Furthermore, the Galapagos Hotspot is at the northern boundary of the Pacific Large Low Shear Velocity Province while the Easter Hotspot is on the southern boundary.
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16 Facts About Galapagos
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Galapagos Archipelago is characterized by numerous contemporaneous volcanoes, some with plume magma sources, others from the asthenosphere, possibly due to the young and thin oceanic crust.
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Additional characteristics of the Galapagos Archipelago are closer volcano spacing, smaller volcano sizes, and larger calderas.
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The Galapagos's shape is due to the pattern of radial and circumferential fissure, radial on the flanks, but circumferential near the caldera summits.
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In late June 2018, Sierra Negra, one of five volcanoes on Isabela and one of the most active in the Galapagos archipelago, began erupting for the first time since 2005.
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Oceanic Pacific islands in the same general area as Galapagos were all uninhabited when discovered by Europeans, with nothing to indicate any prehistoric human activity.
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European discovery of the Galapagos Islands occurred when Spaniard Fray Tomas de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, sailed to Peru to settle a dispute between Francisco Pizarro and his lieutenants.
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In 1793, James Colnett described the flora and fauna of Galapagos, and suggested the islands could be used as base for the whalers operating in the Pacific Ocean.
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Galapagos drew the first accurate navigation charts of the islands.
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Galapagos returned to Nantucket in 1820 with more than 2000 barrels of sperm whale oil and the news of his discovery.
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Galapagos ruled his plantation with an iron hand, which led to his assassination in 1904.
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Chile had previously acquired the Straits of Magellan and Easter Island for strategic reasons and lieutenant Gregorio Santa Cruz argued in 1903 that possessing an island in equatorial waters, like the Galapagos, would be of great benefit since the geopolitical situation of Chile was expected to drastically change when the Panama Canal opened.
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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden is a 2013 feature-length documentary film about the same.
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Galapagos became a national park in 1959, and tourism started in the 1960s, imposing several restrictions upon the human population already living on the island.
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Options for air travel to the Galapagos are limited to two islands: San Cristobal and Baltra.
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Galapagos Islands were short-listed as a candidate to be one of the New7Wonders of Nature by the New7Wonders of Nature Foundation.
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