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Darwin was 22 when he embarked on the Beagle Voyage as the captain's assistant. They departed from Plymouth, England on December 27, 1831.
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Darwin's first stop is the Cape Verde Islands but it is unknown the day he made this stop.
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Darwin has crossed the equator.
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Day was also unknown but Darwin reached Salvador, Brazil. It was his first time seeing a Brazilian rainforest.
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Darwin finds giant foosils and comes to the conclusion that they must be new.
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Darwin finds the Falkland Islands and is upset because its barren, until he opens some "primitve looking rocks" and finds differnt fossils. This island was full of brachiopods.
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Darwin meets the Gauchos and learns a little about their lifestyle
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Darwin sees Mt. Osomo erupt while he was on Chiloé and experiences an earthquake
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The galapagos tortoises really draw interest to darwin because of how large they were. He rode on the backs of some of these tortoises. He also saw a unique type of iguana that feeds and swims in the ocean. Darwin was curious so he opened the stomachs of some of these iguanas and found nothing but seaweed
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"...Darwin wonders why there is a completely different set of mammals" here(Australia)
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Darwin studies coral reefs around the island to test his theory of atoll formation
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What Darwin saw here was a field of black lava smoothed over with coarse grass and bushes
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The table mountain in South Africa are about 3,500 ft tall rising close behind the town.
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The Beagle took an unexpected detour to make longitude measurements
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Darwin returns to Plymouth, England