Galapagos Islands, Ecuador South America..گالاپاگوز جزائر، ایکواڈور جنوبی امریکہ.
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The islands are located in the eastern Pacific Ocean,
973 km (525 nmi 605 mi) off the west coast of South
America. The closest land mass is that of mainland
Ecuador, the country to which they belong, 926
km/500 nmi to the east.
Straddling the equator, islands in the chain are
located in both the northern and southern
hemispheres, with Volcan Wolf and Volcan
Ecuador on Isla Isabela being directly on the
equator. Espanola Island, the southernmost islet
of the archipelago, and Darwin Island, the northernmost one, are spread out over a distance
of 220 km (137 mi). The International Hydrographic
Organization (IHO) considers them wholly within the
South Pacific Ocean, however.[3] The Galápagos
Archipelago consists of 7,880 km2 (3,040 sq mi) of
land spread over 45,000 km2 (17,000 sq mi) of
ocean.
The largest of the islands, Isabela, measures
2,250 sq mi/5,827 km2[4] and makes up close
to three-quarters of the total land area of the
Galapagos.
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