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Floreana
Floreana Island (Spanish: ''Isla Floreana'') is an island of the Galápagos Islands. It was named after Juan José Flores, the first president of Ecuador, during whose administration the government of Ecuador took possession of the archipelago. It was previously called Charles Island (after King Charles II of England), and Santa María after one of the caravels of Columbus. The island has an area of . It was formed by volcanic eruption. The island's highest point is Cerro Pajas at , which is also the highest point of the volcano like most of the smaller islands of Galápagos. History Since the 19th century, whalers kept a wooden barrel at Post Office Bay, so that mail could be picked up and delivered to their destination by ships on their way home, mainly to Europe and the United States. Cards and letters are still placed in the barrel without any postage. Visitors sift through the letters and cards in order to deliver them by hand. Due to its relatively flat surface, supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Floreana Island (Spanish: ''Isla Floreana'') is an island of the Galápagos Islands. It was named after Juan José Flores, the first president of Ecuador, during whose administration the government of Ecuador took possession of the archipelago. It was previously called Charles Island (after King Charles II of England), and Santa María after one of the caravels of Columbus. The island has an area of . It was formed by volcanic eruption. The island's highest point is Cerro Pajas at , which is also the highest point of the volcano like most of the smaller islands of Galápagos. History Since the 19th century, whalers kept a wooden barrel at Post Office Bay, so that mail could be picked up and delivered to their destination by ships on their way home, mainly to Europe and the United States. Cards and letters are still placed in the barrel without any postage. Visitors sift through the letters and cards in order to deliver them by hand. Due to its relatively flat surface, suppl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (Spanish: , , ) are an archipelago of volcanic islands. They are distributed on each side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, and are part of the Republic of Ecuador. Located west of continental Ecuador, the islands are known for their large number of endemic species that were studied by Charles Darwin during the second voyage of HMS ''Beagle''. His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. The Galápagos Islands and their surrounding waters form the Galápagos Province of Ecuador, the Galápagos National Park, and the Galápagos Marine Reserve. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of slightly over 25,000. The first recorded visit to the islands happened by chance in 1535, when Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the Bishop of Panamá, was surprised to find this undiscovered land on a vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerro Pajas
Cerro Pajas (also known as Cerro Paja or Cerro de pajasDavid William Steadman (1982"Fossil birds, reptiles, and mammals from Isla Floreana, Galapagos Archipelago" PhD thesis, University of Arizona.) is an inactive volcano located in the south of Floreana Island in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. It is the highest peak on Floreana, with a maximum elevation of 640 meters above sea level.Michael Dvorak, Erwin Nemeth, Beate Wendelin, Patricio Herrera, Denis Mosquera, David Anchundia, Christian Sevilla, Sabine Tebbich & Birgit Fessl (2017)"Conservation status of landbirds on Floreana: the smallest inhabited Galápagos Island" ''Journal of Field Ornithology'', 88(2): 132-145. Wildlife The area around the Cerro Pajas crater contains the largest expanse of highland ''Scalesia pedunculata'' forest on the island, providing important habitat for multiple species of Darwin's finches, including the critically endangered medium tree finch.Jody A. O'Connor, Frank J. Sulloway & Sonia Kleindorfer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margret Wittmer
Margret Wittmer (1904-2000) was one of the original settlers of Floreana Island. She was born in Cologne on 12 July 1904. Margret, her husband Heinz, and her stepson Harry moved to Floreana Island in 1932, following the arrival of German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his wife, Dore Strauch. Margret was in the fourth month of her first pregnancy, and she gave birth to a son and a daughter while living on the island. She wrote about her experiences of being an early settler in the book ''Floreana: A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos''. She returned to Germany in 1960 to present her book Margret’s book attracted more German tourists to Floreana Island. She built several bungalows to host different tourists and scientists that visited Floreana. Actress Diane Kruger Diane Kruger ( Heidkrüger; ; born 15 July 1976) is a German and American actress. Early in her career, Kruger gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival. Kru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essex (1799 Whaleship)
''Essex'' was an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. In 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific Ocean under the command of Captain George Pollard Jr., the ship was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale. Thousands of miles from the coast of South America with little food and water, the 20-man crew was forced to make for land in the ship's surviving whaleboats. The men suffered severe dehydration, starvation, and exposure on the open ocean, and the survivors eventually resorted to eating the bodies of the crewmen who had died. When that proved insufficient, members of the crew drew lots to determine whom they would sacrifice so that the others could live. Seven crew members were cannibalized before the last of the eight survivors were rescued, more than three months after the sinking of the ''Essex''. First mate Owen Chase and cabin boy Thomas Nickerson later wrote accounts of the ordeal. The tragedy attracted international attention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Voyage Of HMS Beagle
