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Galapagos

noun

A group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life. Synonym: Galapagos Islands.

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... inviolable resolution of our national policy, that no foreign state should henceforth acquire a coaling position within three thousand miles of San Francisco,—a distance which includes the Hawaiian and Galapagos islands and the coast of Central America. For fuel is the life of modern naval war; it is the food of the ship; without it the modern monsters of the deep die of inanition. Around it, therefore, cluster some of the most important ...

— The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future • A. T. Mahan

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... in Madeira is a greater difficulty than seemed to me allowed for. I could cite passages where you show that variations are superinduced from the new circumstances of new colonists, which would require some Madeira birds, like those of the Galapagos, to be peculiar. There has been ample time in the case ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin

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Words linked to "Galapagos" : island, Ecuador, Republic of Ecuador