Isla Guy Fawkes
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| Location | Galápagos Islands |
| Coordinates | 0°30′55.69″S 90°31′37.90″W / 0.5154694°S 90.527194°WCoordinates: 0°30′55.69″S 90°31′37.90″W / 0.5154694°S 90.527194°W |
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Ecuador
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| Population | Uninhabited |
Isla Guy Fawkes (also known as Guy Fawkes Island) is a collection of two crescent shaped islands and two small rocks north-west of Santa Cruz Island, in the Galápagos Islands, which are part of Ecuador.[1] It is uninhabited, but known to be used by scuba divers who amongst other things view the underwater zoanthids near it.[2]
William Beebe visited the islands and makes mention of them in his book Galapagos: World's End, he described the cliffs as majestic and made of stratified layers of volcanic tuff. He also noted a population of sealions.[3]
The island is perhaps best known and most noted for its name; which is derived from a controversial historical English figure.[4] Guy Fawkes, the man it is named after was a Roman Catholic revolutionary who had attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ "Topography and Landforms of Ecuador". Geology.er.usgs.gov. 24 October 2007. http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eespteam/terrainmodeling/images/large/ecuador_srtm_low.pdf.
- ^ "Islas Galápagos Underwater Photography Gallery". RamblinCameras.com. 24 October 2007. http://www.ramblincameras.com/Isgal8.htm.
- ^ Beebe, William. Galapagos: World's End. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486256429. http://www.amazon.com/Galapagos-Worlds-End-William-Beebe/dp/0486256421.
- ^ "Island Names and Their Derivations". Galapagos.to. 24 October 2007. http://www.galapagos.to/NOTES-2.HTM.
- ^ "Transplanted Englishman brings countryís Guy Fawkes party tradition to Burnsville". ThisWeek-Online.com. 24 October 2007. http://www.thisweek-online.com/2005/September/30bonfire.html.
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