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Galapagos Islands
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, designated a World Heritage site in 1978.
The Galapagos Islands are an archipelago in the eastern Pacific Ocean and are administratively a province of Ecuador. Ecuador officially took possession of the islands in 1832. The islands were designated a Galapagos National Park in 1959 and a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1978.1