Genovesa Island
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| Geography | |
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| Location | Galápagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Archipelago | Galápagos Islands |
| Highest elevation | 64 m (210 ft) |
| Administration | |
| Province | Galápagos Province |
| Canton | San Cristóbal |
| Parish | Santa María |
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Genovesa Island (Template:Langx), also known as Tower Island, is a shield volcano in the Galápagos Islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean.[1] The island occupies about 14 km2 (5 sq mi), and its maximum elevation is 64 m (210 ft).[citation needed] The horse-shoe shaped island has a volcanic caldera whose wall has collapsed, forming the Great Darwin Bay, surrounded by cliffs.[2] The saltwater Lake Arcturus lies in the middle, and sediment within this crater lake is less than 6,000 years old. Although no historical eruptions are known from Genovesa, there are very young lava flows on the flanks of the volcano.
Names
Genovesa is Spanish for "Genovese", named after the Italian city of Genoa in honor of its native son Christopher Columbus. The name was adopted in 1892 as part of Ecuador's celebration of the quadricentennial of Columbus's first voyage. It was previously known as Quita Sueño,[3] Spanish for "Nightmare Island".Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley charted it as Eures's Island in 1684, which later became EureLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. or Eures Island[4] The origin of this name is uncertain, with two suggestions being William Ewres of Jamaica and Ralph Eure, 8th Baron Eure.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
The name Tower Island is believed to be a corruption of Lt. John Downes, an American serving on the frigate Essex who recorded the island's position in 1813 during the War of 1812. The name Dowers's Island appeared in 1815, presumably in misspelled reference to Downes, and—after passing through Dowers's, Dowers, and Tower's—it was finally written as Tower on an Admiralty chart in 1841.[a]
The island is also sometimes known as Bird Island, from its large and varied colonies.[citation needed]
Wildlife
There are an abundance of frigatebirds on Genovesa Island and it is among the best place in the archipelago to see red-footed boobies, Nazca boobies, swallow-tailed gulls, storm petrels, tropicbirds, Darwin's finches, and Galápagos mockingbirds.
Prince Philip's Steps is an extraordinary steep path that leads through a seabird colony full of life, up to cliffs that are 25 metres (82 feet) high. At the top, the trail continues inland, passing more seabird colonies in a thin Script error: No such module "Lang". forest. The trail also provides overviews of a rocky plain. Storm petrels here are different from any others in the world because they are active during the day. To avoid predators, they only return to their nest holes at night.
The smallest marine iguana in the archipelago lives here.
Recreation
In Darwin Bay there is the possibility to either dive along the inner wall or go to the outer wall, which is less protected. Another possibility is to dive from the outside of the volcano through the channel into the caldera.
See also
Notes
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References
Citations
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Genovesa". Galapagos Conservancy. galapagos.org. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hike the Northern Islands – Genovesa Island in Galapagos". santacruzgalapagoscruise.com. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.De la Fuente, Vicente (1744), Nueva y Correcta Carta del Mar Pacifico ó del Sur... [New and Improved Map of the Pacific or Southern Sea] (in español), Madrid.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kitchin, Thomas (1797), "South America", Kitchin's General Atlas..., London: Laurie & Whittle.
Bibliography
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Beebe, Charles William; et al. (1988), Galápagos: World's End, Mineola: Dover Publications, ISBN 978-0-486-25642-9.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McEwen, Alec (July 1988), "The English Place-Names of the Galápagos", The Geographical Journal, vol. 154, London: Royal Geographical Society, pp. 234–242, doi:10.2307/633849, JSTOR 633849.
External links
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