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Destination Galapagos: Fernandina
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Galapagos: Fernandina Island

Spanish Isla Fernandina, formerly Narborough Island, one of the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 600 mi (965 km) west of Ecuador. Third largest of the islands, with an area of 245 sq mi (635 sq km), it is separated from Isabela Island by the Bolívar Strait. Its relief is dominated by a single volcanic crater (3,720 feet [1,134 m]), still intensely active. It is without human population.

Located on the west side of Isabela, it is the most western island in the Galápagos archipelago. This is one of the largest still-pristine islands in the world with no introduced species up to date. Its volcano is still very active and very new in age. Its youth is evident in its lack of signs of erosion and bareness of vegetation. From the sea it looms like a large, rounded shadow.

The immense shield of Volcano Fernandina provides an impressive backdrop for Punta Espinosa, a narrow spit of sand and lava rock extending from the base of the volcano into the sea. Flightless cormorants build their nests on the point and Galapagos hawks fly overhead. Punta Espinosa is also visited to see the black lava rock, mangroves, a variety of herons, yellow warblers, pelicans, frigates, the mangrove finch, petrels, shearwaters and the large population of marine iguanas. Marine iguanas are the only known lizards to have adapted themselves to a life dependent on the sea, feeding on the green algae and seaweed several feet below the water's surface.

You find them only in the Galapagos and Fernandina holds the largest colony. With its dark and rocky shores, black sand beaches, and frequent volcanic eruptions Fernandina seems in many ways the most forbidding and yet the most fascinating of the Galapagos islands.

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