Photogallery of pictures taken during journeys and expeditions to Galapagos National Park (Ecuador) - Baltra Island.
Baltra Island, or Isla Baltra, is a small island of the Galápagos Islands. Also known as South Seymour (named after Lord Hugh Seymour). Baltra is a small flat island located near the center of the Galápagos. It was created by geological uplift. The island is very arid.
During World War II Baltra was established as a United States Army Air Force base.
Baltra is currently not within the boundaries of the Galapagos National Park. The Galapagos Land Iguana is the subject of an active re-introduction campaign on the island; it became extinct on Baltra in 1954. However, in the early 1930s, Captain G. Allan Hancock had translocated a population of Galapagos Land Iguanas from Baltra to North Seymour Island, a smaller island just a few hundred metres north of Baltra.
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