Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz is the most important island in the Galapagos Islands archipelago, in Ecuador. It contains the largest town in the Galapagos Islands, Puerto Ayora, which is the only location on the island with tourist infrastructure, on the southern side of the island, and is connected by road and ferry to the airport on Baltra Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Galápagos Islands
- Also known as: “Chavez I.”, “Chávez I.”, “Chavez Is.”, “Chávez Is.”, “Chavez Island”, “Chávez Island”, “Duke of Norfolk”, “Duke of Norfolk I.”, “Duke of Norfolk Is.”, “Duke of Norfolk Island”, “Duke of Norfolk’s I.”, “Duke of Norfolk’s Is.”, “Duke of Norfolk’s Island”, “I Sta Cruz”, “I. Chavez”, “I. Chávez”, “I. Indefatigable”, “I. Norfolk”, “I. S. Clemente”, “I. San Clemente”, “I. Santa Cruz”, “I. Sta. Cruz”, “Indefatigable”, “Indefatigable I.”, “Indefatigable Is.”, “Indefatigable Island”, “Isla Chaves”, “Isla Chavez”, “Isla Chávez”, “Isla S. Clemente”, “Isla San Clemente”, “Isla Santa Cruz”, “Isla Santa Cruz Indefatigable”, “Norfolk”, “Norfolk I.”, “Norfolk Is.”, “Norfolk Island”, “S. Clemente”, “S. Clemente I.”, “S. Clemente Is.”, “S. Clemente Island”, “San Clemente”, “San Clemente I.”, “San Clemente Is.”, “San Clemente Island”, “Santa Cruz I.”, “Santa Cruz Is.”, “Santa Cruz Island”, “Sta Cruz”, “Sta Cruz I”, “Sta Cruz Is”, “Sta Cruz Island”, “Sta. Cruz”, “Sta. Cruz I.”, “Sta. Cruz Is.”, and “Sta. Cruz Island”
Santa Cruz
- Category: landform
- Location: Galápagos, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Santa Cruz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة سانتا كروز”
- Armenian: “Սանտա Կրուս կղզի”
- Asturian: “Isla Santa Cruz”
- Asturian: “Islla Santa Cruz”
- Basque: “Santa Cruz uhartea (Galapagoak)”
- Basque: “Santa Cruz uhartea”
- Breton: “Santa Cruz”
- Bulgarian: “Санта Крус”
- Catalan: “Santa Cruz”
- Cebuano: “Isla Santa Cruz (pulo sa Ecuador)”
- Cebuano: “Isla Santa Cruz”
- Chinese: “圣克鲁斯岛”
- Chinese: “聖克魯斯島”
- Chuvash: “Санта-Крус”
- Czech: “Santa Cruz”
- Dutch: “Santa Cruz”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Santa Cruz”
- Estonian: “Santa Cruzi saar”
- Finnish: “Santa Cruz”
- French: “Île Indefatigable”
- French: “île Norfolk”
- French: “île Santa Cruz”
- French: “Île Santa Cruz”
- French: “Indefatigable”
- French: “Isla Santa Cruz”
- French: “Santa Cruz”
- Galician: “Illa Santa Cruz, Galápagos”
- German: “Santa Cruz”
- Hebrew: “סנטה קרוס”
- Hindi: “सांताक्रूज़”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Santa Cruz (Galápagos)”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Santa Cruz”
- Italian: “Isola Santa Cruz”
- Italian: “Santa Cruz”
- Japanese: “サンタ・クルス島”
- Korean: “산타크루스섬”
- Korean: “산타크루즈 섬”
- Lithuanian: “Santa Kruso sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Cruz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Santa Cruz”
- Norwegian: “Santa Cruz”
- Persian: “جزیره سانتا کروز، گالاپاگوس”
- Polish: “Santa Cruz”
- Portuguese: “Cantão de Santa Cruz”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Indefatigable”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Santa Cruz”
- Portuguese: “Santa Cruz”
- Quechua: “Santa Krus wat’a”
- Russian: “Санта-Крус (Галапагосские острова)”
- Russian: “Санта-Крус”
- Slovak: “Santa Cruz (ostrov)”
- Slovak: “Santa Cruz”
- Slovenian: “Santa Cruz”
- Spanish: “Chávez”
- Spanish: “I. Chávez”
- Spanish: “I. S. Clemente”
- Spanish: “I. San Clemente”
- Spanish: “I. Santa Cruz”
- Spanish: “I. Sta. Cruz”
- Spanish: “Isla Chávez”
- Spanish: “Isla S. Clemente”
- Spanish: “Isla San Clemente”
- Spanish: “Isla Santa Cruz”
- Spanish: “S. Clemente”
- Spanish: “San Clemente”
- Spanish: “Santa Cruz”
- Spanish: “Sta. Cruz”
- Spanish: “Y. S. Clemente”
- Spanish: “Y. San Clemente”
- Spanish: “Ya. S. Clemente”
- Spanish: “Ya. San Clemente”
- Spanish: “Ysla San Clemente”
- Swedish: “Santa Cruz”
- Ukrainian: “острів Індефатігебль”
- Ukrainian: “острів Індефатіґебль”
- Ukrainian: “острів Санта-Крус”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Крус”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Santa Cruz”
- Western Mari: “Санта-Крус”
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