The Galapagos Islands (also known as the Cologne Islands) belong to Ecuador and are famous for their unique biological species that maintain their original features. Known as the "living Museum of Biological Evolution", it was listed as a World Heritage site in 1979. With a total area of 7882 square kilometers, the archipelago consists of Isabella, the largest island, four smaller islands, and 14 small islands with a total area of more than 1 square kilometer. there are many reefs and reefs. The highest point of the archipelago is the Wolf volcano on Isabella Island, which is 1707 meters above sea level. The Galapagos Islands were formed by huge undersea volcanic eruptions four or five million years ago and rose to the surface more than a million years ago. Until now, volcanic eruptions on the island still occur from time to time, and the volcanoes on Isabella and Fernandi, the westernmost island of the archipelago, have not stopped, with the most recent two eruptions in 1995 and 1998. The volcano here is not high, but the area is very large. A volcano no more than one kilometer above sea level can reach 20 kilometers in diameter. The location of the archipelago is extremely special, at the confluence of cold and warm ocean currents, where the Peruvian cold current from the south and the equatorial warm current from the north meet. The marine life here is rich in unusual, cold and warm.
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