The Balintang Channel is the small waterway that seperates the Batanes and Babuyan Islands in the Luzon Strait, both of whom belong to the Philippines. Batanes is the northernmost and the smallest, both in terms of population and land area, among the provinces of the Philippines. ... The Babuyan Islands is an archipelago located in the Luzon Strait and north of Luzon island in the Philippines. ... The Luzon Strait is a strait connecting the Philippine Sea, in the western Pacific, to the South China Sea, between Taiwan and Luzon in the Philippines. ...
The island is very mountainous and is home to Mount Pulag, the second highest mountain in the country and Mayon, the most famous volcano.
To the west of Luzon island is the South China Sea (Luzon Sea in Philippine territorial waters), to the east is the Philippine Sea, and to the north is Luzon Strait containing Babuyan Channel and BalintangChannel.
The main part of the island is roughly rectangular in shape and has the long Bicol Peninsula protruding to the southeast.
A typhoon appeared in the Pacific to the E of northern Luzon, approached Bashi and BalintangChannels, moved northward to the east of Formosa, recurved NE to the west of the Loochoos Islands, crossed Japan, traversed the Sea of Japan and inclined northward towards Manchuria.
SW of Formosa, Formosa Channel, Foochow, Strait of Soya
A cyclone moved from the BalintangChannel across the China Sea and passed to the south of Hongkong with a movement towards the west.
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