Isla Guy Fawkes

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Isla Guy Fawkes
Geography
Location Galápagos Islands


Administration
Flag of Ecuador Ecuador
Demographics
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] Gallery

View from Santa Cruz
The Islands
The rocks

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Topography and Landforms of Ecuador", Geology.er.usgs.gov, 24 October 2007. 
  2. ^ "Islas Galápagos Underwater Photography Gallery", RamblinCameras.com, 24 October 2007. 
  3. ^ Beebe, William. Galapagos: World's End. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486256429. 
  4. ^ "Island Names and Their Derivations", Galapagos.to, 24 October 2007. 
  5. ^ "Transplanted Englishman brings countryís Guy Fawkes party tradition to Burnsville", ThisWeek-Online.com, 24 October 2007. 

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