Balabac Island
Balabac Island is the southern-most island of the Palawan province in the Philippines, only about north from Sabah, Malaysia, across the Balabac Strait.
Administratively, the island forms the main part of Balabac Municipality and is divided into 14 barangays :
Balabac Island is home to various endemic species. It is the home of birds like the grey imperial pigeon, Philippine cockatoo, blue-headed racket-tail, and the Palawan hornbill. The Philippine mouse-deer, a subspecies of the greater mouse-deer can only be found in this island.
The Molbogs, a Muslim ethnolinguistic group, is concentrated in this island. Their livelihood includes farming, fishing and barter trading with the nearby Mapun and Sabah market centres.
on the southern point of Balabac Island, circa 1892
