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Vangelis - Conquest of Paradise - Galapagos Islands

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Uploaded by on Mar 9, 2011

10 March 2011, it was discovered that 476 of the greatest riches of the world
Galapagos Islands
Vangelis-Conquest of Paradise - Galapagos Islands


The Galapagos Islands were discovered in 1535 by Fray Tomas de Berlanga (1487-1551), then Bishop of Panama. There is a legend that the islands were visited primarily by travelers Incas, but there is no evidence that ...

The islands first appeared on two maps of the sixteenth century, one designed by Mercator (1569) and one by Abraham Ortelius (1570). Were called "Turtle Islands" (insulae de los Galopegos).

In his four years of isolation on the island of Juan Fernandez off the Chilean coast, Alexander Selkirk (the prototype of Robinson Crusoe), visited the Galapagos islands around 1709, with Captain Woodes Rogers ...

The first inhabitant of the Galapagos was an Irishman named Patrick Watkins, left there in 1807. He spent two years planting vegetables and exchanged them for rum with visitors. In 1809, he stole a boat and fled to Guayaquil ...

Galapagos has officially annexed to Ecuador in 1832 and was named "Archipelago del Ecuador." However, its official name is the Colon Archipelago. Who is born on the islands is called galapaguenho (galapagueño

The most famous visitor to the island was the young Charles Robert Darwin, aboard the HMS Beagle "Captain Robert Fitz Roy, in 09/15/1835, remaining until October 20.

Darwin visited only four islands, San Cristobal first, then Floreana, Isabela and Santiago during the five days he spent in these lands, made large collections of plants and animals as well as observations of natural life - which became, later, the basis for developing the theory of evolution ...

Confirming the date in 1935, the post of Ecuador issued a series of six figures on the centenary of Charles Darwin's visit to the Galapagos Islands - considered the first issue on Darwin (Scott: 340/345, Yvert: 332/337 ). Note: Coincidence or not the series (1835-1935) also remembers the 400th anniversary of discovery of the Galapagos ... Respectively, the stamps show:

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  • bellissimo video *****

  • @camia967 Obrigado bom domingo

  • Very very good video my friend !!!

    And great music..

    Greetings Annie..

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  • belíssimo vídeo amigo, muito obrigado por compartilhar.

  • 5*

  • Belo vídeo!!! Lindas imagens!!! Vangelis, amo demais!!! Obrigada, adorei!!!

    Grande abraço!!!

  • great and amazing video!!!

  • Ah, ahora me doy cuenta del video. Muchisimas gracias. Es un video precioso. Me encanta Vangelis, y esta es una des sus grandísimas composiciones. Genial!

    Un abrazo muy grande

    Billy y María

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