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Beagle Voyage
27 December 1831
Plymouth, England
Charles Darwin, Aged 22, embarks on the HMS Beagle Voyage as the ships captain Assistant. -
Beagle Voyage
Darwin is exhilarated by his first observations. -
Beagle Voyage
"We have crossed the Equator and i have undergone the disagreeable of being shaved... the constable blindfolded me and thus lead along buckets of water were thundered all around. -
Beagle Voyage
Darwin explores Brazilian rainforest for the first time. -
Beagle Voyage
Darwin is intrigued by the giant fossils he sees. -
Beagle Voyage
Captain Robert FitzRoy repatriates three native people he had brought to england on a previous Voyage. -
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Darwin Explores the fertile lowland areas, known as Pampas , with the local people. -
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Darwin finds the barren, windswept Falkland Islands 'desolate and wretched.' -
Beagle Voyage
Darwin sees Mount Orsorno erupt while on the island of Chiloe and experiences the Earthquake in the woods near Valdiva -
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Darwin discovers many types of species of plants and animals -
Beagle Voyage
On survival in Sydney Cove, Darwin's first feeling was to congratulate himself that he was born an englishman. -
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Darwin studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation. -
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Darwin takes a long walk around a town in Mauritus -
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Darwin is measuring ocean depth in south africa -
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in the jungles of south america Darwin Discovers many different animal species. -
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Darwin finally reaches home