The language of Babuyan Island is sometimes classified as a dialect of Ivatan. Babuyan was depopulated by the Spanish and only repopulated at the end of the 19th century with families from Batan Island, most of them speakers of one of the Ivatan dialects.[2]
Babuyan Island lies about Шаблон:Convert south-southwestward of Balintang Islands, and about Шаблон:Convert northward of Cape Engaño Lighthouse. The nearly triangular island is about Шаблон:Convert long in a northeast and southwest direction, with an average width of about Шаблон:Convert. The island seems to be steep all around. A reef projects from its western point. The south point is steep and rocky with a black, rocky, sugarloaf islet, called Pan de Azucar, close inshore.[3]Шаблон:Clear left
Volcanoes
Near the western point of the island is Smith Volcano, also known as Mount Babuyan, about Шаблон:Convert high. In the middle of the island and east-southeastward from Smith is Babuyan Claro, also known as Mount Pangasun, about Шаблон:Convert high, between which the mountains are much lower, so that from a considerable distance eastward it appears as a round mountain with a detached hillock northward. There are three other volcanic cones with no historic eruptions on the island: Cayonan, Dionisio and Naydi.[4]
