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The Galápagos Islans (Official name: Archipiélago de Colón; other Spanish names: Islas de Colón or Islas Galápagos, from galápago, "saddle"—after the shells of saddlebacked Galápagos tortoises) are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator, 525 nautical miles (972 km/604 mi) west of continental Ecuador in the Pacific OceanCoordinates: 0°40′S, 90°33′W.

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  • These Ecuadorian islands are known officially as the Columbus Archipelago
  • The Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz is a good start for a tour of these South American islands
  • 600 miles offshore, these Ecuadoran islands are known as "The Enchanted Islands"
  • This Ecuadorean island group is home to 6 species of giant tortoises found nowhere else on Earth
  • To protect the Panama Canal during WWII, the U.S. established a base in this Ecuadoran island group
  • Isabela is the largest island in this Ecuadoran group whose Spanish name honors Columbus
  • Discovered in 1535, this province of Ecuador is 600 miles off the mainland
  • The marine iguana, the only lizard that lives in the sea, lives off the coast of these Ecuadoran islands
  • Once known as the Enchanted Isles, they lie about 600 miles west of Ecuador
  • These islands, made a national park by Ecuador in 1959, were made a World Heritage Site in 1978
  • Giant tortoises & marine iguanas were featured in an IMAX film about these islands that Darwin visited in 1835
  • In 1959, Ecuador made these islands a national park & wildlife refuge
  • Ecuador calls this island group Archipielago de Colon
  • These islands were named from the Spanish for "saddles", for the saddleback tortoises found there
  • Darwin spent just 17 days ashore in these islands in 1835, but his studies there still reverberate today
  • These title islands in a Vonnegut parable are home to the doomed survivors of the cruise ship Bahia de Darwin
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from a penguin exhibit in Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha, NE.) In the wild, penguins live south of the equator, with the northernmost ones being from this South American island group

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