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Tierra del Fuego. argentina
captian Fitzroy bring three native people back with him to england and attempts to start a christain mission which fails -
start of sail
at age 22 charles darwin and captin robert fitzroy.sets sail from plymouth. -
cape verde islands
makes his first observation of the animals and the geo;pgu of the islands -
crossing the equator
they had to get there heads shaaved and they were blindfolded and had buckets of water thrown around and then was placed in a plank that could easliy be tilted up into a large bath of water. 'The whole ship was a shower bath" said capit fitzroy -
Salvador. Brazil
he exploered the rainforests for the first time.The plants were different and so were the animials. -
Punta alta, Argentina
he found fossils, They were giant -
Falkland Islands
Darwin finds fossils of brachiopods two-shelled animals -
Rio Negro, Argentina
he explores fertile lowland areas know as pampas. the locals were call gauchos -
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Chiloe island,Chile
darwin sees mount osomo erupt and experiences the earthquake in the woods. he said the earthquake changed the earth -
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Galapagos Islands
finds many species of plants, birds and tortoises tht were unique. the tortoises were large and he rode one. the marine iguana swims or feeds in the ocean. all the animials seemed to match the lava that surronded them expect there were crads that were brightly colored -
Sydney, australia
he was happy to be born a english man and he wondered about the different mammals in australia -
Cocos islands
darwin studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory. -
Mauritius
a field of black lava smoothed over with co arse grass and bushes -
Cape Town. South africa
sandstones rises quite close behind town to a height of 3,500 feet -
Bahia and Pernambuco
discovers many incredible creatures, But they are sea sick, Beagle makes a unsheduled detour to make additional longitude measurments called the zig zag manner -
Falmouth,England
he reached home, the ship was only 90 feet long and carried 74 people and 22 clocks