13-Jan-1833: The day HMS Beagle nearly sank
Charles Darwin's closest brush with death during the Beagle voyage came on Sunday 13th January 1833, near that most infamous of nautical perils, Cape Horn.
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The great Darwin fossil hunt
In which a friend beyond measure arranges a behind-the-scenes visit to the Natural History Museum to see fossils collected by Charles Darwin during the Beagle voyage.
20-Feb-1835: Darwin witnesses an earthquake
On 20th February, 1835, Charles Darwin was lying down in a wood having a rest in Valvidia, Southern Chile, when he experienced a major earthquake.
11th July, 1836: Darwin visits Napoleon
Towards the end of her second voyage, HMS Beagle called at the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic. Darwin took the opportunity to visit the grave of St Helena's most famous former occupant (and prisoner), Napoleon Bonaparte.
12th February, 1834: Darwin's 25th birthday, Patagonia
How Charles Darwin spent his 25th birthday.
The HMS Beagle Olympics
On Christmas Day 1831, the crew of HMS Beagle held their own ’Olympic Games’ at Port Desire in Patagonia.
A miserable birthday aboard HMS Beagle
On Charles Darwin's miserable 23rd birthday (his first aboard HMS Beagle).
185 years ago today...
On 22nd May, 1826, His Majesty's Ship 'Beagle' set sail from Plymouth on a surveying voyage to South America.
Serendipitous juxtaposition
Two items just came up one after the other on my RSS reader. Their juxtaposition pleased me.
The Beagle entertains a royal visitor
...in the large, awkward shape of Queen Pomarre of Tahiti.