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B. The islands are located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, 605 miles off the coast of Ecuador.
B. Darwin was the naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle during its voyage of discovery from 1831 to 1836. After returning to Great Britain, studied his findings more than 20 years before publishing On the Origin of Species in 1859.
A. Ecuador claimed ownership of the Galapagos Islands in 1832, just two years after it became an independent republic and made Quito its capital.
D. Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world, lies in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. Unesco said illegal logging of the island's tropical rainforests was seriously threatening many animal species found nowhere else in the world.