Guy Fawkes Islands
Native name:
Islas Guy Fawkes
Geography
LocationGalápagos Islands
Coordinates0°30′55.69″S 90°31′37.90″W / 0.5154694°S 90.5271944°W / -0.5154694; -90.5271944
Administration
Ecuador
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Guy Fawkes Island (Spanish: Isla Guy Fawkes), properly the Guy Fawkes Islands (Islas Guy Fawkes), is an island group composed of two crescent-shaped isletsNorth Guy Fawkes I. (I. Guy Fawkes Norte) and South Guy Fawkes I. (I. Guy Fawkes Sud)and two rocks located northwest of Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos Archipelago in Ecuador.[1] The group is uninhabited but sometimes visited by scuba divers.[2]

William Beebe visited the islands and makes mention of them in his book Galapagos: World's End. He described the cliffsmade of stratified layers of volcanic tuffas majestic and also noted a population of sea lions.[3]

The island is perhaps best known for its name, honoring the English Catholic revolutionary Guy Fawkes, who attempted to blow up Parliament in 1605.[4][5]

References

Citations

  1. "Topography and Landforms of Ecuador" (PDF). Geology.er.usgs.gov. 24 October 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2008.
  2. "Islas Galápagos Underwater Photography Gallery". RamblinCameras.com. 24 October 2007.
  3. Beebe & al. (1988).
  4. "Island Names and Their Derivations". Galapagos.to. 24 October 2007. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007.
  5. "Transplanted Englishman brings countryís Guy Fawkes party tradition to Burnsville". ThisWeek-Online.com. 24 October 2007.

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