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	GALAPAGOS TORTOISES
		Galapagos tortoises in other populations have diverged from this common carapace shape, having a large anterior opening of the carapace and a carapace resembling a Spanish saddle.
		The divergence in carapace shape of some populations of tortoises in Galapagos involved opening the anterior carapace, exposing the head and base of the neck and abandoning, in part,an anti-predator defense employed by terrestrial turtles in many parts of the world.
		The degree of intraspecific competition in undisturbed populations of tortoises in the Galapagos is unknown, but it is expected to be greater in xeric areas where food, water and shade may be limited.
	members.tripod.com /%7Edcarson/galapagos_tortoises.html (4054 words)

	Discover Galapagos - Galapagos Islands Guided Tour - The Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador
		The Galapagos Archipelago is situated 800 kilometers west of the Ecuadorian coast and lie directly on the equator.
		The archipelago encompasses over 50 islands of volcanic origin that are spread out over an area of about 4,500 square kilometers.
		The archipelago is a little world within itself, or rather a satellite attached to America, whence it has derived a few stray colonists, and has received the general character of its indigenous productions.
	www.discovergalapagos.com /Archipel.html (652 words)

	Galapagos-Islands.net
		The Galapagos Islands were pirates favorite hideout and supply base for water and meat (particularly the giant tortoises).
		This exploitation on the Galapagos, brought the tortoise, fur seals and sperm whales, near extinction.
		Galapagos is officially names "Archipélago de Colón" in honor of Christopher Columbus's discovery of American 400 years earlier.
	www.galapagos-islands.net (360 words)

	Galapagos Islands Guided Tour - The Endangered Galapagos Giant Tortoise
		Strictly protected in the Galapagos, which were declared a National Park in 1959.
		Restricted to the Galapagos Islands (Archipiélago de Colon) (Ecuador), astride the equator in the east Pacific (See Population section for further details).
		Some nests are protected by lava corrals and the eggs of many of the populations are taken from the wild and hatched and reared at the Charles Darwin Research Station.
	www.discovergalapagos.com /tortoise.html (1810 words)

	Galapagos Islands : Islands of the Galapagos archipelago - Galapagos islands description - Ecuador archipelago nature ...
		The geography of the Galapagos islands is as fascinating as its inhabitants, islands merge into volcanoes that disappear under water, the Galapagos islands archipelago is an oasis for animals and plants that exist nowhere else.
		The rich Galapagos islands marine life is fascinating, a world as wonderful as on the islands, colourful fish in schools, manta rays, sea turtles, hammer head sharks, whale sharks, and magnificent reefs.
		The Galapagos Islands are a group of thirteen main islands, six smaller islands, tiny islets and rocks covering an area of 8000 sq.
	www.galapagostour.net /galapagos%20-%20islands.htm (2590 words)

	Charles Darwin. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage ...
		It is, therefore, worthy of his observation, that this archipelago, instead of possessing a humid climate and rank vegetation, cannot be considered otherwise than extremely arid, and, for an equatorial region, remarkably temperate.
		As the archipelago is free to a most remarkable degree from gales of wind, neither the birds, insects, nor lighter seeds, would be blown from island to island.
		I have said that the Galapagos Archipelago might be called a satellite attached to America, but it should rather be called a group of satellites, physically similar, organically distinct, yet intimately related to each other, and all related in a marked, though much lesser degree, to the great American continent.
	www.du.edu /~ttyler/ploughboy/darwinjrnhg.htm (9493 words)

	NPR : Galapagos Plants, Wildlife Under Threat
		The Galapagos Islands, part of Ecuador, are located some 600 miles off the mainland.
		Morning Edition, August 8, 2005 · The Galapagos Islands are home to some of the rarest flora and fauna in the world.
		The islands of the Galapagos are a national park and the surrounding waters a marine reserve run by Ecuador.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4788767 (494 words)

