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Isabela Island
An island that straddles the equator, vast enough to dwarf all its siblings combined, cradling secrets in volcanic silence.
Why Isabela Island stands out
Isabela Island sprawls across 4,586 square kilometers of the Pacific, a titan among the Galápagos that stretches 100 kilometers end to end. Straddling the equator itself, it holds more land than every other island in the archipelago combined, yet remains home to fewer than 2,000 souls.
The geography and story of Isabela Island
This balance of immensity and solitude defines the island's character. Volcanic ridges shape its landscape while vast territories remain untouched, creating pockets of wilderness where time moves differently. Few places on Earth offer such scale paired with such restraint.
Isabela Island's distinctive seahorse shape was formed by the merger of six shield volcanoes over millions of years.
Isabela Island at a glance
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Which Galápagos island's seahorse shape was formed by six shield volcanoes merging over millions of years?
Isabela Island is the only place among the options with the distinctive seahorse shape created by the merger of six shield volcanoes, a unique geological feature that directly identifies it.
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