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22 year old, Charles Darwin graduated and joined Captain FitzRoy on the HMS Beagle for a planned 2 year trip around the world but, the sail actually took 5 years.
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Darwin was so, excited for his first observation. Charles wanted to record all the different countries he visited by writing a book on geology.
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Charles explores an Brazilian rainforests for the first time. He had saw an diversity of life.
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They had crossed the equator. Darwin was blindfolded by the constable, and placed on the plank of the ship.
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Charles was fascinated by the huge fossils he has say. He had saw giant mammals fossils such as an giant sloth. He believes some of the fossils ha had discovered were somewhat new.
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Captain Robert FitzRoy send 3 native people that he had brought to England from the previous voyage, back to there home country.
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The islands were deserted and in bad condition. Darwin had discovered rocks that have fossils inside of them. The Falklands Islands were full of brachiopods which is 2 shelled animals.
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Charles explores the fertile low land known as Pampas. There is pleasure in the gauchos life of independence.
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Charles had saw Mt. Osorno while on the island and also experience the earthquake. After experiencing the tremendous earthquake he believes that the island had gotten smaller.
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As Darwin explores this island he had discovered a diversity of many animals. He had saw giant tortoises, but he couldn't resist riding one. He had also, saw blue footed birds and finches with different size beaks.
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While arriving to the Sydney Cove he had said to himself "to congratulate myself that I was born and Englishman...it is a fine town". When exploring this continent he was wondering there is different mammals in Australia.
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Darwin had studied coral reefs around the islands to test his theory of atoll formation. Charles said that "such formations surely rank high amongst the wonderful object of this world.
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As Darwin walks North of the sea coast he notices that under the grass and bushes there is black lava.
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The first object that Darwin had noticed is the bullock wagons. Table Mountain is an physical feature that he had also had his eye on. This mountain has an height of 3,500 feet.
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Darwin had discovered many exciting creatures but, he had got homesick and sea sick. So, the Beagle had to have an unplanned detour.
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Charles Darwin had returned home late last night. His head was full of joy!
The Beagle Ship was 27m (90 feet) long. This ship holded 74 people and 22 clocks.