	Galapagos Islands Ecuador overview and information, characteristics, useful expressions
		And some years later in 1574 the archipelago could be drawn in a world map with the name "Islands of the turtles" or in Spanish "Archipelago de los Galopegoes".
		The Charles Darwin Research Station gives you a good introduction of the Galápagos Islands and we recommend to visit it as early in the morning as possible or late in the afternoon, because of the many tourists.
		Although it is the provincial capital of the archipelago, it seems very calm and cosy.
	www.ingalapagos.com /overview.htm (1229 words)

	The Galapagos Islands
		The Galapagos Archipelago is a cluster of some 13 volcanic islands and associated islets and rocks located just under the equator, about 600 miles west of Ecuador in South America.
		Indeed, the Galapagos islands are considered to be one of the most active volcanic areas in the world.
		In later life, Darwin maintained that the Galapagos were the source of all his ideas and research and, of all the visitors there, the Galapagos are today most closely associated with Darwin.
	www.rit.edu /~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/AboutGalapagos.html (480 words)

	AMNH - Expedition : Endangered
		The Galapagos giant tortoise is listed under the name Geochelone nigra in the IUCN 1996 Red List.
		The Galapagos giant tortoise specimen on display in the Museum's Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians may be a hybrid -- a cross between tortoise subspecies from different islands.
		Since all Galapagos giant tortoises are closely related, hybrids are viable and fertile.
	www.amnh.org /nationalcenter/Endangered/tortoise/tortoise.html (646 words)

	Pacific Animal Kingdom: Galapagos Islands
		The isolated Galapagos archipelago of 50 volcanic islands, hundreds of miles off the Ecuadorian coast, have become a haven for unique plant life and animal life, as well as a geological treasure.
		The main town on the Galapagos is Puerto Ayora (population 10,000) on the island of Santa Cruz.
		It wasn't until whaling fleets arrived at the end of the 19th century and Galapagos became a regular port of call, that the wildlife was threatened.
	www.aarp.org /travel/destinations/americas/a2004-03-03-galapagos_islands_2004.html (754 words)

	The Galapagos Travel information
		There are 13 major islands in the Galapagos Archipelago which lies 373 km/600 miles from mainland Ecuador.
		Whalers and Galapagos residents use to leave their mail inside it, waiting for a captain of any boat headed to where the mail was addressed to deliver it.
		The weather in the Galapagos Islands is largely determined by the ocean currents.
	www.galapagos-travel.com (2425 words)

	CTTC - The Galapagos Tortoise Conservation Program: the Plight and Future for the Pinzon Island Tortoise by Fred ...
		Pinzón is a low (458 m), dry and relatively small island (18.05 km²) in the center of the archipelago (Figure 2).
		The highest concentration of repatriated tortoises is at the South Crater area, while the native tortoises and many other repatriates live on the outer western and southern slopes of Pinzón (Figure 2).
		Patton, J.L., Yang, S.Y. and Meyers, P. Genetic and morphological divergence among introduced rat populations (Rattus rattus) of the Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador.
	www.tortoise.org /archives/pinzon.html (2827 words)

	Up Close...Way Up Close: Galapagos Islands and Ecuador Highlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We were prepared to experience the Galapagos wildlife’s inattention to mankind, but this went much further.
		Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Archipelago in 1835 for five weeks during his five-year scientific circumnavigation of the Southern Hemisphere aboard the H.M.S Beagle.
		Travelers to the Galapagos are placed in the enviable position of connecting to the islands through Ecuador’s capital, Quito, sitting at 9,500 feet altitude and surrounded by volcanic peaks of the Andes.
	www.highonadventure.com /Hoa01dec/Galapagos/galapagos.htm (1241 words)

