived in the Sulu Islands in the south and began the 'Propagation of Islam'.
		Third is the tightly packed island group known as the Visayas, which fills the space between Luzon and Mindanao.
		The typhoon in the Pacific region are predominantly in the Marshall Islands and Caroline Islands.
	web.1asphost.com /filcom/07d-AboutPhilippinesText.htm (2654 words)

	Pirates put law to the sword in land of neglect
		It is here, among the coral atolls of the Sulu Sea, that the rule of law ends and the rule of the pirates, and their guns, begins.
		And it is here that 21 hostages, 10 of them foreign tourists, have been huddling in a rank bamboo hut on the island of Jolo, part of the Sulu group, captives of heavily armed Muslim extremists and besieged by troops of the Philippine Government.
		But kidnappings are neither new nor unusual in a region racked by a religious conflict that dates back to the 16th century, when Spanish colonisers landed in the north of the Philippines and began their campaign to Christianise the people.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/54a/095.html (1042 words)

	The Philippines-The Moro Country
		The northeast corner of Mindanao is separated from the island of Leyte by the Surigao Strait, and that part of Mindanao has considerable sprinkling of Christian Filipinos, but both that island and the Sulus can be considered Moro country.
		Jolo is the chief seaport of the Sulus, and the Spanish alternated with the natives in occupying the space within the walled city.
		The sultan of Sulu used to live in coat) when the Spanish were not there, but during their occupancy of the town, and since, he has lived at Maibun on the,opposite shore some ten miles distant.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles34/world-cultures-15.shtml (3330 words)

	Swish of the Kris - 10. The Sulu Pirates
		Sitanki Island, at the extreme southern tip of the Philippine group and only fourteen miles across the straits from Borneo, was one of the favorite posts of the pirates.
		Piracy was replaced by the smuggling which still persists in the islands of Sulu in spite of the stabilizing effect of thirty years of American occupation.
		The piracy of Sulu was a sea phase of the military history of the Moros.
	www.bakbakan.com /swishk/swk2-10.html (2495 words)

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