{"id":16597,"date":"2024-03-23T02:24:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T20:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16597"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:37:39","slug":"galapagos-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/galapagos-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Galapagos Islands<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Location: It is situated in the\u00a0Pacific Ocean, roughly\u00a0600 miles off the coast of Ecuador.<\/li>\n<li>The Archipelago is a\u00a0group of 19 islands, 13 large and 6 small, and dozens of islets and rocks that cover an area of over 17,000 square miles.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0distributed on either side of the Equator with an underwater wildlife spectacle with abundant life.<\/li>\n<li>Repeated\u00a0volcanic eruptions\u00a0helped to\u00a0form the rugged mountain landscape of the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands.<\/li>\n<li>In comparison with most oceanic archipelagos, the Galapagos are\u00a0very young with the largest, and youngest islands, Isabela and Fernandina, with less than one million years of existence, and the\u00a0oldest islands, Espa\u00f1ola and San Crist\u00f3bal, somewhere between three to five million years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Mount Azul, at 5,541 feet, is the highest point of the Galapagos Islands.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Climate: It is characterized by\u00a0low rainfall, low humidity, and relatively low air and water temperatures.<\/li>\n<li>It is designated as a\u00a0UNESCO World Heritage site in 1978.<\/li>\n<li>Biodiversity:\n<ul>\n<li>The Gal\u00e1pagos are best known for their diverse array of plant and animal species.\u00a0Many species are endemic, as they are\u00a0not found anywhere else in the world.<\/li>\n<li>These include the giant\u00a0Gal\u00e1pagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra), the\u00a0marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), the\u00a0flightless cormorant (Phalacrocoraz harrisi), and the Gal\u00e1pagos penguin.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Gal\u00e1pagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is the\u00a0only penguin species to live in the Northern Hemisphere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?<\/h3>\n<p>A\u00a0<u>World Heritage Site<\/u> (WHS) is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO under the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galapagos Islands is situated in the Pacific Ocean, roughly 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}