William Ambrosia Cowley was a 17th-century English buccaneer who surveyed the Galápagos Islands during his circumnavigation of the world, and published the first chart of the islands in 1684.
It is found in much of the warm or tropical areas of the world, including northern Australia, the Galápagos Islands, Hawaii, the Antilles, and South America.
In the novel, he chooses (fictitious) Resolution Island, in the Galápagos Islands.
The Gardens were also the home for over 100 years for 'Harriet', a tortoise reportedly collected by Charles Darwin during his visit to the Galápagos Islands in 1835 and donated to the Gardens in 1860 by John Clements Wickham, former commander of the HMS Beagle and later 'Government Resident' for Moreton Bay.
His fifth major expedition was on the schooner Pioneer in 1941 to the Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galapagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific Islands.
Jonathan Weiner (born 1953 in New York) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment.
After Sadatoshi Tainaka, the original drummer, left the band to live on the Galápagos Islands, Hirasawa was the sole remaining and still active founding member.
:Los Hermanos is also the name of a group of four small islands in the Galápagos Islands.
However, she agrees to move forward with the engagement party which is to be held at sea in a luxurious yacht near the Galápagos Islands.
Supporters have usually identified the islands with the Galápagos Islands.
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There the unit transitioned onto Boeing B-17E Flying Fortresses and, following familiarization with the much larger and complex aircraft, were almost immediately tasked with antisubmarine patrols duties between Guatemala City and the Galapagos Islands, the third-longest patrol route ever assigned any unit of the Air Corps to that time.
It has been collected in a number of locations in western Ecuador and in the Galápagos Islands, and in the nearby Tumbes Province of Peru.
The distribution of Chiton magnificus ranges from the Galapagos Islands at the equator, to Cape Horn at 55° South: Chile, Haida Gwaii, Ecuador, Peru.
His articles included first-person reports on such activities as bicycling in Bali, hiking to Mount Everest, whitewater rafting in Papua New Guinea, and natural history cruising in the Galapagos Islands.
These credits are earned through several means: Job shadowing in a technical, scientific, or medical field; documented and researched exploration trips to places such as Alaska, the Galapagos Islands, The Grand Canyon, Colorado, Peru, and Belize; scientific lectures; short day trips to scientific laboratories or companies; college visits; attending approved lectures on scientific topics; and approved student-proposed explorations that are relevant to scientific fields.
The Cortez rainbow wrasse , Thalassoma lucasanum, is a species of wrasse native to the eastern Pacific Ocean from Baja California to Peru, as well as around the Galapagos Islands.
The Galapagos catshark is known only from waters around several of the Galapagos Islands, including San Cristobal Island, Darwin Island, Marchena Island and Fernandina Island.
The term is a reference to similar phenomena Charles Darwin encountered in the Galápagos Islands, with its isolated flora and fauna, which were key observations in the development of Evolutionary Theory.
In the Central and South Pacific, colonies are found on most islands Groups from Wake Island to the Galapagos Islands to New Caledonia with a few pairs nesting on Australian possessions in the Coral Sea.
The Jessica was an oil tanker that was involved in an oil spill in the Galápagos Islands, a chain of islands 972 km (525 nmi) west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part.
The 88.5 m, 96 passenger Sun Bay was launched in 2001 and was originally operated by Sun Bay Cruises in the Bahamas before being transferred to Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and is currently operated by their Celebrity Cruises division as Celebrity Xpedition in the Galapagos Islands
It is found only on Fernandina in the Galápagos Islands (part of Ecuador), which it shares with N. indefessus narboroughi.
Nesoryzomys indefessus narboroughi is a subspecies of Nesoryzomys indefessus, a rodent in the genus Nesoryzomys, from Fernandina Island in the Galápagos Islands.
This is similar to what Charles Darwin discovered with species he collected from different islands in the Galápagos, a discovery that played a major role in his theory of natural selection.
Pinta Island, also known as Abingdon Island, after the Earl of Abingdon, is an island located in the Galapagos Islands group, Ecuador.
Filmed in high definition video, Sharkwater explores the densest shark populations in the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption of the shark-hunting industry in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
The spotted houndshark, Triakis maculata, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae found on the continental shelves in the eastern Pacific from the Galapagos Islands and Peru to northern Chile, between latitudes 0° and 30° S.
Her journeys included trips to the Galapagos Islands, South America, Mexico, Hawaii, Mount St. Helens, Iguaca Falls, Turkey, Iceland, Ecuador, parts of Asia, and the Danube and Rhine Grand Circle in Europe.