Thumbnails: 1 - Booby birds | 2 - Other birds | 3 - Marine iguanas, Sally Lightfoot | 4 - Tortoises | 5 - Seals | 6 - Landscapes

Pinnacle Rock in the background with a small sunken volcanic crater in the fore-ground, more evidence of the activity that built the Galapagos Islands from the "Galapagos Hotspot" under the Nazca oceanic plate as it allowed lava to break through cracks in the earth's crust to reach the surface.

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