Guy Fawkes Islands | |
Native Name: | Islas Guy Fawkes |
Location: | Galápagos Islands |
Country: | Ecuador |
Coordinates: | -0.5155°N -90.5272°W |
Population: | Uninhabited |
Guy Fawkes Island (Spanish; Castilian: Isla Guy Fawkes), properly the Guy Fawkes Islands (Spanish; Castilian: Islas Guy Fawkes), is an island group composed of two crescent-shaped isletsNorth Guy Fawkes I. (Spanish; Castilian: I. Guy Fawkes Norte) and South Guy Fawkes I. (Spanish; Castilian: I. Guy Fawkes Sud)and two rocks located northwest of Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos Archipelago in Ecuador.[1] The group is uninhabited but sometimes visited by scuba divers.[2]
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.[3] [4]