Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Galápagos Islands' has mentioned 'Island' in the following places:
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| The mantle plume beneath the east-ward moving Nazca Plate (51xc2xa0km/myr) has given rise to a 3-kilometre-thick platform under the island chain and seamounts. | WIKI |
| Sierra Negra on Isabela Island experienced a 240xc2xa0cm uplift between 1992 and 1998, most recent eruption in 2005, while Fernandina on Fernandina Island indicated an uplift of 90xc2xa0cm, most recent eruption in 2009. | WIKI |
| Alcedo on Isabela Island had an uplift of greater than 90xc2xa0cm, most recent eruption in 1993. | WIKI |
| For instance, Isabela Island includes 6 major volcanoes, Ecuador, Wolf, Darwin, Alcedo, Sierra Negraa and Cerro Azul, with most recent eruptions ranging from 1813 to 2008. | WIKI |
| In April 2009, lava from the volcanic island Fernandina started flowing both towards the island's shoreline and into the center caldera. | WIKI |
| Baltra (South Seymour) Island xe2x80x93 Baltra is a small flat island located near the centre of the Galxc3xa1pagos. | WIKI |
| The island is very arid, and vegetation consists of salt bushes, prickly pear cacti and palo santo trees. | WIKI |
| The second is a ferry dock, which connects Baltra to the island of Santa Cruz. | WIKI |
| This move proved unexpectedly useful when the native iguanas became extinct on Baltra as a result of the island's military occupation in World War II. | 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 |
| This island, and neighbouring Sulivan Bay on Santiago (James) island, are named after lifelong friend of Charles Darwin, Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, who was a lieutenant aboard HMS Beagle. | WIKI |
| This island is one of the few that are home to the Galxc3xa1pagos penguin which is the only wild penguin species to live on the equator. | WIKI |
| The green turtle is another animal that resides on the island. | WIKI |
| Darwin (Culpepper) Island xe2x80x93 This island is named after Charles Darwin. | WIKI |
| Darwin's Arch, a natural rock arch which would at one time have been part of this larger structure, is located less than a kilometre from the main Darwin Island, and it is a landmark well known to the island's few visitors. | WIKI |
| Espaxc3xb1ola (Hood) Island xe2x80x93 Its name was given in honor of Spain. | WIKI |
| Espaxc3xb1ola is the oldest island at around 3.5xc2xa0million years, and the southernmost in the group. | WIKI |
| Some of the birds have attempted to breed on Genovesa (Tower) Island, but unsuccessfully. | WIKI |
| Fernandina (Narborough) Island xe2x80x93 The name was given in honor of King Ferdinand II of Aragon, who sponsored the voyage of Columbus. | WIKI |
| This is the youngest and westernmost island. | WIKI |
| On 13 May 2005, a new, very eruptive process began on this island, when an ash and water vapor cloud rose to a height of 7xc2xa0km (23,000xc2xa0ft) and lava flows descended the slopes of the volcano on the way to the sea. | WIKI |
| The famous flightless cormorants inhabit this island, as do Galxc3xa1pagos penguins, pelicans, Galxc3xa1pagos sea lions and Galxc3xa1pagos fur seals. | WIKI |
| Floreana (Charles or Santa Marxc3xada) Island xe2x80x93 It was named after Juan Josxc3xa9 Flores, the first President of Ecuador, during whose administration the government of Ecuador took possession of the archipelago. | WIKI |
| Flamingos and green sea turtles nest (December to May) on this island. | WIKI |
| Genovesa (Tower) Island xe2x80x93 The name is derived from Genoa, Italy, the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. | WIKI |
| This island is formed by the remaining edge of a large caldera that is submerged. | WIKI |
| Its nickname of "the bird island" is clearly justified. | WIKI |
| Isabela (Albemarle) Island xe2x80x93 This island was named in honor of Queen Isabella I of Castile. | WIKI |
| [18] With an area of 4,640xc2xa0km2 (1,790xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi), it is the largest island of the Galxc3xa1pagos. | WIKI |
| The island's seahorse shape is the product of the merging of six large volcanoes into a single land mass. | WIKI |
| On this island, Galxc3xa1pagos penguins, flightless cormorants, marine iguanas, pelicans and Sally Lightfoot crabs abound. | WIKI |
| The third-largest human settlement of the archipelago, Puerto Villamil, is located at the southeastern tip of the island. | WIKI |
