It is the largest island in the Santa Cruz island chain, part of the Solomon Islands nation.

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It was triggered by a magnitude 8.0 quake under the sea and flattened several villages on the western coast of Santa Cruz Island.

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Take an optional tour of the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island, where you can observe scientists from all over the world conducting biological research.

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An earlier aftershock damaged roads in Lata, a town on the Santa Cruz Island in the far east of the Pacific nation, which was badly hit by the waves.

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For example, as of 2009, the Santa Cruz Island fox population had rebounded to 700 from fewer than 100, according to The Nature Conservancy, one of the landowners on the island.

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He was living in a volcanic field on Santa Cruz island 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, where you couldn't find a decent bagel if you tried: in fact, a place a lot like Washington.

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The ship docked at the island's port of Santa Cruz in the morning, after arriving there from the neighboring island of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

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On the island of Santa Cruz, Drs Fessl and Tebbich found that 97% of the endemic finch nests they looked at were affected by the parasite Philornis downsi.

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