Academy Bay (Santa Cruz, Galápagos)
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| Academy Bay Bahía de la Academia |
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 View from Las Grietas over the Academy Bay |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Land mass | South America | |
| Geographical location | 0 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 90 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Islands | Santa Cruz (Galápagos) | |
The Academy Bay ( Spanish Bahía de la Academia ) is a bay at the southern end of the island of Santa Cruz , which belongs to the Galapagos Islands and is located in the eastern Pacific about 965 km west of mainland Ecuador .
The bay got its name in 1905 from an expedition of the California Academy of Sciences . It is the seat of the Charles Darwin Research Station , which was founded in 1959 to study the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Today it also serves as a port for small ships.
In 1906 the stranded Norwegian crew of the crashed ship Alexandra was rescued from Academy Bay .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Academy Bay. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved May 31, 2019 .