Galapagos Islands
About Galapagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the equator, 485 nautical miles west of the mainland of South America. They form the Galápagos Province of the Republic of Ecuador, with a population of slightly over 33,000 in 2020. The province is divided into the cantons of San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, and Isabela, the three most populated islands in the chain. The Galápagos are famous for their large number of endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin in the 1830s and inspired his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. All of these islands are protected as part of Ecuador's Galápagos National Park and Marine Reserve.
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Finally. This is this recent news. This is this year. Diego is a Hood Island tortoise and they were tortoises who in the 1960s, they realized that there were only three males left and only about a dozen females left on a Galapagos Island. So they started a breeding program. This is about 50 years ago. So they had these three tortoises and they tried to make them mate.
from 312: No Such Thing As Quentin Tarantino's Bambi, 2020-03-13 at 00:43:40 · read transcript
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312: No Such Thing As Quentin Tarantino's Bambi put 2 places on the map.
- Hood Island · Ecuador
Coordinates: -0.7800, -91.1400