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Galapagos Islands

Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, part of Ecuador since 1832

🇪🇨 Ecuador · -0.6667, -90.5500

Galapagos Islands is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 2 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on. 1 anime is also set here.

“Master and Commander was the first non-documentary film to shoot on location in the Galápagos.”
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) · Wikipedia

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Galapagos Islands
Photo: European Space Agency · Attribution · Wikimedia Commons

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Galapagos Islands as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Set here

Anime that take place here. Nothing drawn was ever filmed here, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.

Other filming locations in Ecuador

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed at Galapagos Islands?

2 productions are recorded as filmed at Galapagos Islands, including Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson (2011). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed at Galapagos Islands?

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), covered by 47 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Galapagos Islands?

Galapagos Islands is in Ecuador, at -0.6667, -90.5500.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by European Space Agency, Attribution.