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The Mantanani Islands (Malay: Pulau Mantanani) are a group of three islands off the north-west coast of the state of Sabah, Malaysia, opposite the town of Kota Belud, in northern Borneo. The largest island is Mantanani Besar; the other two are Mantanani Kecil and Lungisan. It is a popular site for recreational diving and is known for its ...
Mariveles Reef (Malay: Terumbu Mantanani; Filipino: Bahura ng Mariveles; Vietnamese: đá Kỳ Vân; Mandarin Chinese: 南海礁; pinyin: Nánhǎi Jiāo), is located in the SW of Dangerous Ground in the Spratly Islands. [1]
The Mantanani scops owl (Otus mantananensis), is a small owl in the scops-owl genus Otus found on small islands between Borneo and the Philippines.It is listed by the IUCN as "near threatened" because its range is limited with its population being fragmented on several different islands, and its forest habitat is being degraded by ongoing logging and clearance.
The islands are underlaid by folded sandstone and sedimentary rock, are part of the Crocker Range rock formation of the western coast of Sabah.Towards the end of Ice Age happened about one million years ago, changes of the sea level occurred, resulting in portions of the mainland being cut off by the sea, thus forming the islands today.
The Mantanani scops-owl is named after Mantanani Island, a tiny island off the north coast of Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo). However, other than on that small Malaysian island, the bird is found entirely in several small Philippine islands: Sibutu, Tablas, Romblon, the Calamian Islands north of Palawan, the Cuyo Island group.
Camp Mantanani is located on Pulau Mantanani (Mantanani Island) off the north west coast of Sabah, and was established in late 2009 by Camps International, with the consent of landowners and community officials on the island.
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Before the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific, the island of Borneo was divided into five territories. Four of the territories were in the north and under British control – Sarawak, Brunei, Labuan, an island, and British North Borneo; while the remainder, and bulk, of the island, was under the jurisdiction of the Dutch East Indies.