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Darwin plans a trip to the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa.
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Charles Darwin goes on the HMS Beagle voyage with the Captain Robert FitzRoy.
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Darwin is amazed by his first observations and he explores the volcanic island of St. Jago.
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Darwin and Captain FitzRoy had crossed the equator while on the Beagle voyage.
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Darwin explores the Brazilian rainforest for the first time.
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Darwin finds giant fossils and is astonished by what he sees. He dug up fossils of extinct mammals, like the ground sloth or glyptodon.
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Goals of the Beagle voyage was to establish a Christian mission and to spread Christianity. Darwin camps near a Fuegian Village and considers the tribal people of Tierra del Fuego "savages."
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He encounters 'primitive looking rocks' and finds them to be fossils. The Falklands were filled with brachiopods, which are 2 shelled animals living as the most abundant animals on Earth.
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Darwin explores Pampas, with the local people or 'gauchos.' He rides across the plains of Patagonia with a group of Argentine cowboys.
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Darwin sees Mount Osomo erupt while on the island of Chiloe and experiences the earthquake. Seeing the aftermath of the earthquake affected him tremendously and encouraged him to explore more
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The earthquake that Darwin experienced lifted the ocean floor 2.7 meters or 9 feet above sea level.
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Darwin finds many species of plants, birds and tortoises unique on the Galapagos Islands but he realized they seem related to the mainland species.
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Darwin found out that, back in London, the group of Galapagos fossils that he found were actually all finches.
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Darwin arrived in Sydney Cove, he saw all the different variety of marsupials and began to wonder why there is a completely different set of mammals in Australia.
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In South America, Darwin discovers many incredible creatures found in the jungle. Darwin is then dismayed when the Beagle makes an unscheduled detour
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Darwin studied coral reefs that were growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation.
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Darwin took an observation and it stated, "I took a quiet walk along the sea coast to the north of the town; the plain is there quite uncultivated, consisting of a field of black lava, smoothed over with coarse grass and bushes, the greater part of which are mimosas,"
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Darwin writes an other observation about his stop in Cape Town, South Africa during his voyage and states, "The first object in Cape Town which strikes the eye of a stranger, is the number of bullock wagons... I have as yet not mentioned the well known Table Mountain; this great mass of horizontally stratified sandstone rises quite close behind the town to a height of 3,500 feet."
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Darwin and Captain FitzRoy reached the end of their voyage on the Beagle and have returned home to England to share their discoveries and theories.