Impersonator conjures Charles Darwin on Galapagos visit

Noll, in the costume of the English naturalist, geologist, and biologist Charles Darwin, poses for a picture next to a blue-footed booby at the beach in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island in Galapagos, Ecuador. Photo: AFP

With a long grey beard and old-school brown suit, a Charles Darwin lookalike observes marine iguanas and the blue-footed booby - an iconic bird on the Galapagos Islands.

Two centuries after the British biologist visited the archipelago which inspired his theory of evolution, a retired US professor has tracked part of his journey all while dressed as his 19th-century hero.