As expected, there is no evidence of glaciation on the Galapagos Islands for several reasons:

1. Location: Glaciers are found at high latitudes, while the islands are at 0 latitude, and are too remote for glaciers to extend onto them from other areas.

2. Elevation: Their highest point, Wolf, at 1710 meters is below the elevation at which freezing could occur at the equator with any regulaarity.

3. Origins: The islands are geologically young, and have risen from the sea floor. They were formed after the continents drifted to their present locations, so there would be no evidence of long-ago glaciation as seen, for example, in Australia.

This is not to say that the area has remained unaffected by ice ages, however. Koutavas, et.al. (2002) oberved quite striking climate effects of the Last Glacial Maximum (within the last 30,000 years), including "...a relaxation of tropical temperature gradients, weakened Hadley and Walker circulation, southward shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, and a persistent El Niño-like pattern in the tropical Pacific." They examined Sea Surface Temperature and Climate Variability evidence reconstructed from sea-floor sediments near the Galapagos Islands.