Editing Corregidor (section)

==Geography==
[[Image:Corregidor overview landsat2000.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|Corregidor Island and the entrance to [[Manila Bay]].]]
Despite being located nearer to the southern coast of [[Bataan]], Corregidor and the other fortified islands of Manila Bay fall under the jurisdiction of the [[Cities of the Philippines|City]] of [[Cavite City|Cavite]].<ref name="BMcorreg">{{Cite news |last=Layug |first=Benjamin |date=May 10, 2015 |title=Ten things you may not know about Corregidor |publisher=[[BusinessMirror]] |url=https://businessmirror.com.ph/2015/05/10/ten-things-you-may-not-know-about-corregidor |access-date=November 15, 2019}}</ref><ref name="CaviteCity">[http://cavitecitylibrary.home.ph.istemp.com/custom3.html "About Cavite City"]. Cavite City Library. Retrieved on June 7, 2012.</ref><ref name="Reservations">Office of the Judge Advocate General, United States Army (1916). [https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesmil01genegoog "United States Military Reservations, National Cemeteries and Military Parks"], pp. 343–344. Government Printing Office, Washington.</ref> Corregidor, also known as "The Rock" for its rocky landscape and the heavy [[fortification]]s, along with [[Caballo Island]], about {{convert|1.7|km|abbr=on}} south, divide the entrance of [[Manila Bay]] into the North and South Channel.

The [[tadpole]]-shaped island, with its tail running eastward, is about {{convert|6.5|km|abbr=on}} long, about {{convert|2.0|km|abbr=on}} wide at its widest with a total land area of about {{convert|900|ha|acre}}.  The highest elevation is at {{convert|180|m|abbr=on}} on the Topside.<ref>U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1919). [https://books.google.com/books?id=0clBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA72 "United States Coast Pilot, Part 1"], pg. 72. Government Printing Office, Washington.</ref> The island is divided into four sections:

===Topside===
The island's biggest area, which points towards the [[West Philippine Sea]], rises prominently to a large flat area that is called "Topside". Beneath this was the fortified communications center of the island, as well as the location for the Army headquarters, barracks for [[enlisted men]], a branch of the Philippine Trust Co. bank, the Cine Corregidor movie theater, officers' quarters, underground ordnance shops, the parade ground, an Officers' Club with a 9-hole Golf Course, tennis courts, and swimming pool, and the bulk of the artillery batteries that constituted the strength of Corregidor.

===Middleside===
Middleside is a small [[plateau]] that interrupts the upward slope from Bottomside to Topside, and was the location of 2-story officers' quarters, barracks for the enlisted men, a hospital, quarters for non-commissioned officers, a service club, PX, and two schoolhouses—one for the children of Filipino soldiers and the other for American children.

===Bottomside===
[[Image:Aerial view of a Bottomside, Corregidor, Philippines, on 13 January 1982 (6408511).jpg|right|thumb|250px|Bottomside in 1982]]
Bottomside is the lower part of the island and is the neck that connects the tail and head of the island.  South of Bottomside was ''[[Barangay]] or Barrio'' San José (near what was Navy Beach); on the north is what was Army Dock, with its three large piers, and, east of Bottomside, is the [[Malinta Tunnel]].  The Malinta Hill separates Bottomside from the Tail End.<ref name="Malinta">[http://corregidorisland.com/malinta.html "Malinta Tunnel"]. Corregidor Island Web Site. Retrieved on March 9, 2011.</ref>

===Tailside===
The Tailside or Tail End is the remaining portion of the island where different memorials, shrines and the island's airstrip are located. Kindley Field was constructed in the early 1920s and named in honor of an early hero of the [[United States Army Air Corps|U.S. Army Air Corps]]. The airfield was operated then by the army, and the navy had a [[seaplane]] base. The short runway, cramped and hilly terrain had limited its use.<ref name="Bottomside" /><ref>Hubbard, Charles M. and Davis Jr., Collis H.. "Corregidor in Peace and War", p.82. University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-8262-1712-7}}.</ref><ref>[[Brian McAllister Linn|Linn, Brian McAllister]]. "Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902–1940", p.203. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1997. {{ISBN|0-8078-2321-X}}.</ref>

In 1968 during the first term of [[Ferdinand Marcos]], Tailside became the site of the [[Jabidah massacre]], an event which angered the Philippines Muslim minority enough to trigger the [[Moro conflict]], eventually leading to the creation of the [[Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao]] (BARMM).<ref name="Smith2015" /><ref name="BetweenIntegrationandSecession">{{Cite book|title = Between Integration and Secession: The Muslim Communities of the Southern Philippines, Southern Thailand and Western Burma/Myanmar|last = Yegar|first = Moshe|publisher = Lexington Books|year = 2002|pages = 267–268}}</ref>