Key facts
- Location
- Southeast of Darwin Island , Galápagos Islands , Ecuador
- Archipelago
- Galápagos Islands
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stack
- Country
- Ecuador
- Located in
- Galápagos Province
- Elevation
- 18
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Darwinarch.jpg
- Height
- 18
Show 3 more facts
- located in/on physical feature
- Darwin Island
- Commons category
- Darwin's Arch
- native label
- Darwin's Arch
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Encyclopedic overview
Darwin's Arch (Spanish: Arco de Darwin) was a natural rock arch feature to the south-east of Darwin Island in the Galápagos Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, and is now a pillar formation. The arch sat on an irregularly shaped, rocky, submerged plateau, nicknamed "the theatre". The arch collapsed into the sea on 17 May 2021 from natural erosion.
Darwin's Arch, along with the nearby Darwin Island, was named after English naturalist Charles Darwin, whose studies in the surrounding area helped him to form his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. As a tribute to Darwin and his works, some locals and industry professionals have nicknamed the remaining stone "towers" the Pillars of Evolution (Spanish: Los Pilares de la Evolución).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Darwin's Arch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.