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Plymouth England
Charles Darwin joined captain FitzRoy on the HMS Beagle. -
Cape Verde island
Darwin exhilarated by his first observation.First dawn on him to write a book on the geology of various countries visited. -
Crossing the equator
Darwin was shaved and was bathed. -
Salvador, Brazil
Darwin explores brazil rainforest for the first time. -
Punta Alta, Argentina
Darwin is intrigued by the giant fossils he sees. -
Tierra del fuego, Argentina
Captain Robert Fitzroy repatriates three native people he had brought to England and attempts to start Christian mission which falls. -
Falkland Islands
Darwin finds the barren, windswept Falkland Islands. feeling they are desolate and wretched, he perks up when he cracking open some primitive looking rocks and finds fossils. -
Rio negro, Argentina
Darwin explores fertile lowland with the local people or gaucho’s. -
Chiloe island, Chile
Darwin sees Mount Osorno erupt and experience an earthquake in the woods near Valdivia. Seeing the aftermath affected him tremendously. -
Chiloe island, Chile
contuines to explores. -
Galapagos islands
Darwin finds many species of plant birds and tortoises unique to the island. Darwin is stunned to learn back in London that the Galapagos specimens were actually all finches. -
Galapagos islands
continuation of prevouse point in timeline. -
Sydney Australia
He arrives in Australia -
Cocos islands (Keeling Islands)
Darwin studies the coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation. -
Mauritius
Darwin observes mimosas after a long walk along the sea coast to the north of the town. -
Cape town, south Africa
Darwin writes first object in cape town that strikes the eye of a stranger, numerous bullock wagons. Also the height of Table Mountain is great mass of horizontally stratified sandstone. -
Bahia and Pernambuco, south America
Darwin discovers many incredible creatures. Both homesick and seasick he is dismayed when the beagle makes unscheduled detour. -
Falmouth England
Reach home with the delight.