On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species in 1959 the Galapagos Island National Park was created and in 1998 the interior waters of the Archipelago were declared a Biological Marine Reserve, the second largest in the world. UNESCO delegated the National Park Service guardians of the islands and they [...]
The famous Voyage of the Beagle took Charles Darwin around the world exploring some of the most isolated places in the world, including the Galapagos Islands. “’The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable: it seems to be a little world within itself” Charles Darwin, 1835. http://darwin-online.org.uk On the 15th of September, 1835 the [...]
Untouched by man they sit alone in the vast Pacific Ocean, 960km off the coast of South America, born of fire from the depths of the sea, these are the Galapagos Islands. They are the Islands that changed the world forever, an untainted laboratory of life and home to some of the strangest creatures on [...]