Pinta Island

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Pinta, English Abingdon Iceland is one of the Galápagos Islands. It was after the Pinta, one of the ships of Columbus, named and has an area of ​​about 59 km ². The highest point of the island is about 777 meters above sea level.

On the island lived Lonesome George, one of the most famous tortoises of the Galapagos Islands, until it was moved to the Charles Darwin Station on Santa Cruz. There died Lonesome George, the last tortoise probably the subspecies Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni, 2012 at the age of about 100 years.

Pinta is the northernmost of the active volcanic islands of the Galapagos, it is a shield volcano. In her life, among other tailed gulls, marine iguanas and Galápagos fur seals.