Galapagos, Ecuador
More on the Galapagos, I hear you cry?
The human history of the islands is pretty sad. Their first recorded discovery was in 1535 by a Spanish monk, whoose expedition got caught in the currents I outlined before. They were nearly starving and had no water, when they reached land. At the time, the monk was on his way back to Spain to report to the King on how the conquests were progressing! After the discovery, the islands were used by whalers, traders and pirate...