	UCC Press Release: [short title here] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Without the living laboratory that is the Galapagos Archipelago, his theory of evolution and natural selection might never have been developed, and to this day, according to Dr. Padraig Whelan of the Department of Zoology Ecology and Plant Science at University College Cork, the archipelago remains one of the world’s key areas for scientific research.
		The response from terrestrial life forms is to compensate by producing significantly increased batches of offspring, while for the marine iguana, the dearth of food means that dominant males tire more easily and lose their place in the hierarchy to subordinates, who, in turn, fall victim when the next El Nino arrives.
		The Galapagos Archipelago, Dr Whelan says, has become a mecca for tourists, and in such an ecologically sensitive area, this has presented its own problems.
	www.ucc.ie /opa/pr/PRGalapagos.html (469 words)

	Galapagos Island Vacation
		Carole and I spent the Y2K New Years visiting the Galapagos Archipelago, a cluster of 13 volcanic islands in the Pacific ocean, six hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador.
		Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos islands in 1835, and his observations of unique wildlife helped him develop his ideas about evolution and natural selection.
		This blue-footed booby and her chick were keeping a wary eye on a Galapagos hawk circing nearby.
	www.miami.muohio.edu /president/personal/w8zr/familyphotos/galapagos.htm (315 words)

	Galapagos Islands, Diving, Live Aboard, Dive Cruises, Diving Galapagos, Lammer Law, Yacht Charters
		The January 1998 issue of Rodale's 'Scuba Diving Magazine' rated the Galapagos Archipelago among the world's top diving destinations and one of the top five big animal dives in the Pacific Basin.
		All dives in the Galapagos are made from a dinghy (panga as known in the islands).
		Their task is to educate the visitor with regards to the riches of the Galapagos and to provide safety and comfort for our diving clients.
	www.divinggalapagos.com /generalinfo.html (619 words)

	Galapagos Islands - Galapagos Islands and Galapagos Archipelago travel with Aurora Expeditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The archipelago consists of about 15 main islands and several smaller ones, which are actually the peaks of huge volcanoes, largely formed from basalt, and have never been part of any major landmass.
		One of the most delightful aspects of visiting the Galapagos archipelago is that the animals are not afraid of people.
		Galapagos fur seals are often seen off the west coast and snorkelling may reveal octopus, sharks, moray eels and myriad tropical fish.
	www.auroraexpeditions.com /html/galap.html (1219 words)

	GLTours - Adventure Travel To The Galapagos Islands
		The Galapagos archipelago has been described as magical, enchanting and hypnotizing.
		You may think their stories are pure fabrication: birds that no longer fly, tortoises weighing up to 500 pounds, Antarctic penguins living right on the equator, blue-footed booby birds doing sophisticated mating dances.
		Your Galapagos accommodations are aboard one of the many authorized Galapagos cruise vessels.
	www.gltours.com /Countries/Galapagos.htm (184 words)

	Chapter 17 - Galapagos Archipelago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Waterhouse, who has published [4] an account of the insects of this archipelago, and to whom I am indebted for the above details, informs me that there are several new genera: and that of the genera not new, one or two are American, and the rest of mundane distribution.
		Captain Porter has described [5] those from Charles and from the nearest island to it, namely, Hood Island, as having their shells in front thick and turned up like a Spanish saddle, whilst the tortoises from James Island are rounder, fler, and have a better taste when cooked.
		As the birds are so tame the re, where foxes, hawks, and owls occur, we may infer that the absence of all rapacious animals at the Galapagos, is not the cause of their tameness here.
	www.biopsychology.org /publications/darwin/voyage/chapter-17.html (9483 words)

	CHAPTER 17: GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO
		This archipelago has long been frequented, first by the bucaniers, and latterly by whalers, but it is only within the last six years, that a small colony has been established here.
		All these species are peculiar to this archipelago; and so is the whole group, with the exception of one species of the sub-group Cactornis, lately brought from Bow Island, in the Low Archipelago.
		The proportion of 100 flowering plants out of 183 (or 175 excluding the imported weeds) being new, is sufficient, I conceive, to make the Galapagos Archipelago a distinct botanical province; but this Flora is not nearly so peculiar as that of St. Helena, nor, as I am informed by Dr. Hooker, of Juan Fernandez.
	www.human-nature.com /darwin/voyage/chap17.html (9485 words)

