NOUN
- a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life
How To Use Galapagos Islands In A Sentence
- The tortoises, marine iguanas and land iguanas on the Galapagos Islands, studied by Charles Darwin, provide some of the most striking examples.
- Altitudinal change in upland endemism, species turnover, and diversity on Isla Santa Cruz, the Galápagos Islands. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
- There are stopovers in exotic places including the Galapagos Islands and Mauritius.
- A visit to the Galapagos Islands might also satisfy an ecologically - minded person like yourself.
- In the end, the Italian Space Agency announced that the satellite had landed approximately 300 km north-west of the Galapagos Islands.
- The Galapagos Islands are one of Ecuador's main tourist attractions.
- A troop of foul-smelling marine iguanas warm themselves in the sun in the Galapagos Islands.
- Finally, time was spent on the Galapagos Islands recording indigenous animals in their natural habitats.
- This situation is analogous to that of the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin drew inspiration for his theory of evolution, except that the pupfish evolved in ‘islands’ of water within a desert ‘sea.’
- Of the existing 23 World Heritage volcanic sites, it is most comparable with the oceanic serial island shield volcanos of Hawaii and the Galapagos, both of which formed over a static hot spot and have as many exceptional volcanic features as Teide though the large Galapagos islands group is much richer in endemic plants. Teide National Park, Spain
