About The Galapagos Islands Ecuador Charles Darwin - Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, 972 km west of continental Ecuador.
 The Galápagos Islands form the Galápagos Province of Ecuador and are all part of the country's national park system. The islands have a population of around 40,000 and the principal language on the islands is Spanish.
The islands are geologically young and famed for their vast number of endemic species which were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle that contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
The Galápagos Islands were short listed as a candidate to be one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature by the New Seven Wonders of the World Foundation. As of February 2009 the archipelago was ranking first in Group B, the category for islands. |
