The Apo Reef Light was first erected in Bajo Apo island in Apo Reef Natural Park in 1903 after being conceived and approved during the Spanish era under the Maritime Lighting Plan of Spain. The design planning of some of the sections of the light house first began in 1896. The construction of the lighthouse itself was halted momentarily with the eruption of the Philippine Revolution and the Spanish-American war and was continued later on by the combined workmanships of both the Americans and the Filipinos, paving the way for the first light from the lighthouse to warn incoming ships of the shallow reefs surrounding the Atoll in 1906.
