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Galapagos Islands


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  • Codes

    • pogg---
  • Variants

    • 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)
  • Additional Information

    • Descriptor

        Provinces
    • Descriptor

        Archipelagoes
    • Associated Locale

        Ecuador
  • Identified By

    • Identified By

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        • Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

        • Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

        • Sources

          • found: Nesheim, M. From the hinterlands of Ecuador ... c1981 (subj.)t.p. (Galápagos)
          • found: BGN gaz. of conventional names, 1977(Galapagos Islands (conv); Archipiélago de Colón (Spanish))
          • found: Bork, A.W. Hist. dict. of Ecuador, 1973(Galapagos Islands; officially Archipiélago de Colón; a national territory)
          • found: Statesman's yrbk., 1979/80,p. 413 (Archipelago of Galápagos, officially called Colón [in list of provinces])
          • found: BGN gaz., Ecuador, 1957(Archipiélago de Colón, ADMD, 0°30ʹS 90°30ʹW)
          • found: Villacrés M., J.W. Las ambiciones internacionales por las Islas Galápagos, 1985.
          • found: Ecuador. Comisión de Alto Nivel--Galápagos. Observaciones al Plan Maestro de Desarrollo Social y Conservación de la Provincia de Galápagos 1984 ... 1985.
          • found: Me-ʻAni, N. ha-Masaʻ le-Iye ha-Galapagos, c1987.
          • found: Censo de los establecimientos comericales ... 1995:t.p. (Provincia de Galápagos, Ecuador)
          • found: 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)
          • found: 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))
        • Editorial Notes

          • [Old catalog heading: Galápagos Islands]
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        • Change Notes

          • 1982-06-08: new
          • 2021-08-11: revised
        • Alternate Formats