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Darwin reads Alexander Von Humboldt's inspiring account of his expeditions through the rainforest. For 6 months, Darwin plans a trip to the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa.
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Charles Darwin embarks on the HMS Beagle voyage with the Captain Robert FitzRoy, as his assistant.
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Darwin is exhilarated by his first observations. He explores the volcanic island of St. Jago, which is only 450 miles off the coast of Africa.
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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 rain forest for the first time.
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Darwin is intrigued by all the giant fossils he sees. He dug up fossils of gigantic extinct mammals, such as the ground sloth or glyptodon.
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Darwin camps near a Fuegian Village and considers the tribal people of Tierra del Fuego "savages." One of the goals of the Beagle voyage was to establish a Christian mission.
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Darwin finds the barren, windswept Falkland Islands 'desolate and wretched.' However, he then encounters 'primitive lookng rocks' and finds them to be fossils.
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Darwin sees Mount Osomo erupt while on the island of Chiloe and experiences the earthquake.The earthquake that Darwin experienced lifted the ocean floor 2.7 meters or 9 feet above sea level.
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Darwin was most fascinated by the enormous Galapagos tortoises and the marine iguana.He had thought included many different birds were actually all finches.
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Once Darwin had 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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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," observes Darwin.
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In the jungles of South America, Darwin discovers many incredible creatures.Beagle makes an unscheduled detour to make additional longitudinal measurements.
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