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This is a list of animals that live in the Galápagos Islands. The fauna of the Galápagos Islands include a total of 9,000 confirmed species. Of them, none have been introduced by humans, and seventeen are endemic. [citation needed] Due to amphibians intolerance of saltwater, no amphibians naturally occur on the Galapagos Islands.
Some animals like marine iguanas, may have swum there. In most environments the larger mammals are the predators at the top of the food chain, but those animals did not make it to the Galápagos. Thus the giant Galápagos tortoise became the largest land animal. Due to the lack of natural predators, the wildlife in the Galápagos is extremely ...
The Galápagos archipelago consists of 128 named islands. There are 13 islands larger than 10 km 2, 19 larger than 1 km 2, 42 islets smaller than 1 km 2, and at least 26 emergent rocks. [1] The total land area of the archipelago is 8032 km 2. [2] Isabela is the largest and highest island, with an area of 4,588 km 2 and reaching an elevation of ...
It is usually read / ɡ ə ˈ l æ p ə ɡ ə s / in British English and / ɡ ə ˈ l ɑː p ə ɡ ə s / in American English. [5] The name is first attested as the Spanish/Latin hybrid Insulae de los Galopegos ("Islands of the Turtles") on the map of the Americas in Abraham Ortelius's Theater of the Lands of the World (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ...
English: Map showing the current and extinct species distribution of the Galápagos tortoise by its sub-species. Galapagos location map from: File:Galapagos Islands topographic map-fr.png; Galapagos islands redrawn as vector, based upon File:Galapagos tortoise distribution Line diagram.png
Galapagos penguin. Order: Sphenisciformes Family: Spheniscidae. Penguins are southern ocean birds with only this one species occurring north of the equator. They are small to large in size and mostly black and white in colour. Galapagos penguin, Spheniscus mendiculus (E)
Here are some fun map facts for you: one of the oldest surviving maps is the Babylonian Map of The World. Archaeologists date it back to around 700 to 500 B.C. The map was a clay tablet nearly the ...
Daphne Major is a volcanic island just north of Santa Cruz Island and just west of the Baltra Airport in the Archipelago of Colón, commonly known as the Galápagos Islands. [1] [2] It consists of a tuff crater, devoid of trees, whose rim rises 120 m (394 ft) above the sea.