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The Galápagos or Galapagos Islands are named for ... names A manuscript map of the islands from the charts drafted by ... more than 15,000 people, and in 2010 there ...
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.
English: Topographic and bathymetric map of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Svenska: Topografisk och batymetrisk kartan över Galápagosöarna , Ecuador . Deutsch: Topografische and bathymetrische Karte der Galápagos-Inseln , Ecuador .
Baltra is a Spanish surname particularly common in Chile.Baltra Island was probably named after Lieutenant Humberto Baltra Opazo (1884-1950), a naval officer on board the Chilean naval corvette General Baquedano which visited Galapagos for 3 weeks in 1910 to conduct a hydrographical survey of the archipelago; Lieutenant Baltra was specifically tasked with surveying Baltra Island and the ...
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.
Pinta was the original home to Lonesome George, perhaps the most famous tortoise in the Galápagos Islands. He was the last known representative of the subspecies Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii. The most northern major island in the Galápagos, at one time Isla Pinta had a thriving tortoise population.
Equirectangular projection. Geographic limits of the map: N: 1.8° N; S: 1.6° S; W: 92.1° W; E: 89.1° W; Date: 2 March 2009 (upload date) Source: own work, using United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency data; World Data Base II data; Author: NordNordWest: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Galapagos Simple Map.png
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.