| North Seymour Island in the Galxc3xa1pagos; Daphne Island is in the distance. | WIKI |
| Marchena (Bindloe) Island xe2x80x93 Named after Fray Antonio Marchena, it has an area of 130xc2xa0km2 (50xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) and a maximum altitude of 343xc2xa0m (1,125xc2xa0ft). | WIKI |
| Galapagos hawks and sea lions inhabit this island, and it is home to the Marchena lava lizard, an endemic animal. | WIKI |
| This island is home to a large population of blue-footed boobies and swallow-tailed gulls. | WIKI |
| Pinzxc3xb3n (Duncan) Island xe2x80x93 Named after the Pinzxc3xb3n brothers, captains of the Pinta and Nixc3xb1a caravels, it has an area of 18xc2xa0km2 (6.9xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) and a maximum altitude of 458xc2xa0m (1,503xc2xa0ft). | WIKI |
| Pinta (Louis) Island xe2x80x93 Named after the Pinta caravel, it has an area of 60xc2xa0km2 (23xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) and a maximum altitude of 777xc2xa0m (2,549xc2xa0ft). | WIKI |
| He was moved from Pinta Island to the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island, where scientists attempted to breed from him. | WIKI |
| Rxc3xa1bida (Jervis) Island xe2x80x93 It bears the name of the convent of Rxc3xa1bida, where Columbus left his son during his voyage to the Americas. | WIKI |
| Nine species of finches have been reported in this island. | WIKI |
| San Cristxc3xb3bal (Chatham) Island xe2x80x93 It bears the name of the patron saint of seafarers, "St. Christopher". | WIKI |
| This is the first island in the Galxc3xa1pagos Archipelago Charles Darwin visited during his voyage on the Beagle. | WIKI |
| The capital of the province of Galxc3xa1pagos is Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, which lies at the southern tip of the island, and is close to San Cristxc3xb3bal Airport. | WIKI |
| Santa Cruz (Indefatigable) Island xe2x80x93 Given the name of the Holy Cross in Spanish. | WIKI |
| Santa Fe (Barrington) Island xe2x80x93 Named after a city in Spain, it has an area of 24xc2xa0km2 (9.3xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) and a maximum altitude of 259xc2xa0m (850xc2xa0ft). | WIKI |
| Santiago (San Salvador, James) Island xe2x80x93 Its name is equivalent to Saint James in English; it is also known as San Salvador, after the first island discovered by Columbus in the Caribbean Sea. | WIKI |
| This island has an area of 585xc2xa0km2 (226xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) and a maximum altitude of 907xc2xa0m (2,976xc2xa0ft). | WIKI |
| Wolf (Wenman) Island xe2x80x93 This island was named after the German geologist Theodor Wolf. | WIKI |
| The most famous resident is the vampire finch, which feeds partly on blood pecked from other birds, and is only found on this island. | WIKI |
| Daphne Major xe2x80x93 A small island directly north of Santa Cruz and directly west of Baltra, this very inaccessible island appears, though unnamed, on Ambrose Cowley's 1684 chart. | WIKI |
| South Plaza Island (Plaza Sur) xe2x80x93 It is named in honor of a former president of Ecuador, General Lexc3xb3nidas Plaza. | WIKI |
| Iguanas (land, marine and some hybrids of both species) are abundant, and large numbers of birds can be observed from the cliffs at the southern part of the island, including tropic birds and swallow-tailed gulls. | WIKI |
| Nameless Island xe2x80x93 A small islet used mostly for scuba diving. | WIKI |
| The following table corresponding to the wet 1969 shows the variation of precipitation in different places of Santa Cruz Island: | WIKI |
| The Galxc3xa1pagos tortoise or Galxc3xa1pagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) is the largest living species of tortoise; this one is from the Island of Santa Cruz. | WIKI |
| The first known permanent human resident on Galxc3xa1pagos was Patrick Watkins, an Irish sailor who was marooned on the Island Floreana from 1807 to 1809. | WIKI |
| On what was then known as Charles Island, while most of the crew were hunting tortoises one crewmember, English boatsteerer Thomas Chappel, for reasons still unclear, lit a fire which quickly burned out of control. | WIKI |
| Soon almost the entire island was in flames. | WIKI |
| One crewmember who returned to the Galxc3xa1pagos several years afterward described the entire island as still a blackened wasteland. | WIKI |
| The first governor of Galxc3xa1pagos, General Josxc3xa9 de Villamil, brought a group of convicts to populate the island of Floreana, and in October 1832, some artisans and farmers joined them. | WIKI |