The second voyage of HMS ''Beagle'', from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS ''Beagle'', under captain Robert FitzRoy who had taken over command of the ship on its first voyage after the previous captain, Pringle Stokes, committed suicide. FitzRoy had thought of the advantages of having someone onboard who could investigate geology, and sought a naturalist to accompany them as a supernumerary. At the age of 22, the graduate Charles Darwin hoped to see the tropics before becoming a parson and accepted the opportunity. He was greatly influenced by reading Charles Lyell's ''Principles of Geology'' during the voyage. By the end of the expedition, Darwin had made his name as a geologist and fossil collector and the publication of his journal (later known as ''The Voyage of the Beagle'') gave him wide renown as a writer. ''Beagle'' sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, and then carried out detailed hydrographic surveys around the coasts of south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Galapagos Affair
''The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden'' is a 2013 feature-length documentary directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine. It is about a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos island of Floreana in the 1930s among the largely European expatriate residents at the time. The voice cast includes Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Josh Radnor and Gustaf Skarsgård. It features the 1934 silent film ''The Empress of Floreana'' in its entirety, but the four-minute short is split into halves. Cast (voices) * Cate Blanchett as Dore Strauch *Sebastian Koch as Heinz Wittmer *Thomas Kretschmann as Friedrich Ritter *Diane Kruger as Margret Wittmer *Connie Nielsen as Baroness Von Wagner *Josh Radnor as John Garth *Gustaf Skarsgård as Rolf Blomberg Release The film premiered at the 40th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2013. It was an official selection of the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 12, 2013, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galápagos Province
Galápagos () is a province of Ecuador in the country's Insular region, located approximately off the western coast of the mainland. The capital is Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. The province administers the Galápagos Islands, a group of tiny volcanic islands that sit on the equator, famous for their unique biodiversity popularized by naturalist Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. Demographics Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: *Mestizo 74.5% *White 9.7% *Indigenous 7.0% *Afro-Ecuadorian 5.2% * Montubio 1.9% *Other 1.7% History It is estimated that the islands were formed 8 million years ago as a result of tectonic activity on the seabed. The archipelago was likely inhabited long ago: the explorer Thor Heyerdahl in 1963 reported that he found Inca archaeological sites and objects. The Galapagos Islands were discovered by chance on 10 March 1535, when the Dominican friar Fray Tomas de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama, went to Peru in pursuance of an order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristóbal Canton
San Cristóbal Canton is a canton of Ecuador in the Galápagos Islands archipelago and one of the oldest in this insular geological formation. It consists of Española, Floreana, Genovesa, San Cristóbal, and Santa Fe Islands. History Manuel Julián Cobos, a cruel and despotic man, founded a sugar cane plantation and sugar refinery shortly after 1869. Hoff, Stein. Drømmen om Galapagos: Manuel J. Cobos. 14-Oct-2010. He built a fortune after the sugar production and contributed to the San Cristobal settlement. He took the produce to sell in . In 1904, the workers, who were tired of abuse from their master, revolted and killed him. The revolting workers were in fact inmates that were placed initially under Antonio Gil Quezada's or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Lawson
Nicholas Oliver Lawson (born Nicolai Olaus Lossius; 23 November 1790 – 1 March 1851) was a Norwegian-born, vice governor of Galápagos for the Republic of Ecuador. While there, he provided information which contributed to Charles Darwin's first realisation that species might be changeable, and eventually to Darwin's theorising about evolution. Life and interaction with Darwin Nicolai Olaus Lossius was born on the island of Sekken in Romsdal, Norway. He was baptized in Veøy Church outside Molde in Romsdal during late 1790. At 16, he went to sea where he sailed from England. As Nicholas Oliver Lawson, he took citizenship in the United States in 1811. He participated as a naval officer in the War of 1812 and later settled in Canada. By 1818, he had joined the Chilean Navy and fought in the Chilean War of Independence (1810–1821). In 1824, he married Rosario Asenjo (b. 1807) daughter of an officer in the Spanish Army. He operated as a ship builder, owner and trader. He was d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcus
Barcus (; eu, Barkoxe) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France in the former province of Soule. The inhabitants of the commune are known in French as ''Barcusiens'' or ''Barcusiennes'' and in Basque as ''Barkoxtar''.Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque language Geography Location Barcus is located in the ''Massif des Arbailles'' in the former province of some 25 km south by south-east of Sauveterre-de-Béar ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloise Wagner De Bosquet
Eloise may refer to: *Eloise (given name) Places * Éloise, a commune in south-eastern France * Lake Eloise, Florida, United States Film and television * '' Eloïse's Lover'', a 2009 Spanish film released domestically as ''Eloïse'' * ''Eloise'' (2016 film), an American thriller * '' Eloise: The Animated Series'', a 2006 animated TV comedy series * "Eloise" (''The Sopranos''), an episode of the TV series ''The Sopranos'' * "Eloise" (''Playhouse 90''), a 1956 television play on the series ''Playhouse 90'' * Eloise Hawking, a character on the TV series ''Lost'' Literature * ''Eloise'' (books), a 1950s book series by Kay Thompson ** ''Eloise'' (1955 book), the first of the ''Eloise'' series of children's books * Eloise Drew, a character in the Nancy Drew mystery series * Eloise Midgen, a character in the Harry Potter universe * Eloise Pritchart, a character in David Weber's Honorverse series of novels Music * Eloise of Lord T & Eloise, a crunk rap group from Memphis, Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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