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Charles Darwin embarks on the HMS Beagle voyage as the ship captains assistant.
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Darwin is exhilarated by his first observations.
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"The disagreeable practice alluded to has been permitted in most ships because sanctioned by time and though many condemn it as an absurd and dangerous piece of folly, it has also many advocates" - Captain FitzRoy
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Darwin explores Brazilian rain forests 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 three native people he had brought to England on a previous voyage, he attempts to start a Christian mission, which fails disastrously.
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Darwin finds the barren, windswept Falkland Island desolate and wretched, but he perks up when he cracks open some primitive looking rocks and finds fossils.
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Darwin explores the fertile lowland areas, known as pampas, with the local people or "gauchos".
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Darwin sees Mount Osorno erupt while one the island of Chiloe and experiences the earthquake in the woods near Valdivia.
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Darwin finds many species of plants birds and tortoises unique to the Galapagos Islands, but they seem mysteriously related to mainland species.
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arriving in Sydney Cove, Darwin's first feeling was to congratulate himself that he was born an Englishman.
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Darwin studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation.
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Darwin takes a quiet long walk along the sea cost to the north of the town.
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'The first object in Cape Town which strikes the eye of a stranger, is the number of bullock wagons'
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In the jungle of South America, Darwin discovers many incredible creatures, however both homesick and seasick he is dismayed when the Beagle makes an unscheduled detour to make additional longitude measurements.
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The Beagle ship was only 27m long and carried 74 people and 22 clocks, in very close quarters