| [33] Darwin noticed the mockingbirds differed between islands, though he thought the birds now known as Darwin's finches were unrelated to each other, and did not bother labelling them by island. | WIKI |
| [34] Nicholas Lawson, acting Governor of Galxc3xa1pagos for the Republic of Equator, met them on Charles Island, and as they walked to the prison colony, Lawson told Darwin the tortoises differed from island to island. | WIKI |
| In April 1888 USSxc2xa0Albatross, a Navy-manned research vessel assigned to the United States Fish Commission, briefly touched eight islands in the Galapagos group for specimens;[37] this included Wreck Bay on Chatham Island (now San Cristxc3xb3bal Island) on 4 April and Charles Island (now Floreana Island) on 8 April. | WIKI |
| In 1897, Antonio Gil began another plantation on Isabela Island. | WIKI |
| [39][40] Chile had previously acquired the Straits of Magellan[41] and Easter Island for strategic reasons and lieutenant Gregorio Santa Cruz argued in 1903 that possessing an island in equatorial waters, like the Galxc3xa1pagos, would be of great benefit since the geopolitical situation of Chile was expected to drastically change when the Panama Canal opened. | WIKI |
| There occurred a series of unsolved disappearances on the island of Floreana in the 1930s among the largely European expatriate residents at the time. | WIKI |
| Today, the island continues as an official Ecuadorian military base. | WIKI |
| The foundations and other remains of the US base can still be seen as one crosses the island. | WIKI |
| In 1946, a penal colony was established on Isabela Island, but it was suspended in 1959. | WIKI |
| The Galxc3xa1pagos became a national park in 1959,[46] and tourism started in the 1960s, imposing several restrictions upon the human population already living on the island. | WIKI |
| In 2006 the Baltra military governed island, was opened up to limited overnight camping. | WIKI |
| Galxc3xa1pagos tortoise on Santa Cruz Island | WIKI |
| CDF's research efforts began with the establishment of the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in 1964. | WIKI |
| Marine iguana, Amblyrhynchus cristatus, the only iguana feeding in the sea Galxc3xa1pagos tortoise (Galxc3xa1pagos giant tortoise), Chelonoidis nigra, known as galxc3xa1pago in Spanish, it gave the name to the islands Galxc3xa1pagos green turtle, Chelonia mydas agassisi, a subspecies of the green turtle Galxc3xa1pagos racer, Pseudalsophis biserialis, an endemic species of snake with two subspecies Sea cucumbers, the cause of environmental battles with fishermen over quotas of this expensive Asian delicacy Flightless cormorant, Phalacrocorax harrisi Great frigatebird and magnificent frigatebird Blue-footed booby, Sula nebouxii, popular among visitors for their large blue feet which they show off in courtship Galxc3xa1pagos penguin, Spheniscus mendiculus, the only living tropical penguin Waved albatross, Phoebastria irrorata, the only living tropical albatross Galxc3xa1pagos hawk, Buteo galapagoensis, the islands' main scavenger (at the top of the food chain) and "environmental police" Four endemic species of Galxc3xa1pagos mockingbirds, the first species Darwin noticed to vary from island to island Thirteen endemic species of tanagers, popularly called Darwin's finches. | WIKI |
| The black rat (Rattus rattus) attacks small Galxc3xa1pagos tortoises when they leave the nest, so in Pinzxc3xb3n they stopped the reproduction for a period of more than 50xc2xa0years; only adults were found on that island. | WIKI |
| Corals and barnacles suffered, hammerhead sharks were driven away, and most of the island's seabirds failed to breed in 1997xe2x80x9398. | WIKI |
| The direct dependence on the sea for much of the islandxe2x80x99s wildlife (e.g. | UNESCO |
| Human settlements are restricted to the remaining 3% in specifically zoned rural and urban areas on four islands (a fifth island only has an airport, tourism dock, fuel containment, and military facilities). | UNESCO |
| Among other issues, it provides the specific legal framework over which many aspects of island life are to be regulated, including provincial planning; inspection and quarantine measures; fisheries management; control and marine monitoring; residency and migration of people to the islands; tourism through a visitor management system, permits and quotas; agriculture; waste management; and xe2x80x9ctotal controlxe2x80x9d of introduced species. | UNESCO |