Bob
26th May 2015, 01:05
(Source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/galapagos/11629286/Galapagos-volcano-erupts-for-first-time-in-30-years.html))
Wondering why I was researching the Ecuador volcanoes yesterday... now I know..
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A volcano in the Galapagos Islands erupted for the first time in more than 30 years on Monday, spilling streams of bright orange lava and raising fears for the world's only colony of pink iguanas.
The Galapagos National Park warned on Twitter that Isabela Island, where Wolf Volcano erupted at dawn, holds "the world's only population" of the critically endangered Conolophus marthae, also known as the Galapagos rosy iguana.
Pictures released by the park show bright lava streaming down the volcano as a puff of smoke rises into the air and tongues of fire dart from the crater.
"The eruption generated a very large column of smoke that rose more than six miles into the air, and later drifted toward the southwest part of the volcano," said Sandro Vaca of Ecuador's Geophysics Institute.
"However, there has been no effect on residents."
The island's inhabitants live in Puerto Villamil, some 70 miles (117km) south of the volcano.
Mr Vaca said the volcano's activity could continue for several days, potentially causing further lava flows.
Wolf Volcano last erupted in 1982.
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Sabela Island is the largest in the Galapagos, the Ecuadoran archipelago made famous by Charles Darwin's studies of its breathtaking biodiversity, which was crucial in his development of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
The chain of 13 islands and 17 islets, which sits about 1,000km off the coast of Ecuador, is one of the most volcanically active regions in the world.
Isabela island, which strides the equator, also has four other volcanoes: Darwin, Alcedo, Cerro Azul and Sierra Negra.
Wondering why I was researching the Ecuador volcanoes yesterday... now I know..
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03317/Galapagos-National_3317445b.jpg
A volcano in the Galapagos Islands erupted for the first time in more than 30 years on Monday, spilling streams of bright orange lava and raising fears for the world's only colony of pink iguanas.
The Galapagos National Park warned on Twitter that Isabela Island, where Wolf Volcano erupted at dawn, holds "the world's only population" of the critically endangered Conolophus marthae, also known as the Galapagos rosy iguana.
Pictures released by the park show bright lava streaming down the volcano as a puff of smoke rises into the air and tongues of fire dart from the crater.
"The eruption generated a very large column of smoke that rose more than six miles into the air, and later drifted toward the southwest part of the volcano," said Sandro Vaca of Ecuador's Geophysics Institute.
"However, there has been no effect on residents."
The island's inhabitants live in Puerto Villamil, some 70 miles (117km) south of the volcano.
Mr Vaca said the volcano's activity could continue for several days, potentially causing further lava flows.
Wolf Volcano last erupted in 1982.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03317/Galapagos-National_3317442b.jpg
Sabela Island is the largest in the Galapagos, the Ecuadoran archipelago made famous by Charles Darwin's studies of its breathtaking biodiversity, which was crucial in his development of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
The chain of 13 islands and 17 islets, which sits about 1,000km off the coast of Ecuador, is one of the most volcanically active regions in the world.
Isabela island, which strides the equator, also has four other volcanoes: Darwin, Alcedo, Cerro Azul and Sierra Negra.