Galápagos · Ecuador
Baltra
The Galápagos gateway, built as a wartime airbase.
- Iguanas reintroduced
- 1990s
Then
- 1930s
Land iguanas are moved to North Seymour ahead of the US base.
- WWII
The US builds Seymour Airport.
- 1954
Baltra's own iguanas die out. They are brought back in the 1990s.
Now
Seymour Airport is still an Ecuadorian Air Force base, and the only one in the islands with overnight facilities for planes.