Babuyan Islands
Americanplural noun
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The remote Batanes or Babuyan islands, where Ragasa is forecast to make landfall, are home to about 20,000 people, many of whom live in poverty.
From BBC
It was blowing over the coastal waters of the Babuyan Islands in Luzon Strait off Aparri town Wednesday morning, forecasters said.
From Washington Times
“Violent, life-threatening conditions are expected to continue” on Wednesday over northwestern Cagayan and the outlying Babuyan Islands as well as the northern mountainous regions of Apayao and Ilocos Norte provinces, according to an advisory from the country’s weather bureau.
From Seattle Times
William Shinn Gates, 28, Annapolis graduate who was retired from the U. S. Navy for his health, wanted to look for treasure and see whether the women of the Babuyan Islands really outnumbered the men 20 to 1.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the 1st of November, our noon observation gave 20° 15' latitude, and 236° 42' longitude, so that we were already in the neighbourhood of the Bashi and Babuyan Islands.
From Project Gutenberg
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