The Galapagos Islands archipelago has been known by many different names, including the "Enchanted Islands" because of the way in which the strong and swift currents made navigation difficult.


The buccaneer Ambrose Cowley did the first crude navigation chart of the islands in 1684, and in those charts he named the islands after some of his fellow pirates or after the English noblemen who helped the pirates cause.

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