Russell Place
The place
Russell Place in Palawan province, Puerto Princesa/Aborlan area (east coast of Palawan, western Philippines), at 8 m elevation, tropical coastline on the Sulu Sea. Continuous Philippine Palawan cluster (batches 340-392). Iconic Palawan beach resort/backpacker cottage lodging (Palawan, 750,000 residents, the largest province in the Philippines at 15,000 km² + Puerto Princesa Underground River, UNESCO 1999, an iconic 8.2 km underground river, the longest navigable one in the world + El Nido's iconic karst landscape, Bacuit Archipelago + heritage of the Palawan Batak/Tagbanwa/Palawan peoples (pre-colonial Austronesian peoples, 4000-strong, Palawan/Batak/Tagbanwa languages, protected under the 1997 Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) + Ancestral Domain areas in southern/northern Palawan + the Puerto Princesa Prisoner Massacre, 14 December 1944, 143 American WWII POWs killed by Japanese forces, an event as iconic as the 1942 Bataan-Corregidor revelations + Ferdinand Magellan's 1521 arrival in Cebu and death at Mactan at the hands of Lapu-Lapu on 27 April 1521 + 333 years of Spanish Catholic rule, 1565-1898 + Marcos Martial Law in 1972 + the EDSA Revolution of 25 February 1986).
The setting
Palawan, Puerto Princesa/Aborlan, east coast of Palawan, western Philippines, 8 m, tropical coastline, Sulu Sea, continuous cluster batches 340-392, iconic Palawan beach resort/backpacker lodging + Palawan 750,000 residents, 15,000 km² + Puerto Princesa Underground River, UNESCO 1999, 8.2 km, longest navigable underground river in the world + El Nido karst, Bacuit Archipelago, Palawan Batak/Tagbanwa pre-colonial peoples, 4000-strong, protected under IPRA 1997 + Ancestral Domain areas south/north Palawan + Puerto Princesa Massacre, 14 Dec 1944, 143 American WWII POWs, Japanese forces, echoes of Bataan-Corregidor 1942 + Magellan 1521, Cebu, death at Mactan at the hands of Lapu-Lapu, 27 April 1521 + 333 years of Spanish Catholic rule 1565-1898 + Marcos Martial Law 1972 + EDSA Revolution 25 Feb 1986.
