Beagle Voyage

By Addison1168

  • Charles Darwin sails on board the Beagle

    Charles Darwin sets sail as the captain's assistant on HMS Beagle.
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    The Beagle Voyage

  • HMS Beagle arrives at the Cape Verde Islands

    This is where Charles Darwin first starts the recording of his research.

  • HMS Beagle crosses the equator

    HMA Beagel and Charles Darwin cross the equator.

  • The Beagle voyage arrives in Salvador, Brazil

    Darwin explores the dense and beautiful rainforests of Brazil.

  • Punta Alta, Argentina

    This is where Darwin discovers giant fossils that leaves him thinking.

  • Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

    The captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, repatriates three native people he had brought to England on a voyage prior to his current voyage with Charles Darwin. FitzRoy was attemting to start a Christian mission, which failed terribly.

  • HMS Beagle arrives in Falkland Islands.

    Darwin discovered this barren and windswept island. Darwin said that it was, ''desolate and wretched.'' But, Darwin was able to make the best of it. Darwin discovered,''primitive,'' looking rocks and several fossils.

  • Rio Negro, Argentina

    Darwin explores the fertile low-land areas, known as Pampas, with the local people or 'guachos'.

  • (January-Febuary 1835) Chiloe` Island, Chile

    This is where Darwin sees Mount Osomo erupt while on the island of Chiloe`. Darwin also experienced a earthquake in the woods near Valdivia.

  • (September-October 1835) Galapogos Islands

    Darwin discoveres many new species of plants, birds and tortoises which are all very unique to the amazing islands of the Galapogos. He also makes a observation on how almost all of the plants and animals are similar to ones in the mainland.

  • Sydney, Australia

    Here Darwin admires the marsupilas and wonders why there is a completely different set of mammals in Australia.

  • Cocos Islands (Keeling Islands)

    Darwin discovers the coral reefs that were growing around the islands. He studied the coral reefs to test his theory of atoll formation.

  • Mauritius

    Darwin took a walk along the island and he obsrved that the island consisted of black lava which was smoothed over with coarse grasses and bushes.

  • Cape Town, South Africa

    When Darwin arrived here, what caught his eye was a giant mass of horizantally stratified sandstone, which is known as Table Mountain. The mass also rises to 3,500 feet.

  • Bahia and Pernambuco, South America

    Here Darwin discovered many new species of animals and plants. But, Darwin is both seasick and homesick he is dismayed when the Beagle makes an unsheduled detour to make longitude measurements.

  • Falmoth, England

    The Beagle and Darwin arrive back home in England.