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Galapagos Islands

LC control no.n 82058890
Descriptive conventionsrda
Geographic headingGalapagos Islands
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Geographic subdivision usageGalapagos Islands
Variant(s)Galápagos (Ecuador : Province)
Archipiélago de Colón
Colón, Archipiélago de
Archipelago of Galápagos
Enchanted Islands
Islas Encantadas
Islas Galápagos
Iye ha-Galapagos
Archipiélago de Colón (Ecuador)
Archipiélago de Galápagos (Ecuador)
Provincia Insular de Galápagos (Ecuador)
Territorio de Galápagos (Ecuador)
Provincia de Galápagos (Ecuador)
Other standard no.Q38095
Q475038
144179675
Associated countryEcuador
Special noteOld catalog heading: Galápagos Islands
Found inNesheim, M. From the hinterlands of Ecuador ... c1981 (subj.) t.p. (Galápagos)
BGN gaz. of conventional names, 1977 (Galapagos Islands (conv); Archipiélago de Colón (Spanish))
Bork, A.W. Hist. dict. of Ecuador, 1973 (Galapagos Islands; officially Archipiélago de Colón; a national territory)
Statesman's yrbk., 1979/80, p. 413 (Archipelago of Galápagos, officially called Colón [in list of provinces])
BGN gaz., Ecuador, 1957 (Archipiélago de Colón, ADMD, 0°30ʹS 90°30ʹW)
Villacrés M., J.W. Las ambiciones internacionales por las Islas Galápagos, 1985.
Ecuador. Comisión de Alto Nivel--Galápagos. Observaciones al Plan Maestro de Desarrollo Social y Conservación de la Provincia de Galápagos 1984 ... 1985.
Me-ʻAni, N. ha-Masaʻ le-Iye ha-Galapagos, c1987.
Censo de los establecimientos comericales ... 1995: t.p. (Provincia de Galápagos, Ecuador)
Wikipedia, August 9, 2021 (Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón, other Spanish name: Las Islas Galápagos); part of the Republic of Ecuador; an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere; located 906 km (563 mi) west of continental Ecuador; Administratively, Galapagos constitutes one of the provinces of Ecuador, made up of three cantons that bear the names of its most populated islands, namely: San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz and Isabela; 0°30ʹS 90°30ʹW)
GEOnet, August 9, 2021 (Galapagos Islands (conventional), Archipiélago de Colón (approved); islands, Ecuador, first-order administrative division: Galápagos, 00°00ʹ00ʺ S, 090°30ʹ00ʺ W (0, -90.5); also Galápagos (approved), Provincia de Galápagos (approved), variants: Archipiélago de Colón; Archipiélago de Galápagos; Provincia Insular de Galápagos; Territorio de Galápagos, first-order administrative division, Ecuador, 00°00ʹ00ʺ S, 090°30ʹ00ʺ W (0, -90.5))
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