Galapagos Islands

See also: Galápagos Islands

English

Galapagos Islands

Alternative forms

• Galápagos Islands

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish galápago (“turtle, tortoise”).

Proper noun

Galapagos Islands

1. An archipelago off the coast of Ecuador, in the Pacific Ocean, home to many endemic species.

Translations

the archipelago

• Catalan: illes Galápagos f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加拉帕戈斯群島／加拉帕戈斯群岛 (zh), 加拉帕戈斯群岛 (zh) (Jiālāpàgēsī Qúndǎo), 科隆群島／科隆群岛, 科隆群岛 (Kēlóng Qúndǎo)

• Czech: Galapágy
• Estonian: Galápagose Saared pl
• Finnish: Galápagossaaret pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: Νησιά Γκαλαπάγκος n pl (Nisiá Gkalapágkos)
• Polish: Galapagos (pl)
• Romanian: Insulele Galapagos
• Russian: Галапаго́сские острова́ (ru) m pl (Galapagósskije ostrová)
• Spanish: islas Galápagos f pl

Further reading

• Galápagos Islands on Wikipedia.Wikipedia