GALAPAGOS ISLANDS.
ECUADOR WILL NOT PART WITH THEM. By Tdesraplj-Prcss Associalion-Conyrieht [ L Guayaquil, January 30. Owing to the people's' opposition, the Ecuador Government will not proceed with the negotiations for the transfer of the. Galapagos Islands to the United State?, which was anxious .to aenuire the group a.s a base in the Pacific for protection of the Panama Canal. The\Gnlapagos Islands nre a group in the Pacific Ocean off.the coast of Ecuador, South America. The group consists of five principal and eight small islands, ttio largest being 60 . miios in length and 15 miles in breadth. The group was discolored by the Spaniards in tlio sixteenth century. All the islands are entirely composed of volcanic basalts, and there are up to 2000 craters of extinct volcanoes. Tho coasts are frequented by turtles of enormous size. In 1832 tho islands were taken possession of by Ecuador, and small plantations have b«m formed on five of them. Tho area of the wholo of tho group is 2930 square miles.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1040, 1 February 1911, Page 5
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