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Charles Darwin embarks on the HMS Beagle voyage as the ship captain's assistant at age 22
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Darwin is exhilarated by his first observations
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The entire crew is fairly traumatized by events about crossing the horizontal line that splits the world in half.
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Darwin explores Brazilian rainforests for the first time
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Darwin is intrigued by the giant fossils he sees
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Captain Robert FitzRoy repatriates 3 native people he had brought to England on a previous voyage
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Darwin finds the barren windswept islands desolate and wretched but finds brachiopod fossils as well
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Darwin explores the fertile lowland areas known as pampas
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Darwin sees Mt. Osorno erupt and then experiences an earthquake in the woods near Valdivia.
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Darwin visit the Galpagos and find rare species of plants, birds and tortoises
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Darwin marvels at Marsupials and wonders as to why Oceania has it's own set of mammals
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Darwin studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation
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Darwin visits an island which contains mostly mimosas and fields of black lava
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Darwin visits the bottom of the African continent and sees a large amount of Bullock trailers and Table Mountain
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Darwin visits the jungles of south america and sees incredible creatures animals and amount alike
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Darwin finally returns home and is grateful to see his family once again