Balabac Island
The southernmost island of Palawan, about 50 kilometres from Borneo. The Balabac group has white sand bars, mangroves and clear lagoons, and is home to the Palawan mouse deer. Boats reach it from Rizal and Bataraza.
- Where
- Balabac, Mimaropa, Philippines
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 7.9500, 117.0200
Get the Balabac Island stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Balabac Island. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Mimaropa volume with your photos and a note.
Near Balabac Island
Tip of Borneo 106 km
The northernmost point of Borneo, a rocky headland in Kudat where the South China Sea meets the Sulu Sea. A globe monument marks the spot on the rocks above the waves.
Mantanani Islands 157 km
Three islands off the north-west coast of Sabah, opposite Kota Belud: Mantanani Besar, Mantanani Kecil and Lungisan. Divers come for the reefs, and the surrounding waters are known for their dugongs.
Tabon Caves 182 km
A complex of limestone caves on the west coast of Palawan, where archaeologists found the skull cap of Tabon Man in 1962, among the earliest human remains found in the Philippines. Tools, jars and burial remains show people lived here for tens of thousands of years.
Kinabalu Park 204 km
Malaysia's first World Heritage Site, a park set up in 1964 around Mount Kinabalu. Its forests climb from lowland jungle to mountain scrub and hold more than 4,500 species of plants and animals, among them 326 kinds of bird.
Mount Kinabalu 215 km
At 4,095 metres, the highest mountain in Malaysia and in all of maritime Southeast Asia, rising over Sabah's west coast. Climbers spend a night on its slopes to reach the bare granite summit plateau at dawn.
Turtle Islands Park 230 km
A marine park of three islands, Selingaan, Little Bakkungan and Gulisaan, in the Sulu Sea north of Sandakan. Green and hawksbill turtles come ashore on their beaches to lay eggs, and the hatchlings are released back to the sea.
Mari Mari Cultural Village 237 km
An open-air museum outside Kota Kinabalu that keeps alive the traditions and history of northern Borneo's indigenous peoples. Its houses represent five communities: the Kadazan-Dusun, Murut, Rungus, Lundayeh and Bajau.
Kota Kinabalu City Mosque 239 km
The city's second main mosque after the state mosque, in Likas on the edge of Kota Kinabalu. It is built beside a lagoon, and when the water lies still around it people call it the floating mosque.
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Questions
Where is Balabac Island?
Balabac Island is in Balabac, Mimaropa, Philippines. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Tip of Borneo (106 km), Mantanani Islands (157 km), Tabon Caves (182 km).
How do I get the Balabac Island stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Balabac Island and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Mimaropa volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Balabac Island before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Mimaropa volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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