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I can offhand see two times when the US might be handed legal/official ownership of the Galapagos Islands - either alongside the Philipines after the Spanish-American War, or thrown in with much of central North America in the Louisiana Purchase. (were there any other occasions?)


[assuming that history goes pretty much according to [OTL] plan until it figures in the US history]...aside from visits by whalers and seal-hunters, when would the US really start to invest in the Islands in any meaningful way? a radio base during WW2? offered to Confederates to stall any debates over Kansas?

thoughts?
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