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Plymouth, England
Charles Darwin, aged 22, embarks on the HMS Beagle voyage as the ship captain's assistant -
Cape Verde Islands
Darwin is exhilarated by his first observation -
Crossing the equator
Darwin crossed the Equator, he was shaved, and blindfolded by others from the ship -
Salvador, Brazil
Darwin explores Brazilian rain forests for the first time -
Punta Alta, Argentina
Darwin is intrigued by the giant fossils he sees -
Tierra del fuego, Argentina
Captain Robert FitzRoy repatriates three native people he had brought to England on a previous Voyage. FitzRoy attempts to start a christian mission, which fails disastrously. -
Falkland islands
Darwin finds the barren, windswepts falkland islands "desolate and wretched." But he perks up when he perks up when he cracks opensome " primitive looking rocks' and finds fossils. -
Rio Negro, Argentina
Darwin explores the fertile lowlands areas, known as pampas with the local people or gauchos. -
chiloe islands, chile
Darwin sees mount osomo erupt while the islandss of chiloe and experiences the earthquake in the woods near Valdivia. seeing the aftermath affected him tremendously -
Galapagos Islands
Darwin finds many species of plant, birds and tortoises unique to the galapagos islands, but they seem mysteriously related to mainland species. he is particularly fascinated and amused by the immese galapagos tortoises -
Sydney, Australia
On arrival in sydney cove, Darwin's first feeling was to congratulate himself that he was born an englishman -
Cocos islands
Darwin studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation -
Mauritius
Darwin enjoyed the scenery of the island, the sea, plains, towns etc. -
Cape Town, south Africa
This island had many large eye attracting objects from first glance -
Bahia and pernambuco, South America
In the jungles of south America, Darwin discovers many incredible creatures. However both homesick and seasick, he dismayed when the Beagle makes an unscheduled detour to make additional longitude measurements. -
Falmouth, England
after a long voyage Darwin reaches home laste at night, stepping of a 90 foot boat that carried 74 people, and 22 clocks, in very close quarters.
