Imagine Puerto Ayora without fishing and tourist boats and that concrete albatross [foreground], and you get a picture of the pristine South American islands Charles Darwin visited in 1835. But the picture has since been developed.
—From “Galápagos: Paradise in Peril,” April 1999, National Geographic magazine
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Attributes of Splat tag that caused error: VALUE --> select XPED_URL, GALLERY_NAME as place_name from GALLERY where GALLERY_ID = '<%PLACE_ID%>' CATEGORY --> DB TYPE --> TMPL_LOOP NAME --> XPEDITIONS
