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HeGalápagos Islands(official name : Archipiélago de Colón, otherSpanishname : Islas Galápagos, Spanish pronunciation : [ˈizlaz ɣaˈlapaɣos]) are anarchipelagoofvolcanic islandsdistributed on either side of theEquatorin the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of theWestern Hemisphere, 906km (563mi) west of continentalEcuador, of which they are a part.

The Galápagos Islands and their surrounding waters form theGalápagos Provinceof Ecuador, theGalápagos National Park, and theGalápagos Marine Reserve.

The principal language on the islands is Spanish.

The islands have a population of slightly over 25, 000.

[1]The islands are famed for their vast number ofendemic speciesand were studied byCharles Darwinduringthe voyage of theBeagle.

His observations and collections contributed to theinception of Darwin's theoryofevolutionbynatural selection.

The first recorded visit to the islands happened by chance in 1535, whenFray Tomás de Berlanga, theBishop of Panamá, was blown off course during a voyage toPeruto arbitrate in a dispute betweenFrancisco PizarroandDiego de Almagro.

De Berlanga eventually returned to the Spanish Empire and described the conditions of the islands and the animals that inhabited them.

The group of islands was shown and named inAbraham Ortelius's atlas published in 1570.

The first crude map of the islands was made in 1684 by thebuccaneerAmbrose Cowley, who named the individual islands after some of his fellowpiratesor after British royalty and noblemen.

These names were used in the authoritativenavigation chartsof the islands prepared during theBeaglesurvey under captainRobert Fitzroy, and in Darwin's popular bookThe Voyage of the Beagle.

The new Republic of Ecuador took the islands from Spanish ownership in 1832, and subsequently gave them official Spanish names.

[2]The older names remained in use in English language publications, includingHerman Melville'sThe Encantadasof 1854.