Size:

• 60 square kilometers or about 23 square miles
  
  

Geographic features include:

• Northernmost of the Galápagos Islands


• Rocky, rugged landscape


• Lots of black volcanic rock


• Original home of Lonesome George: the last living tortoise of the Geochelone
  nigra abingdoni species. It is possible other tortoises may still live on
  this rocky island.
  
  

Plants include:

• Brushy thickets


• Cacti

Animals include:

• Fur seals


• Marine iguanas


• Sparrow hawks


• Split-tailed gulls


• Swallow-tailed gulls


• Goats


• Pigs


• Donkeys
  
  

(Photo: © Mark Kurz of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)