• Beagle Voyage begins

    Charles Darwin was 22 and the Captain's Assistant
  • Cape Verde Islands

    Darwin starts plotting the geology.
  • Crossing the Equator

  • Brazilian Rainforest

    Darwin goes to a Brazilian rainforest and looks at the plants and animals
  • Fossils

    Darwin finds fossils
  • Falkland Islands

    full of brachiopods
  • Rio Negro, Argentina

    meets natives and there is independence of whatever doing
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    Chiloe Island, Chile

    darwin observes an erupting volcano and an earthquake
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    Galapagos Islands

    Darwin does the majority of his research here. Observes the wildlife.
  • Sydney, Australia

    Darwin wonders why the animals are so different from place to place.
  • Cocos Islands

    Darwin studies the coral reefs
  • Mauritius

    observes the field of black lava that has grass growing on it.
  • Cape Town, South Africa

    Table Mountain
  • Bahia amd Pernambuco, South America

    observes strange animals in the jungle
  • Beagle Voyage ends

    Darwin is homesick no longer