galapagos animals postcard

From top left (clockwise): Galápagos penguin, Galápagos sea lion, Sally Lightfoot crab, Greater flamingo, Marine iguana, Galápagos tortoise. The Galápagos Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, is a province of Ecuador, lying about 1,000km off its coast, and considered one of the world's foremost destinations for wildlife-viewing. Its isolated terrain shelters a diversity of plant and animal species, many found nowhere else. Charles Darwin visited in 1835, and his observation of Galápagos' species later inspired his theory of evolution.