Sibuyan Sea - History

History

The Battle of the Sibuyan Sea was fought here on October 24, 1944 where the Japanese battleship Musashi sank and other ships were damaged.



Seas of the Philippines
Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
Sea
  • Bohol Sea
  • Camotes Sea
  • Celebes Sea
  • Philippine Sea
  • Samar Sea
  • Sibuyan Sea
  • Sulu Sea
  • Visayan Sea
  • West Philippine Sea
Strait
  • Balabac Strait
  • Cebu Strait
  • Luzon Strait
  • Mindoro Strait
  • San Bernardino Strait
  • San Juanico Strait
  • Surigao Strait
  • Tablas Strait
  • Tañon Strait
Gulf
  • Albay Gulf
  • Davao Gulf
  • Lagonoy Gulf
  • Leyte Gulf
  • Lingayen Gulf
  • Moro Gulf
  • Panay Gulf
  • Ragay Gulf
See also: Bodies of water of the Philippines
Earth's oceans and seas
Arctic Ocean
  • Amundsen Gulf
  • Barents Sea
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Bering Strait
  • Chukchi Sea
  • East Siberian Sea
  • Fram Strait
  • Greenland Sea
  • Gulf of Boothia
  • Kara Sea
  • Kara Strait
  • Laptev Sea
  • Lincoln Sea
  • Prince Gustav Adolf Sea
  • Pechora Sea
  • Wandel Sea
  • White Sea
Atlantic Ocean
  • Adriatic Sea
  • Aegean Sea
  • Alboran Sea
  • Archipelago Sea
  • Argentine Sea
  • Baffin Bay
  • Balearic Sea
  • Baltic Sea
  • Bay of Biscay
  • Bay of Bothnia
  • Bay of Campeche
  • Bay of Fundy
  • Black Sea
  • Bothnian Sea
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Celtic Sea
  • Davis Strait
  • Denmark Strait
  • English Channel
  • Foxe Basin
  • Greenland Sea
  • Gulf of Bothnia
  • Gulf of Finland
  • Gulf of Lion
  • Gulf of Guinea
  • Gulf of Maine
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • Gulf of St. Lawrence
  • Gulf of Venezuela
  • Hudson Bay
  • James Bay
  • Ionian Sea
  • Irish Sea
  • Irminger Sea
  • Labrador Sea
  • Levantine Sea
  • Libyan Sea
  • Ligurian Sea
  • Marmara Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Myrtoan Sea
  • North Sea
  • Norwegian Sea
  • Sargasso Sea
  • Sea of Åland
  • Sea of Azov
  • Sea of Crete
  • Sea of the Hebrides
  • Thracian Sea
  • Tyrrhenian Sea
Indian Ocean
  • Andaman Sea
  • Arabian Sea
  • Bay of Bengal
  • Gulf of Aden
  • Gulf of Aqaba
  • Gulf of Khambhat
  • Gulf of Kutch
  • Gulf of Oman
  • Gulf of Suez
  • Laccadive Sea
  • Mozambique Channel
  • Persian Gulf
  • Red Sea
  • Strait of Malacca
  • Timor Sea
Pacific Ocean
  • Arafura Sea
  • Bali Sea
  • Banda Sea
  • Bering Sea
  • Bismarck Sea
  • Bohai Sea
  • Bohol Sea
  • Camotes Sea
  • Celebes Sea
  • Ceram Sea
  • Chilean Sea
  • Coral Sea
  • East China Sea
  • Flores Sea
  • Gulf of Alaska
  • Gulf of California
  • Gulf of Carpentaria
  • Gulf of Fonseca
  • Gulf of Thailand
  • Gulf of Tonkin
  • Halmahera Sea
  • Java Sea
  • Koro Sea
  • Makassar Strait
  • Molucca Sea
  • Moro Gulf
  • Philippine Sea
  • Salish Sea
  • Savu Sea
  • Sea of Japan
  • Sea of Okhotsk
  • Seto Inland Sea
  • Sibuyan Sea
  • Solomon Sea
  • South China Sea
  • Sulu Sea
  • Tasman Sea
  • Visayan Sea
  • Yellow Sea
Southern Ocean
  • Amundsen Sea
  • Bellingshausen Sea
  • Cooperation Sea
  • Cosmonauts Sea
  • Davis Sea
  • D'Urville Sea
  • King Haakon VII Sea
  • Lazarev Sea
  • Riiser-Larsen Sea
  • Mawson Sea
  • Ross Sea
  • Scotia Sea
  • Somov Sea
  • Weddell Sea
Landlocked seas
  • Aral Sea
  • Caspian Sea
  • Dead Sea

Coordinates: 12°40′N 122°30′E / 12.667°N 122.5°E / 12.667; 122.5

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