Floreana Island Vocabulary

Vocabulary terms and key proper nouns from the text about Floreana Island.

Wittmer Lodge Hotel

The only hotel on Floreana Island, located on a black, sandy beach.

Cormorant Point

A beach on Floreana Island known for its green sand.

Floreana Island

A 67 square kilometre island in the Galapagos Islands, located 906 kilometres west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean.

Charles Island

The original name of Floreana Island, named after King Charles II of England.

Juan José Flores

The first president of Ecuador, after whom Floreana Island was renamed.

Patrick Watkins

An Irish man who lived on Floreana Island from 1807 to 1809 and was the first Galapagos resident.

Cerro Pajas

The highest point of Floreana Island's only volcano, standing at 640 metres.

Puerto Velasco Ibarra

The port town on Floreana Island where approximately seventy of the island's hundred residents live.

Margret Wittmer

The second person to settle on Floreana Island, who arrived in 1932 while pregnant, lived to age 95, and opened a hotel.

Rolf Wittmer

The son of Margret Wittmer and the first person born in the Galapagos.

Santa Cruz island

The island from which a boat comes to Floreana Island approximately every two weeks.