Profiles for 111 cities, towns and other populated places in Bergen County New Jersey. Incorporated Places have an asterisk (*).
The GalÃ¡pagos Islands (official name: ArchipiÃ©lago de ColÃ³n, other Spanish name: Islas GalÃ¡pagos, Spanish pronunciation: [Ëizlaz É£aËlapaÉ£os]) are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, 906 km (563 mi) west of continental Ecuador, of which ...
The Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is a penguin endemic to the Galapagos Islands. It is the only penguin that lives north of the equator in the wild. It can survive due to the cool temperatures resulting from the Humboldt Current and cool waters from great depths brought up by the Cromwell Current.