SCARBOROUGH BELONGS TO PH, OLD MAPS SHOW

Old maps dating back to Spanish colonial times may hold the key to the claim of the Philippines to Scarborough Shoal. Known as “Bajo Scarburo,” the shoal now called Panatag by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), has been part of the known world since 1734, when European cartographers began to map the world in an age of conquest.

In fact, Bajo Scarburo appeared on a map of the “Archipelago Filipino” as a constituent part of Sambalez (Zambales province) in a topographic map of the country “drawn under the direction of Ildefonso de Aragon on April 15, 1820.”

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