15 Islands You Should Add to Your Bucket List
| September 18, 2017
11. Galapagos Islands – Ecuador
The Galapagos Islands lie nearly 1,000 km west of Ecuador in an area with plenty of volcanic activity. Between 1961 and 2011, the nine active volcanoes erupted 24 times. There are roughly 25,000 people living there, but there’s evidence it was inhabited by Inca and pre-Inca civilizations.
The islands also became famous as they are the place where Charles Darwin observed the different birds and tortoises, which helped in developing his groundbreaking theory of natural selection. He eventually wrote the book On the Origin of Species.
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