It was discovered that many species, especially those considered endemic to southern Formosa or Lanyu (Botel Tobago), are synonymous with certain generally widespread species of the Philippine Islands, especially of Luzon and the northern small islands.
Oluanpi's lighthouse looks toward Lanyu, or Orchid Island, a tiny, rocky protuberance sixty-eight miles to the southeast and important because it is the home of the Yami, the smallest and most primitive tribe of aborigines in Taiwan. Isolated by geography, the Yami have been able to preserve their distinctive traditions and culture, living, farming, and fishing as their ancestors did countless hundreds of years ago from small, double-prowed boats covered with intricate carving and brilliant decoration. Adventurous tourists can now fly to Lanyu from Taitung.
1982 October 17, “Telephones reach all villages ROC forges ahead in communications”, in Free China Weekly[3], volume XXIII, number 41, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
Pointing to the great pains the government has taken to assure that every community in Taiwan has at least one telephone, Lien said that in one case, the Taiwan Telecommunications Administration spent NT$13 million (US$325,000) to have a telephone booth installed in a remote village on Lanyu (Orchid Island) off the coast of eastern Taiwan.
2013 September 21, “After Philippines, Typhoon Usagi heads for China, Taiwan and Hong Kong”, in Deutsche Welle[4], archived from the original on August 23, 2015, Weather[5]:
Officials recorded gusts exceeding 230 kilometers per hour on the island of Lanyu, and the bureau warned that dangerous winds had buffeted the holiday resort of Kending on the Hengchun peninsula as the storm makes its closest approach to the area.
A volcanic island covered with a carpet of tropical rainforest, Lanyu lies about 65km southeast of the city of Taitung, making it the southernmost outpost of Taiwan. Lanyu's status as a far-flung outpost isn't merely geographical, but cultural as well, as the island is by far the least Chinese part of Taiwan.
2022 August 2, Eric Chang, “Taiwan tracks 2 Chinese warships off Lanyu Island”, in Taiwan News[7], archived from the original on 02 August 2022, Politics[8]:
Two Chinese warships were tracked in international waters off the coast of Lanyu Island in eastern Taiwan early Tuesday morning (Aug. 2). A People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) missile destroyer and guided-missile frigate were spotted 45 nautical miles southeast of Lanyu at about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, a military official told CNA. The official said that over the past two days PLAN reconnaissance ships, missile destroyers, and frigates have been monitored in the waters southeast of Hualien County and Lanyu Island.
