Marchena Island
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Marchena Island (Template:Langx) is one of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. It has an area of Script error: No such module "convert". and reaches an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level. The island does not receive visitors, although the surrounding water is used by aquatic divers on organized tours. People generally see the island as they sail around the northern part of Isabela on the way to Genovesa Island.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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Names
Marchena is named in honor of the Spanish monk Antonio de Marchena.[1]
The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley charted the island as Bindlos's Island in 1684, naming it in honor of Robert Byndloss, a chief justice of Jamaica who was related by marriage to Henry Morgan and generally sympathetic to pirates, buccaneers, and privateers.Template:Sfnp Over time, the name frequently became written as Bindlos[2] and Bindloe Island, possibly through confusion with English captains active in the Caribbean and Pacific.Template:Sfnp
Geography
Marchena has an area of Script error: No such module "convert". and reaches an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level.[3] Marchena's nearest neighbor is Genovesa Island, about Script error: No such module "convert". due west.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Like many of the Galápagos volcanos, Marchena has a caldera.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Marchena's caldera is roughly elliptical and measures Script error: No such module "convert"., within the range of caldera sizes of the large western volcanoes.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Marchena's caldera is unusual, however, in that it has been almost completely filled with young lavas, some of which has spilled over and down the sides.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The oldest lava pools go back 500,000 years.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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