Bashi Channel
Babuyan Island (sometimes called Babuyan Claro) is the highest and northernmost island in the Babuyan Islands in Luzon Strait north of Luzon Island in the Philippines and also directly south of Taiwan via Bashi Channel to Luzon Strait. The whole island makes up the barangay of "Babuyan Claro", that constitute the municipality of Calayan in Cagayan province. The volcanic island has a population of 1,423 as of the 2010 Census.