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Galapagos Islands Galapagos Islands: Bartolomé Island Galapagos Islands: Fernandina Island
Learn how the Enchanted Isles' volcanic past and isolation enabled plants and animals to uniquely evolve
Visit Santiago Island, in the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin spent weeks experimenting, observing, and collecting specimens of the unique Galapagos wildlife
Iguana in Galapagos National Park, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Sally Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus), Galapagos National Park, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. blue-footed booby
Observe flightless cormorants in their natural habitat on coasts of Fernandina and Isabela islands
Galapagos Islands: Sierra Negra
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Galápagos Islands summary
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Learn how the Enchanted Isles' volcanic past and isolation enabled plants and animals to uniquely evolve
Map and tour of the Galapagos Islands.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Visit Santiago Island, in the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin spent weeks experimenting, observing, and collecting specimens of the unique Galapagos wildlife
Tour San Salvador (Santiago) Island, in the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin...
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Observe flightless cormorants in their natural habitat on coasts of Fernandina and Isabela islands
The flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi), endemic to the Galpagos...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The unique animal life of the Galapagos Islands
Speciation and biological diversity in Galapagos Islands ecosystems.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Galapagos Islands
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, designated a World Heritage site in 1978.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Galapagos Islands: Bartolomé Island
Bartolomé Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
© Alexander/Fotolia
Galapagos Islands: Fernandina Island
Lava flowing into the sea from Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
JAMPS—iStock/Thinkstock
Iguana in Galapagos National Park, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
© Roman Shiyanov/Fotolia
Sally Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus), Galapagos National Park, Galapagos...
© javarman/Fotolia
blue-footed booby
Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
© Don Mammoser/Shutterstock.com
Galapagos Islands: Sierra Negra
Sierra Negra (“Black Range”), Isabela Island, Galapagos National Park, Ecuador.
© estivillml/Fotolia
Small craft in the harbour at Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands
Keith Gunnar/Bruce Coleman Inc.
Santa Fe Island
Cactus tree (Opuntia galapageia) on Santa Fe Island, Galápagos Islands,...
Balabiot
Fernandina Island: flightless cormorants
Mated pair of flightless cormorants (Phalacrocorax harrisi) at their nest...
MichaelStubblefield—iStock/Thinkstock
giant land tortoises on Isabela Island
Giant land tortoises gathering in a rain pond in the Caldera of Alcedo on Isabela...
Tui De Roy Moore
Darwin's finches
A sketch of four species of finches observed by British naturalist Charles Darwin...
© Photos.com/Thinkstock
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