Galápagos · Ecuador
Floreana
Post Office Bay and the Galápagos Affair.
- Population
- About 100 (recent)
- Wittmers arrive
- 1932
Then
- 1793
Captain James Colnett names it King Charles Island.
- 1800s
Whalers start leaving mail in a barrel at Post Office Bay.
- 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.