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It begins
Charles Darwin embarks on the HMS Beagle voyage as the ship's assistant. -
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Darwin's Voyage
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Cape Verde Islands
Darwin is exhilarated by his first observations. He wants to write a book on the geology of the various countries he visited. -
Crossing the Equator
They crossed the equator and he undergone the disagreeable operation of being shaved. The constable blindfolded him and thus lead along, buckets of water were thundered around. The whole ship was a shower bath. -
Brazil
Darwin explores the Brazilian rainforests for the first time. -
Argentina
Darwin is intrigued by the giant fossils he sees. -
Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Captin Robert FitzRoy repatriates three native people he had brought to England on a previous voyage. FitzRoy attempts to start a Christain mission, which fails disastrously. -
Falkland Islands
Darwin finds the barren,windswept Falkland Islands 'desolate and wretched'. But he perks up when he cracks open some rocks and finds fossils. The Falkland Islands were full of brachiopods. -
Rio Negro, Argentina
Darwin explores the fertile lowland areas,known as Pampas, with the local people -
Chiloe Island, Chile
Darwin sees Mount Ososmo erupt while on the island of Chiloe and experiences the earthquack in the woods near Valdivia. Seeing the aftermath of the earthquack affects him tremendously. -
Chiloe Island, Chile
Darwin sees Mount Ososmo erupt while on the island of Chiloe and experiences the earthquack in the woods near Valdivia. Seeing the aftermath of the earthquack affects him tremendously. -
Galapagos Islands
Darwin finds many species of plants, birds, tortoises unique to the Galapagos Islands, but they seem mysteriously related to mainland species. He is particularly fascinated and amused by the 'immense' Galapagos tortoise. They were so large he could not resist climbing on top for a ride.
Of the many iguanas Darwin observes in the Galapagos Islands, the marine iguana is especially distinctive. No other iguana swims or feeds in the ocean. Darwin opens the stomach of serveral and finds seaweed. -
Galapagos Islands
Many Galapagos animals were as strange as their surrondings and their color often blended with the lava around them. Darwin is stunned to learn back in London, that the group of Galapagos specimens he had thought included many different birds were actually finches. -
Sydney, Austrailia
On the arrival in Sdyney Cove, Darwin's first feeling was to congratulate himself that he was born an englishman. -
Cocos Islands
Darwin studies coral reefs growing around the islands to test his theory of atoll formation. -
Mauritius
Darwin took a quiet walk along the sea coast to the north of the town; and he observed the plain is there quite uncultivated, consisting of field of black lava smoothed over with coarse grass and bushes, the greater part of which are mimosas. -
Cape Town, South Africa
The first object that struck his eye is the number of bullock wagons and also the Table Mountains. -
Bahia and Pernambuco, South America
In the jungles of South America, Darwin discovers many increadable creatures. But he was both homesick and seasick, he is dismayed when the Beagle makes an unscheduled detour to make additional longitude measurements. -
Falmouth, Engalnd
They reached home.