Isla Guy Fawkes

Isla Guy Fawkes

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image size = 100px
name = Isla Guy Fawkes
location = Galápagos Islands
country = Ecuador
area =
population as of =
population = Uninhabited
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Isla Guy Fawkes (also known as Guy Fawkes Island) is a collection of two crescent shaped islands and two small rocks north-west of Santa Cruz Island, in the Galápagos Islands, which are part of Ecuador. [cite news|url=http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eespteam/terrainmodeling/images/large/ecuador_srtm_low.pdf|publisher=Geology.er.usgs.gov|title=Topography and Landforms of Ecuador|date=24 October 2007] It is uninhabited, but known to be used by scuba divers who amongst other things view the underwater zoanthids near it. [cite news|url=http://www.ramblincameras.com/Isgal8.htm|publisher=RamblinCameras.com|title=Islas Galápagos Underwater Photography Gallery|date=24 October 2007]

William Beebe visited the islands and makes mention of them in his book "Galapagos: World's End", he described the cliffs as majestic and made of stratified layers of volcanic tuff. He also noted a population of sealions. [cite book
last = Beebe
first = William
authorlink = William Beebe
title =Galapagos: World's End
publisher =Dover Publications
url =http://www.amazon.com/Galapagos-Worlds-End-William-Beebe/dp/0486256421
isbn = 978-0486256429]

The island is perhaps best known and most noted for its name; which is derived from a controversial historical English figure. [cite news|url=http://www.galapagos.to/NOTES-2.HTM|publisher=Galapagos.to|title=Island Names and Their Derivations|date=24 October 2007] Guy Fawkes, the man it is named after was a Roman Catholic revolutionary who had attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. [cite news|url=http://www.thisweek-online.com/2005/September/30bonfire.html|publisher=ThisWeek-Online.com|title=Transplanted Englishman brings countryís Guy Fawkes party tradition to Burnsville|date=24 October 2007]

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* [http://www.tageo.com/index-e-ec-v-01-d-m1372726.htm Satellite view of Isla Guy Fawkes]


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