Santa Fe Island
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Santa Fe Island, also known as Barrington Island, is a small island of 24 square kilometres which lies in the middle of the Galápagos Archipelago in Ecuador. Visitor access is by a wet landing in Barr
Isla Santa Fe as seen from Playa el Garrapatero, Isla Santa Cruz
Prickly pear cactus and swallow-tailed gulls on Santa Fe Island
Galápagos tortoise
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The Galápagos tortoise, also called the Galápagos giant tortoise, is a very large species of tortoise in the genus Chelonoidis. The species comprises 15 subspecies. It is the largest living species of
Santa Fe Island
…Barrington Bay, occasionally hindering access to the two trails leading from the beach. The island used to have its own, so far undescribed, species of Galápagos tortoise, the endemic Santa Fe tortoise, which became extinct in the mid 19th century because of overexploitation by whalers and settlers. For over 150 years…
Galapagos giant tortoise Geochelone elephantopus
Engraving of giant tortoises of the Galápagos Islands, from "The Royal Natural History" (1896).
C. n. abingdonii Lonesome George at the Charles Darwin Research Station, in 2006
Intermediate (C. n. chathamensis)