	Charles Darwin - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During his voyage, he visited the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Falkland Islands, the South American coast, the Galapagos Islands, New Zealand and Australia, meeting native peoples, seeing natural wonders, and above all, collecting considerable quantities of specimens which were sent back at intervals during the voyage.
		In particular, every island in the Galapagos Archipelago had its own kind of tortoises and birds that were all slightly different in appearance, favoured food etc., but otherwise similar.
		In the spring of 1837 ornithologists at the British Museum informed Darwin that the several very different species of birds he had taken in the Galapagos were all finches, and from Fitzroy's collection he was able to relate the finches to separate islands.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Charles_Darwin (3963 words)

	about galapagostour.net, Galapagos tours, Ecuador tours, Galapagos islands tours, Galapagos archipelago
		We have a passion for organizing tours to the Galapagos islands, the Galapagos islands are our dreamland, we can be in close contact with nature and help preserve it through responsible planning of tours.
		Galapagos tours are just as fun planning as taking them, we are in constant contact with local operators of tours and cruise boats, they are our friends and it is fun to work with them.
		In return we hope travellers during their tours learn as much as they can about nature conservation and view the fragility of the environment through the eyes of the scientists at the Darwin research station and the many people interested in a healthy planet.
	www.galapagostour.net /about-galapagos-tour.htm (501 words)

	Galapagos Islands map
		The Galapagos Islands has 13 major islands, 6 minor islands and 42 islets or surfacing rocks, a total of 8.000 sq Km2 approximately, located in the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 kilometers west of the coast of South America.
		Experience the enchantment and natural beauty that awaits you in the amazing Galapagos Islands.
		Traveling by yacht and panga from islet to island, enjoy the stunning tropical landscape flourishing with an abundance of wildlife - from birds to fur seals, marine iguanas and sea lions, to Darwin's finches, giant tortoises, and blue-footed boobies.
	www.galapagosmap.com (124 words)

	Discover Galapagos - Galapagos Islands Guided Tour - The Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador
		The volcanic Galapagos platform originated probably not more than 15 million years ago and the oldest island not more than 2.4 million years ago.
		Some historians believe these islands were the Galapagos.
		, a Spanish captain, Thomas de Berlanga rediscovered the Galapagos archipelago.
	www.discovergalapagos.com /archipel.html (652 words)

	Cruise Travel: Galapagos Archipelago - Brief Article
		Cruising "The Islands Of Evolution" In Style Aboard The Galapagos Explorer II Less than three hours after landing on the tiny airstrip at San Cristobal, we were crouched on a dark-sand beach staring eye to eye at sea lions, while brown pelicans swooped down to the clear blue water looking for their evening meal.
		The Galapagos Explorer II accommodates 100 passengers in 50 spacious air-conditioned suites lined with dark faux-wood paneling and decorated in warm dusty-rose fabrics.
		Rhythm of life onboard the Galapagos Explorer II begins with an early morning wake-up call, buffet breakfast, and all aboard the pangas by 8 a.m., dressed accordingly for dry or wet landings.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m0FCP/1_22/64564186/p1/article.jhtml (1528 words)

	Archipelago Holdings, Inc. - Fact Sheet - Hoover's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Darwin found the Galapagos archipelago to be a fertile proving ground for his theory of evolution.
		Archipelago Holdings has done some evolving of its own, morphing from an electronic communications network (ECN) to a full-fledged electronic stock market trading in NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq, and Pacific Exchange listings, and trying to prove to the world and to its more-established competitors that it's fit enough to survive -- and prevail.
		Archipelago's current configuration owes much to its absorption of former rival REDIBook ECN, and its partnering with the Pacific Exchange to launch ArcaEx, short for Archipelago Exchange.
	www.hoovers.com /free/co/factsheet.xhtml?&ID=59307&abforward=true&mode=print (299 words)

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