Baltra Island (Spanish: Isla Baltra), is a small island of the Galápagos Islands. Also known as South Seymour (named after Lord Hugh Seymour), Baltra is a small flat island located near the center of the Galápagos. It was created by geological uplift. The island is very arid and vegetation consists of salt bushes, prickly pear cactus and palo santo trees.

The ultimate origin of the name "Baltra" for the island is unknown.

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Unlike the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the Equator, at 0° latitude, receives a maximum intensity of the sun’s rays all year. As a result, areas near Earth’s Equator (like the Galapagos) experience relatively constant sunlight and little equinoctial variation. At the Equator, the solstices are barely marked at all.

Back home in the USA, today was the Summer Solstice (or the longest day of the year) with 15 hours of daylight. In the Galapagos, there was 12 hours of daylight for the Summer Solstice; or the same as with the Winter Solstice... Or since most of the Galapagos are very slightly below the equator, maybe June was the Winter Solstice in this location. All I'm sure of is that I was there on this date & it was the start of Astronomical Summer back home.