Galapagos Islands

See also: Galápagos Islands

English

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Etymology

From Spanish islas Galápagos, first attested as New Latin insulae de los galopegos (“islands of the turtles”) in Abraham Ortelius's 1570 atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, from a variant spelling of Spanish galápago (“turtle”), from Paleo-Hispanic *calappacu (“turtle”). Cf. Catalan calàpet (“toad”) and Portuguese cágado (“turtle”).

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Galapagos Islands

  1. An archipelago off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, famed for their influence on Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

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