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Floreana Island (Spanish: Isla Floreana) is a southern island in Ecuador's Galápagos Archipelago. The island has an area of 173 km 2 (67 sq mi). It was formed by volcanic eruption. The island's highest point is Cerro Pajas at 640 m (2,100 ft), which is also the highest point of the volcano like most of the smaller islands of Galápagos. The ...
This is a very inconspicuous species and hard to identify, so much that it is only known from its collection of types. [1] The only specimens were collected in 1934 at Post Office Bay by Floreana Island in the Galápagos Islands, and the species is considered endemic to the area. [2]
The Post Barrel on Floreana Island, formerly used by sailors to pass messages to any passing ships Floreana (Charles or Santa María) Island – It was named after Juan José Flores , the first President of Ecuador , during whose administration the government of Ecuador took possession of the archipelago.
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden is a 2013 feature-length documentary directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine. It is about a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos island of Floreana in the 1930s among the largely European expatriate residents at the time.
Topographic map of Española Gardner Bay Highly colored individual of the venustissimus subspecies endemic to Española and Floreana Islands. Española or Espanola Island (Spanish: Isla Española) is the most southerly of the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador, about a 10 to 12-hour trip by boat from Santa Cruz.
Papakōlea Beach (also known as Green Sand Beach or Mahana Beach [1]) is a green sand beach located near South Point, in the Kaʻū district of the island of Hawaiʻi. It is one of only four green sand beaches in the world, the others being Talofofo Beach, Guam; Punta Cormorant on Floreana Island in the Galapagos Islands; and Hornindalsvatnet ...
The company was sold to railroad company CSX, which combined it with its hotel resort The Greenbrier. In 1986, CSX sold the brand, and the original hotel companies were dispersed, though The Greenbrier remained. In 1999, the RockResorts brand was acquired by Olympus Hospitality, [1] and later acquired by Vail Resorts in 2001. [2]
Montage expanded the resort's square footage, adding a suite-only hotel with 50 units and 56 Montage branded residencies. [9] The resort's rebrand and remodel cost an estimated $15 million, and Montage Kapalua Bay was officially opened in June 2014. The resort contains beach access near Kapalua Bay, and a Pegge Hopper art collection. [23]