Galapagos
[galapægəus]
Examples
- The flora of the Galapagos Islands prove d equally distinctive. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On its way west in the Pacific the Beagle spent a month at the Galapagos Archipelago, which lies under the equator five or six hundred miles from the mainland. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The inhabitants of the Cape Verde Islands are related to those of Africa, like those of the Galapagos to America. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In the Galapagos Arch ipelago he found only one species of terrestrial mammal, a new species of mouse, and that only on the most easterly island of the group. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Galapagos Archipelago, situated under the equator, lies at a distance of between 500 and 600 miles from the shores of South America. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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