Mavudis Island is the northernmost of the Batanes Islands and the northernmost island in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. It is part of the province of Batanes. Mavudis (or Mavodis) is the Ivatan

Ivatan language

The Ivatan language, also known as Ibatan or Chirin nu Ibatan , is an Austronesian language spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands...

 name for the island and means "low".

The island is full of vegetation of mango and palm.

The island is uninhabited according to the 2004 Philippine census.

The island is part of the Luzon Volcanic Arc

Luzon Volcanic Arc

The Luzon Volcanic Arc is a chain of volcanoes in a north south line across the Luzon Strait from Taiwan to Luzon. It is the northern extension of the Philippine Mobile Belt...

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Alternative names

Older Batan natives was also called the island Dihami, meaning "north" in Ivatan. By some members of the Spanish colonial government it was called Diami, and it is known as Yami or Y'Ami on most American Colonial Era maps of the Philippines.

The latter should not be confused with the aboriginal Yami

Tao people

The Tao , originally recognized as Yami , are a Taiwanese aboriginal people, native to tiny outlying Orchid Island in Taiwan. The Tao are an Austronesian people linguistically and culturally closer to the Ivatan people of the Batanes islands in the Philippines than to other aboriginal peoples on...

 of Taiwan

Taiwan

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that live on islands further north beyond Philippine territorial limits, but are geographically, culturally and linguistically related to the Ivatan.