Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Galápagos Islands' has mentioned 'Equator' in the following places:
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| The Galxc3xa1pagos Islands (official name: Archipixc3xa9lago de Colxc3xb3n, other Spanish name: Las Islas Galxc3xa1pagos, Spanish pronunciation:xc2xa0[las xcbx88islas xc9xa3axcbx88lapaxc9xa3os], local pronunciation:xc2xa0[laz xcbx88ihlah xc9xa3axcbx88lapaxc9xa3oh]), part of the Republic of Ecuador, are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere. | WIKI |
| Straddling the equator, islands in the chain are located in both the northern and southern hemispheres, with Volcxc3xa1n Wolf and Volcxc3xa1n Ecuador on Isla Isabela being directly on the equator. | WIKI |
| This island is one of the few that are home to the Galxc3xa1pagos penguin which is the only wild penguin species to live on the equator. | WIKI |
| Although the islands are located on the equator, the Humboldt Current brings cold water to them, causing frequent drizzles during most of the year. | WIKI |
| In 1818 the Nantucket whaleship Globe, under Captain George Washington Gardner, discovered a "mother lode" of sperm whales some thousand miles west of the South American coast approximately at the equator. | WIKI |
| [34] Nicholas Lawson, acting Governor of Galxc3xa1pagos for the Republic of Equator, met them on Charles Island, and as they walked to the prison colony, Lawson told Darwin the tortoises differed from island to island. | WIKI |