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Tuna Festival is a week-long, an annual festival celebrated in General Santos, Philippines, in the first week of September of every year. [ 1 ] The fiesta features colorful tuna-themed designed float parade showcasing marine life, along General Santos City.
A closure of part of international waters in the Pacific Ocean between Indonesia, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Papua New Guinea, known as high seas pocket 1 caused some damage to the Philippine tuna industry. The Philippines lobbied for its reopening, which occurred in 2012 when 36 vessels were granted access. [13]: 23 [67]
HMS Tuna (N94) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy.She was laid down by Scotts, Greenock (in Scotland) and launched on 10 May 1940. She was equipped with German-built MAN Diesel engines and spent her career in World War II in western European waters, in the North Sea and off the west coast of France, and most famously taking part in Operation Frankton.
Anniversary of Cry of Pugadlawin - A historical event celebrated yearly with a civic parade at 6:00 am followed by a flag-raising and a wreath-laying ceremony in Quezon City. Pinaglabanan Day - celebration of the Battle of Pinaglabanan, a historic event in San Juan which sparked the Philippine Revolution of 1896.
The Clark Arena is an indoor arena [7] with a planned seating capacity of 25,000 to 35,000. [8]The CIAC markets the arena to be "Taylor Swift ready by 2028". [7]Despite the reference, there is no scheduled event featuring Swift at the planned venue and it was clarified the musician is used as a benchmark so that the arena have the capacity to host similarly renowned artists.
Territorial waters and exclusive economic zone of the Philippines. The Philippines is an archipelagic state whose over 7,000 islands of roughly 300,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi) [1] are surrounded by 36,289 kilometres (22,549 mi) of coastline [2]: 15 supporting a large coastal population.
There are more than 42,000 known major and minor festivals in the Philippines, the majority of which are in the barangay (village) level. Due to the thousands of town, city, provincial, national, and village fiestas in the country, the Philippines has traditionally been known as the Capital of the World's Festivities.
HMS Tuna has been the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy, and may refer to: HMS Tuna (1915), a torpedo boat purchased ca. 1915 and sold in 1920; HMS Tuma (1940), a storeship requisitioned 1940–1941; HMS Tuna (N94), a submarine commissioned in 1940 and scrapped in 1945