Crossword-Solution: GALAPAGOS
We have 14 clues for the answer “GALAPAGOS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Darwin hangout | 1 answer |
| Darwin stopping point, with "the" | 1 answer |
| Equatorial Pacific archipelago | 1 answer |
| Island group giant tortoises | 1 answer |
| Island group that's home to the blue-footed booby | 1 answer |
| Islands known for giant tortoises | 1 answer |
| Islands off Ecuador | 1 answer |
| Islands visited by Darwin | 1 answer |
| Islands whose ecology are being threatened by an oil spill | 1 answer |
| Islands with giant tortoises | 1 answer |
| Name of an archipelago, or a novel | 1 answer |
| Pacific islands, off Ecuador. | 1 answer |
| Setting for Melville's "The Encantadas" | 1 answer |
| Vonnegut work | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
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greedy person
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Sentences with GALAPAGOS (5)
Captain Colnett remarks, that this appearance is very common among the Galapagos Islands, and that the directions of the bands indicate that of the currents; in the described case, however, the line was caused by the wind.
How surprising it is that any creatures should be able to exist in brine, and that they should be crawling among crystals of sulphate of soda and lime! And what becomes of these worms when, during the long summer, the surface is hardened into a solid layer of salt? Flamingoes in considerable numbers inhabit this lake, and breed here, throughout Patagonia, in Northern Chile, and at the Galapagos Islands, I met with these birds wherever there were lakes of brine.
The volcanic island of Fernando Noronha, placed in many respects under nearly similar conditions, is the only other country where I have seen a vegetation at all like this of the Galapagos Islands.
There is one small lizard belonging to a South American genus, and two species (and probably more) of the Amblyrhynchus--a genus confined to the Galapagos Islands.
There can be little doubt that this tortoise is an aboriginal inhabitant of the Galapagos; for it is found on all, or nearly all, the islands, even on some of the smaller ones where there is no water; had it been an imported species, this would hardly have been the case in a group which has been so little frequented.
Quotes with GALAPAGOS (3)
As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, she would be stopped mid-sentence for five seconds by a doubt which, if expressed in words, might have come out something like this: "Maybe I'm just a crazy lady who had wandered off the street and into this classroom and started explaining the mysteries of life to these people. And they believe me, although I am utterly mistaken about simply everything." She had to wonder, too, about all the suppo…
In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne’s lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean sky, struggle toward accommodation with an elementary desire for material comfort…because so many regard this archipelago as preeminently a terrain of the mind and spirit, a locus of biological thought and psychological rejuvenation. The sheer strength of …
Life on earth survives thanks to diversity, says Sekunda, because changing circumstances means today's winners can suddenly become tomorrow's losers. When the meteor hits, when the Green Revolution fails, when the bees unexpectedly die, the kind of anomalous diversity found in the Galapagos Islands — or in the technology of Japan — is exactly what will save us from the most dangerous failure of all: global success.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, TIME, Universal.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1960–2022).