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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Galápagos Islands' has mentioned 'Galápagos Islands' in the following places:
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| The Galxc3xa1pagos Islands (official name: Archipixc3xa9lago de Colxc3xb3n, other Spanish name: Las Islas Galxc3xa1pagos, Spanish pronunciation:xc2xa0[las xcbx88islas xc9xa3axcbx88lapaxc9xa3os], local pronunciation:xc2xa0[laz xcbx88ihlah xc9xa3axcbx88lapaxc9xa3oh]), part of the Republic of Ecuador, are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere. | WIKI |
| The Galxc3xa1pagos Islands and their surrounding waters form the Galxc3xa1pagos Province of Ecuador, the Galxc3xa1pagos National Park, and the Galxc3xa1pagos Marine Reserve. | WIKI |
| See also: Volcanoes of the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands | WIKI |
| Volcanism has been continuous on the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands for at least 20 million years, and perhaps even longer. | WIKI |
| School of scalloped hammerheads, Wolf Island, Galxc3xa1pagos Islands. | WIKI |
| Satellite photo of the Galxc3xa1pagos islands overlaid with the names of the visible main islands. | WIKI |
| Bartolomxc3xa9 (Bartholomew) Island xe2x80x93 Bartolomxc3xa9 Island is a volcanic islet just off the east coast of Santiago Island in the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands group. | WIKI |
| European discovery of the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands occurred when Spaniard Fray Tomxc3xa1s de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, sailed to Peru to settle a dispute between Francisco Pizarro and his lieutenants. | WIKI |
| The Galxc3xa1pagos Islands first appeared on the maps of Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius, in about 1570. | WIKI |
| The first English captain to visit the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands was Richard Hawkins, in 1593. | WIKI |
| This led to an influx of whaleships to exploit the new whaling ground and the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands became a frequent stop for the whalers both before and after visiting what came to be known as the Offshore Grounds. | WIKI |
| This led to the establishment in the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands of a kind of unofficial "post office" where whaleships stopped to pick up and drop off letters as well as for provisioning and repairing. | WIKI |
| Ecuador annexed the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands on 12 February 1832, naming them the Archipelago of Ecuador. | WIKI |
| [42] Chile was alarmed by the United States plans to establish a Guantanamo-like base in the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands since it would mean that Chile's nitrate-rich northern provinces would be within the range of United States Navy. | WIKI |
| The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) Galxc3xa1pagos Islands Santa Cruz xe2x80x93 swimming in Puerto Ayora | WIKI |
| In July 2010, the World Heritage Committee agreed to remove the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands from its list of precious sites endangered by environmental threats or overuse. | WIKI |
| In 2007, UNESCO put the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands on their List of World Heritage in Danger because of threats posed by invasive species, unbridled tourism and overfishing. | WIKI |
| [60] On 29 July 2010, the World Heritage Committee decided to remove the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands from the list because the Committee found significant progress had been made by Ecuador in addressing these problems. | WIKI |
| On 28 January 2008, Galxc3xa1pagos National Park official Victor Carrion announced 53 sea lions (13 pups, 25 youngsters, 9 males and 6 females) were killed at the Galxc3xa1pagos Islands nature reserve on Pinta, with their heads caved in. | WIKI |
| The Galxc3xa1pagos Islands were short-listed as a candidate to be one of the New7Wonders of Nature by the New7Wonders of Nature Foundation. | WIKI |
| [54][55] Rats have only been eliminated from the smaller Galxc3xa1pagos Islands of Rxc3xa1bida and Pinzxc3xb3n. | WIKI |