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Galápagos Islands
[ guh-lah-puh-gohs; Spanish gah-lah-pah-gaws ]
plural noun
- an archipelago on the equator in the Pacific, about 600 miles (965 km) W of and belonging to Ecuador: many unique species of animal life. 3,029 sq. mi. (7,845 sq. km).
Galápagos Islands
/ ɡəˈlæpəɡəs; ɡaˈlapaɣɔs /
plural noun
- a group of 15 islands in the Pacific west of Ecuador, of which they form a province: discovered (1535) by the Spanish; main settlement on San Cristóbal. Pop: 18 640 (2001). Area: 7844 sq km (3028 sq miles) Official Spanish nameArchipiélago de Colón
Galápagos Islands
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At the end of February 1973, Maurice and Maralyn - who had married in 1963 - left Panama for the Galapagos Islands, a journey which should have taken about 10 days.
The Baileys set off in search of adventure in 1972 but struck disaster the following year, en route to the Galapagos Islands.
The best sequence in the whole film is their encounter with two posh suburbanites who simply can’t imagine they’re in danger, bounding right up to them like the Galapagos Islands’ blue-footed boobies.
Blossey, who chairs the university’s deer management program, pointed to aerial shooting efforts used to eradicate feral goats on the Galapagos Islands and in New Zealand earlier this century.
Many special kinds of plants and animals have developed on the Galapagos islands because the islands are so far from other places.
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