The Galapagos is a group of 13 major islands and dozens of smaller islets and rocks that are the result of volcanic activity. The Galapagos Islands are located 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, the archipelago has been a National Park since 1959. The National Park Administration and the Charles Darwin Research Station, founded in 1964, look after the preservation of the islands, with native mammals, reptiles and birds protected. It is also the home of the famous Lonesome George, the last remaining giant tortoise of his sub-specie.
Galapagos flora and fauna
Galapagos is considered the living Laboratory of Evolution, filled with an extraordinary population of unique species not afraid of human beings such as the famous Galapagos giant tortoises, blue footed boobies, finches, flightless cormorants, land and marine iguanas, and penguins amongst many others.
In 1835 Charles Darwin visited the island to study its flora and fauna, it is here where he got inspired to write his famous book "The Origin of Species" and sparked a scientific revolution that changed conventional religious beliefs.
