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”... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved .”


Charles Darwin

 

Volcan Sierra Negra, Isabela Island. October 22, 05

Please review the pictures and a video taken by our guides and photographer on board the Galapagos Explorer II

 


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GALAPAGOS - A DISPLAY OF EVOLUTION

The Galapagos Archipelago consists of thirteen large islands (greater than 10 km2), six smaller islands, and over forty islets that have official names. The Archipelago is well isolated from other land masses (South America, 960 km, Cocos Island 720 km, Central America 1,100 km). The total land area is 7,882 square kilometers within a marine reserve of 45,000 square kilometers.

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