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were made on the following islands: Albemarle, at Iguana Cove and 

 Tagus Cove; Charles, at Post Office Bay; Chatham, at Freshwater 

 Bay and Tarrapin Road; Hood, at Gardner Bay; James, at Sulivan 

 Bay. 



Ships of the Royal Navy going to and homeward bound from their 

 station at Esquimault, B, C, stopped at the Galapagos to look for ship- 

 wrecked sailors on its inhospitable shores and took advantage of their 

 visits to plot additional anchorages. In 1846 H. M. S. Pandora surveyed 

 Conway Bay, Indefatigable Island, and re-surveyed Post Office Bay, 

 Charles Island, and Freshwater Bay, Chatham Island. Midshipman 

 G. W. P. Edwardes of the Daphne made a sketch of Freshwater Bay, 

 showing the difficulties encountered in watering on a rocky coast five 

 miles oH a lee shore, with the prevailing winds from the southeast. The 

 British later plotted two more anchorages: Sappho Cove, Chatham Is- 

 land, by H. M. S. Sappho, and Webb Cove, Albemarle Island, by 

 H. M. S. Cormorant. 



In addition to the islands and islets, there are several rocks which 

 were considered worthy of names, the two outstanding ones being 

 Kicker Rock, off the northern coast of Chatham Island, which has been 

 referred to as "Sleeping Lion" and spoken of many times by Captain 

 Colnett as the "remarkable rock," and Roca Redonda, about fifteen miles 

 off the north point of Albemarle, no doubt so named because of its shape, 

 redonda meaning square sail. Both these rocks are pictured on the chart 

 of Captain Pipon. Both Captain Colnett and Captain Porter on the 

 Essex had difficulty with the currents setting them too close to Redonda 

 and narrowly escaped hitting it. 



The Italian, French and United States navies also participated in 

 mapping the Galapagos. In 1882 and 1885, the Italian corvette Vettor 

 Pisani visited Wreck Bay, Chatham Island, and in 1887 Midshipman 

 Estienne of the French corvette Decres plotted an anchorage at Black 

 Beach, Charles Island. In 1909 the U. S. S. Yorktown charted Cartago 

 Bay on the east coast of Albemarle and in 1925 a reconnaissance of 

 Darwin Bay, Tower Island, was made by the U. S. S. Marblehead. In 

 May, 1932, Captain Garland Rotch of the yacht Zaca, while on the 

 Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences 

 to the Galapagos Islands, made two sketch surveys of anchorages not 

 yet charted, one on the northeast side of Narborough Island, which he 

 called California Cove, and the other of Academy Bay, Indefatigable 

 Island, locally known as Puerto Presidente Ayora. 



The islands, as well as their capes and bays, have for the most part 



