Isla Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes Island (), properly the Guy Fawkes Islands (), is an island group composed of two crescent-shaped isletsNorth Guy Fawkes I. () and South Guy Fawkes I. ()and two rocks located northwest of Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos Archipelago in Ecuador. The group is uninhabited but sometimes visited by scuba divers. William Beebe visited the islands and makes mention of them in his book Galapagos: World's End. He described the cliffsmade of stratified layers of volcanic tuffas majestic and also noted a population of sea lions. The island is perhaps best known for its name, honoring the English Catholic revolutionary Guy Fawkes, who attempted to blow up Parliament in 1605. Gallery

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Satellite view of Isla Guy Fawkes

Islands of the Galápagos Islands
Uninhabited islands of Ecuador
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