Mindoro

American  

[min-dawr-oh, -dohr-oh, meen-daw-raw] / mɪnˈdɔr oʊ, -ˈdoʊr oʊ, minˈdɔ rɔ /

noun

1. a central island of the Philippines. 3,922 sq. mi. (10,158 sq. km).

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Mindoro British  

/ mɪnˈdɔːrəʊ /

noun

1. a mountainous island in the central Philippines, south of Luzon. Pop: 1 062 000 (2000 est). Area: 9736 sq km (3759 sq miles)

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Mindoro

Earlier this month, metal debris was similarly found off Busuanga island in western Palawan and in Calintaan town in Occidental Mindoro province.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2022

Search and rescue efforts were continuing after nightfall for the passengers and crew of the M/V Asia Philippines, an inter-island cargo and passenger vessel which came from nearby Mindoro island, the coast guard said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

In 1987, around 5,000 people died in the world's worst peacetime shipping disaster, when an overloaded passenger ferry Dona Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro island south of the capital, Manila.

From Reuters ● May 23, 2022

The tamaraw is found only on the island of Mindoro.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 28, 2021

On January 18, news was received that the fleet of our champans encountered the pirates in the entrance of Mindoro, eight in number.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various

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