Galapagos Islands
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Galapagos Islands
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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. Cf. Catalan calàpet (“toad”) and Portuguese cágado (“turtle”).
proper noun Galápagos Islands · Galapagos · Galápagos · Galapago Islands
- 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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name Ecuadorian archipelago
| Español | islas Galápagos, Archipiélago de Colón, Archipiélago de la Ecuador, Archipiélago de Ecuador |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | ガラパゴス諸島 Garapagosu Shotō |
| 中文 | 加拉帕戈斯群島 /加拉帕戈斯群岛 Jiālāpàgēsī Qúndǎo, 科隆群島 /科隆群岛 Kēlóng Qúndǎo |
| Português | ilhas Galápagos |
| Français | îles Galápagos |
| Deutsch | Galapagosinseln |
| Italiano | Galapagos |
| Ελληνικά | Νησιά Γκαλαπάγκος Nisiá Gkalapágkos |
| Română | Insulele Galapagos |
| Русский | Галапаго́сские острова́ Galapagósskije ostrová |
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title = {Galapagos Islands},
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