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The Galapagos Islands are a group of thirteen large islands and many small ones. They are about 600 miles west of the Ecuadorian coast. They consist of volcanoes on an east -west fracture zone, they rise 3,000 m from the sea bed and many of rise 1,800 m or more above sea level. The wild life that has evolved on these islands has no natural fear of man. This allows close observation of the animals and birds that would be impossible elsewhere in the world.
