This island is home to frigate birds<\/a>, Galapagos sea lions<\/a>, giant tortoises<\/a>, giant sea turtles<\/a>, blue footed booby birds <\/a> and red footed booby birds<\/a>, tropicbirds<\/a>, marine iguanas<\/a>, dolphins<\/a> and swallow-tailed gulls<\/a>. In the waters nearby are sharks<\/a>, rays<\/a>, and lobsters.<\/p>\n Its vegetation includes Calandrinia galapagos, Lecocarpus darwinii and trees such as Lignum vitae and Matazarna.<\/p>\n The largest fresh water lake in the archipelago, Laguna El Junco, is located in the highlands of San Cristobal in the southern half of the island. The lake harbours a large population of birdlife, but reaching the lake requires a short uphill walk. Nearby, La Galapaguera is a breeding station and sanctuary for giant tortoises<\/a>.<\/p>\n The capital of the province of Galapagos, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, lies at the southern tip of the island.<\/p>\n The town of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno includes the Cerro Tijeretas, a nesting colony for Frigate birds<\/a> and a statue of Charles Darwin, marking the original site where he first disembarked in the Galapagos Islands during the voyage of the ‘Beagle’. La Loberia, a colony of sea lions<\/a>, lies about ten minutes by bus from the town.<\/p>\n Local boat tours takes you to two popular nearby dive sites. ‘Kicker Rock’ (the Spanish name is ‘L\u00e9on Dormido’) represents the remains of a lava cone, now split in two. ‘Isla Lobos’ (sea lion<\/a> island) is also a nesting site for blue-footed booby birds. <\/a><\/p>\n More Galapagos islands:<\/p>\n Baltra (South Seymour)<\/a> San Crist\u00f3bal Island (Chatham), Galapagos San Cristobal (Chatham) is the easternmost island in the Galapagos archipelago, and one of the oldest geologically. It bears the name of the Patron Saint of seafarers, ‘St. Christopher’. Its English name was given after William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. It has an area of 558 square kilometres (215 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalcorner.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalcorner.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalcorner.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalcorner.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalcorner.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalcorner.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalcorner.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalcorner.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalcorner.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/animalcorner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/is_sancrist.jpg\")
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\nDaphne Major<\/a>
\nDarwin (Culpepper)<\/a>
\nEspanola (Hood)<\/a>
\nFernandina (Narborough)<\/a>
\nFloreana (Charles or Santa Mar\u00eda)<\/a>
\nGenovesa Island (Tower)<\/a>
\nIsabela (Albemarle)<\/a>
\nMarchena (Bindloe)<\/a>
\nNorth Seymour<\/a>
\nPinta (Abingdon)<\/a>
\nPinzon (Duncan)<\/a>
\nRabida (Jervis)<\/a>
\nSan Cristobal (Chatham)<\/a>
\nSanta Cruz (Indefatigable)<\/a>
\nSanta Fe (Barrington)<\/a>
\nSantiago (San Salvador, James)<\/a>
\nSouth Plaza<\/a>
\nWolf (Wenman)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"