Galapagos Islands - Bartolomé
In the Pacific Ocean, some 604 miles from Ecuador, is an archipelago of twenty-six islands. Full of hundreds of endemic species, it's one of the world's greatest natural sanctuaries. Read on to find out more about the truly unique Galapagos Islands...
Bartolomé
This inhospitable volcanic island is peppered with lava bombs, cinder cones and bizarre creatures adapted to inhospitable environs. Galapagos penguins, brightly coloured sally light-foot crabs and Lava Herons gather around the base of Pinnacle Rock - an eroded tuff cone.
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