Floreana Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Island in Ecuador's Galapagos Archipelago
About Floreana
Floreana island is in the far southern portion of the archipelago. The island has a total area of 173 km² (67 sq mi), and its highest point, at 640 m (2100 feet), is a now-extinct volcano. Floreana has been inhabited the longest of any of the Galapagos islands, having been used as a water and food source by whalers and pirates as far back as the 1600s. As a result of human disturbance the wildlife of the island has been vastly disrupted, with the native giant tortoise now completely extinct and introduced rats, pigs and goats having decimated the native plants and birds. The human history of the islands includes caves and shelters used by early buccaneers, as well as the first official settler of the Galapagos, an Irishman named Patrick Watkins who was stranded in 1803 and then settled
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