Genovesa Island, named after the Italian city of Genoa, in honor of Christopher Columbus, is a shield volcano in the Galápagos Islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The island occupies about 14 square kilometres, and its maximum elevation is 64 m. The horse-shoe shaped island has a volcanic
caldera whose wall has collapsed, forming the Great Darwin Bay, surrounded by cliffs. Lake Arcturus, filled with
salt water, lies in the centre, and sediment within this
crater lake is less than 6,000 years old. Although no historical eruptions are known from Genovesa, there are very young
lava flows on the flanks of the volcano.
Prince Philip's Steps is an extraordinary steep path that leads through a
seabird colony full of life, up to cliffs that are 25 metres (82 feet) high. At the top, the trail continues inland, passing more seabird colonies in a thin palo santo forest. The trail also provides overviews of a rocky plain. Storm petrels here are different from any others in the world because they are active during the day. To avoid predators, they only return to their nest holes at night.
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