Española Island

Española, Spanish for "Little Spain", is named for Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea owing to its discovery by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage.

[2] However, the British captain James Colnett later misunderstood Cowley's maps and accidentally transferred that name to what is now Floreana Island.

[3] Located at the extreme southeast of the archipelago, it is considered to be one of the oldest of the islands, having first formed approximately four million years ago.

[citation needed] Its large bays, however, have soft sand and attract Galápagos sea lions.

A major draw is the waved albatrosses since, from March to January, almost the entire world population breeds on the island.

Topographic map of Española
Gardner Bay
Highly colored individual of the venustissimus subspecies endemic to Española and Floreana Islands