Galápagos · Ecuador

Floreana

Post Office Bay and the Galápagos Affair.

Population
About 100 (recent)
Wittmers arrive
1932

Then

  1. 1793

    Captain James Colnett names it King Charles Island.

  2. 1800s

    Whalers start leaving mail in a barrel at Post Office Bay.

  3. 1932

    The Wittmer family settles here. Their descendants still run the hotel.

Now

Bred hybrids of the extinct Floreana giant tortoise are being released here.

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