Back to the list of natural wonders in Civ6
- "The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable: it seems to be a little world within itself."
–Charles Darwin
Wikipedia has a page called:
The Galápagos Islands are a two-tile impassable Natural Wonder in Civilization VI. The Islands may be found on Coast tiles. Each Wonder tile provides +2 Science and +2 Appeal to adjacent tiles.
In Civilization VI: Rise and Fall, discovering the Galápagos Islands grants +1 Era Score, or +3 Score if the player is the first to do so.
Contents
- 1 Strategy
- 2 Civilopedia entry
- 3 Trivia
- 4 Gallery
- 5 Related achievements
Strategy[]
Each Galápagos Islands tile provides +2 Science to adjacent non-wonder tiles (see diagram). However, as with all impassable wonders, the individual wonder tiles offer no benefits, and cannot be developed or improved. The Islands are usually most effective when they are near the outskirts of a city (or even slightly beyond its borders), since the wonder tiles themselves are functionally dead space. If a city is strategically placed in this fashion, it receives the adjacency benefits of the wonder without sacrificing valuable space.
However, the Galápagos Islands themselves tend to spawn at least one tile away from the shore. In the rare case where it spawns adjacent to the Coast, it can still be incorporated into a National Park. It is therefore recommended to settle two cities within range of the Galápagos Islands to make use of all of its enhanced tiles, while not sacrificing one of those enhanced tiles for a Harbor if the player were to settle only one city that had control of all of the enhanced tiles.
Civilopedia entry[]
Islas Galapagos were first visited by a European when the Spanish Bishop of Panama, Fray Tomás de Berlanga, was blown off course on his way to Peru in 1535 AD. No one paid much attention again to the isolated equatorial archipelago until 1835 when the HMS Beagle, with a young naturalist named Charles Darwin aboard, happened by while charting approaches to Pacific harbors. Darwin wandered about Charles Island and noted that the tortoises there differed from those on other islands in the chain. Once he could cut them up, Darwin also found, despite distinct variations, a single species of finches on the islands. Thus originated the Origin of the Species … and mankind’s understanding of just about everything biological (not to mention spiritual) would never be the same afterward.
Trivia[]
- The Galápagos Islands can be found in their real-life location on the standard Earth and standard True Start Location Earth maps.
Gallery[]
The Galápagos Islands intro cinematic
The Galápagos Islands, as seen in-game
A civilization discovers the Galápagos Islands
Related achievements[]
The Origin of Species Activate Darwin adjacent to the Galapagos Islands
|
Civilization VI Wonders [edit] | |
---|---|
Wonders | Alhambra • Amundsen-Scott Research Station • Angkor Wat1 • Apadana1 • Big Ben • Biosphère1 • Bolshoi Theatre • Broadway • Casa de Contratación • Chichen Itza • Colosseum • Colossus • Cristo Redentor • Eiffel Tower • Estádio do Maracanã • Etemenanki1 • Forbidden City • Golden Gate Bridge • Great Bath • Great Library • Great Lighthouse • Great Zimbabwe • Hagia Sophia • Hanging Gardens • Hermitage • Huey Teocalli1 • Jebel Barkal1 • Kilwa Kisiwani • Kotoku-in • Machu Picchu • Mahabodhi Temple • Mausoleum at Halicarnassus1 • Meenakshi Temple • Mont St. Michel • Oracle • Országház • Oxford University • Panama Canal • Petra • Potala Palace • Pyramids • Ruhr Valley • Statue of Liberty • Statue of Zeus1 • St. Basil's Cathedral • Stonehenge • Sydney Opera House • Taj Mahal • Temple of Artemis • Terracotta Army • Torre de Belém1 • University of Sankore • Venetian Arsenal |
Natural wonders | Bermuda Triangle1 • Chocolate Hills • Cliffs of Dover • Crater Lake • Dead Sea • Delicate Arch • Eye of the Sahara • Eyjafjallajökull1 • Fountain of Youth1 • Galápagos Islands • Giant's Causeway1 • Gobustan • Great Barrier Reef • Hạ Long Bay1 • Ik-Kil • Kakadu2 • Lake Retba • Lysefjord1 • Mato Tipila • Matterhorn • Mount Everest • Mount Kilimanjaro • Mount Roraima • Mount Vesuvius • Païtiti1 • Pamukkale • Pantanal • Pinnacles2 • Piopiotahi • Sahara el Beyda • Torres del Paine • Tsingy de Bemaraha • Ubsunur Hollow • Uluru1 • Vinland2 • Yosemite • Zhangye Danxia |
1 Requires DLC • 2 Specific scenarios only Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack. |