Santa CruzIsland by boat · Santa Cruz
A flat, dry island of cactus and lava just north of Santa Cruz, separated from it by the Itabaca Channel. The United States built an air base here in 1942 to guard the Panama Canal; its runway became the islands’ main airport.
27 km²
Area
1942 air base
Founded
Wildlife
Land iguana
Lava lizard
Blue-footed booby
Sea lion
- Why go
- Most visitors only cross it by bus, but the land iguanas along the road are a comeback story: wiped out here by the 1950s and brought back from North Seymour.
- Getting there
- Every flight into Baltra lands here; the bus to the Itabaca Channel takes ten minutes.
