The Committee also decided to remove the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) from this List.

UNESCO: Brasilia Field Office News Archive

The World Heritage Committee also added four sites to the List of World Heritage in Danger, and removed the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) from this List.

UNESCO: 21 New World Heritage Sites Inscribed

The Galapagos -- 19 islands that lie 600 miles west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean -- are home to species of animals found nowhere else on Earth.

CNN: Close encounters in the Galapagos

An isolated archipelago, the Galapagos are set in the Pacific Ocean more than 500 miles west of Ecuador .

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