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Visible about 10km to the west of Baltra and Seymour, DAPHNE MAYOR (the larger of the two Daphnes) is composed of a tuff cone embedded with two craters. Since the early 1970s it's been the focus of research into Darwin's finches by two British scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, who have weighed, ringed, measured and photographed every finch on the island - about 25,000 altogether. Only small yachts are allowed to call at the islands, and even then only a limited number of times per year. The dry landing is quite hairy, involving a leap onto a cliff, from where a slender trail leads up to the rim of the island; here you can gaze down into the craters. Colonies of blue-footed boobies nest here in the furnace heat of these natural cauldrons, and red-billed tropicbirds tenant the crevices in the cliff walls.
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