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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 ...
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.
Wittmer, her husband Heinz, and her stepson Harry moved to Floreana Island in 1932, following the arrival of German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his wife, Dore Strauch. . Wittmer was in the fourth month of her first pregnancy, and she gave birth to a son and a daughter while living on the i
The crew chose to visit Floreana because of the rumors that surrounded the island's only two inhabitants, a German diaspora couple Dr. Friedrich Ritter and Dore Strauch, who immediately befriended them to the point where the crew wanted to return every few months with gifts of provisions for their hosts. [2]
Asilo de la Paz (English: Haven of Peace [1]) is a location on Floreana Island in the Galapagos archipelago. It is the site of Floreana's first human settlement, [1] and is now among the island's most popular tourist attractions. [2] The site has a maximum elevation of 450 meters above sea level. [3] Rock labyrinth at Asilo de la Paz
Patrick Watkins was an Irish sailor who was marooned on Floreana, an island of the Galápagos Islands, from 1805 to 1809. [1] He is the first known permanent resident of the Galapagos. [ 2 ]
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 ...
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