IV. ELEVATIONS. Alphabetical List of the Principal Elevations in the Philippine Islands. The following table of elevations has been compiled by the Philippine Census Bureau from all accessible sources, including the Gazetteer of the Philippine Islands of the War Department, and maps and charts, including the Atlas of the Philippine Islands, prepared by the Jesuit fathers. Most of the points whose heights are here given are situated near the seacoast, and the heights have evidently been determined by vertical angles from vessels engaged in surveying the coast. Few elevations have been determined in the interior, and these few probably by means of cistern and aneroid barometers. These elevations are, therefore, not of a high degree of accuracy, which is emphasized by the fact that in many cases several measurements have been found of the same point, differing from one another by hundreds of feet. In all such cases the altitude selected is that which had the best authority or seemed, from the probabilities of the case, to be the most nearly correct. Principal elevations in the Philippine Islands. Bantón Island.. Báquit mountain Baring mountain Basilan Island.. Batbatán hill.. Batuá mountain Bay peak Bayabas mountain. Bogbog hill Botolan mountain Brow shoulder Bubuán Island Bucás peak.. Bulipongpong Island. Bulu Island. Bulusan volcano. Babuyanes Islands Albay Mindanao Mindanao Surigao. Masbate Paragua Joló. Balábac Island. 3, 200 4, 667 179 West coast of Sámar. 295 1, 115 1, 100 1,826 2,406 2,810 Panay 4,333 Iloilo and Antique 1,890 1,500 Abra 3, 629 Principal elevations in the Philippine Islands-Continued. Name. Location. Height in feet. Bungayan mountain Burnay peak But Gaatan hill. Butbilao peak Calupag Island Camasoso Island. Canayán Island Canen mountain. Capisanan hill.. 757 Capnoyan Island 800 449 Cápoas plateau Paragua Capulujan mountain 3, 350 Masbate Carabao Island. Coco Island. Colilia Verde.. Congcong peak Caraballo Sur Casarejo hill. Cascada mountains Catmón mountain Caua volcano... Cautarag mountain Cetáceo mountain Cinco Picos Cleopatra's Needle.. Cónico hill.. 26162-VOL 1-05-17 Paragua Basilan Strait. Panay Bohol Sulu Sea.. Calamianes Islands. 1,244 5, 868 Dinagat Island. 1,049 3,095 926 1, 200 Principal elevations in the Philippine Islands—Continued. Name. Location. Height in feet. Iher mountain Jalajala mountain Kapulujan mountain Labo Tetas de Polantuna volcano. Labot mountain... Lagén Island. Lanao Lake.. Lanas mountain Lila mountain.. Lingó mountain Madiaas mountain. Maestre de Campo Island. Magdoc mountain Mahuja peak. Mainil volcano Majayjay volcano.. Malabahoc mountain Batangas Cebú. Zambales. 2,000 Cuyos Islands. Paragua |