A Former barrio of Polillo, Quezon the municipality of Jomalig was created on January 22, 1961 through the enactment of Republic Act. No. 3372, which separated it from the municipal district of Polilllo, Quezon.
Jomalig Island is about 75 nautical miles southeast of Polillo Islands. This is an agricultural land and most of the inhabitants depend on coconut products, rice, fish and other minimal root crops. It is also one of the smallest and the farthest island municipality of Quezon Province being only 5,939 hectares or 51.7 sq. kilometers. Of its land area 229 has. Is unirrigated richfield, 3,104.0 hectares is coconut land and 2,605 hectares comprises forest, swamps and cogonal land.
Due to geographical location from Polillo, Quezon, mother town of Jomalig was rarely visited during those time by the town official of Polillo, Quezon. In this regard developmental move was very slow. It was only in the year 1952 when Jomalig, Quezon was subdivided for agricultural and residential lots by then FAO-PHILCUNSA through the sponsorship of Mayor Mamerto P. Azarias and the municipal Council of the said municipality.
The creation of municipal district of Jomalig by late Congressman Manuel S. Enverga was inagurated on August 21, 1962, when it was the time the civic leaders had geared towards self-reliance and began an inspiring steps towards development in agriculture. This memorable event reach the shores of the Bicol Region which is only 40 nautical miles from Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte, so surge of migration for a richer pasture and upliftment for a livelihood commended.
Resultant of it, the inhabitants of this municipality is a merger of different ethnic groups, like those of from Eastern Samar, Bohol, Sorsogon, Catanduanes, Camarines Sur and Camarines Norte and mostly then few from Quezon Province.
Geography
Jomalig is 75 miles southeast of Polillo Island with an area of 5.170 hectares and with a population density of 0.97 per hectares or 97 persons/100 hectares.
Topography
Jomalig Island is with a general topography of rolling hills with four distinguished rivers. They are Kanaway River of Brgy. Casiguran. This municipality is separated from the Island municipality of Patnanungan by Patnanungan-Jomalig channel. This has also two islets; namely Manlanat and Lantao Rocks
"A PILOT STORY"
Guam to Manila
The 4th leg is a distance of 1,384 nm at a cruising altitude of 43,000 feet. If you're not familiar with geography and you don't already have your atlas out, now's a good time. My atlas has a two-page spread of the Pacific showing principal air routes. So what do you know... I'm actually following one!
Navigating from Guam to Manila was completely routine until I reached the final waypoint, JOMALIG, which has a VOR on 116.7 MHz. Oddly, the JOMALIG VOR didn't engage as expected. For that matter, neither did the Manila VOR on 113.8 MHz. What's going on here?
I decided to make a descent to check out the situation. As I passed through the clouds at 10,000 feet, I couldn't see any land in any direction! Yet, the map display said I should be right smack over the Philippines! And my atlas confirmed the software's coordinate. This was too weird, so I decided to fly a "search pattern" to try to locate the island. After a couple of passes, I had found nothing even though I was definitely at the proper coordinates.
Then it occurred to me to check my CD-ROM drive and sure enough... the Flight Simulator CD-ROM was NOT in the drive! Two valuable lessons were learned that day:
Never leave home without the CD-ROM installed!
Always save your situation at the last waypoint before the final approach to an airport. That way, you have a convenient recovery point. Fortunately, I had started doing this back at Guam!
Chicago to Oakland
On April 11, I completed the final leg of the round-the-world trip. I decided to set the time of day to "day" for this trip as I was expecting to see some scenery on approach to Oakland. The 1705 nm hop was completed in 5.6 hours. My only problem was the landing on Oakland runway 27R. For some reason, I had a lot of trouble getting my runway alignment and descent rate co-ordinated. It took four attempts. I guess I was nervous!
It was while flying this leg of my Flight Sim trip that I learned of the fatal crash of brave little Jessica Dubroff, who crashed shortly after take-off at Cheyenne, Wyoming, while attempting to become the youngest person to complete a trans-USA flight.