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The island is actually a collapsed volcano that is a nesting location for a variety of seabirds such as Frigatebirds and the elusive Red-Billed Tropicbird, among others. Isla Los Hermanos - This is a small island off Isabela. Isla Sombrero Chino - One of the most recognizable of the Galapagos Islands, Sombrero Chino name means "Chinese Hat." It ...
English: Topographic and bathymetric map of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Français : Carte topographique et bathymétrique de l'archipel des Galápagos , Équateur . *The background map is a raster image embedded in the SVG file.
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Things to do on the Galápagos Islands include spending time with local wildlife and hiking to the rim of one of the world's largest volcanic craters. I've been to the 13 main Galápagos Islands.
Floreana Island (Spanish: Isla Floreana) is a southern island in Ecuador's Galápagos Archipelago. The island has an area of 173 km 2 (67 sq mi). It was formed by volcanic eruption. The island's highest point is Cerro Pajas at 640 m (2,100 ft), which is also the highest point of the volcano like most of the smaller islands of Galápagos. The ...
Pinta Island is also home to swallow-tailed gulls, marine iguanas, Galapagos hawks, Galapagos fur seals and a number of other birds and mammals. [ citation needed ] On January 28, 2008, Galápagos National Park official Victor Carrion announced that 53 sea lions (13 pups , 25 youngsters, 9 males and 6 females) at Pinta had been found killed ...
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.
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