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The Voyage of the Beagle and Darwin's explorations – a multi-page synopsis with maps. Bright Sparcs – The Journal of Syms Covington, Assistant to Charles Darwin Esq. on the Second Voyage of HMS Beagle; Charles Darwin's Great Adventure: Voyage of the Beagle Without the Science
Beagle 2 – A British Mars space probe, lost on 25 December 2003, named after HMS Beagle. It was photographed on the surface of Mars in 2015. Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle; The Voyage of the Space Beagle, a science fiction adventure by A. E. van Vogt loosely inspired by Darwin's voyage aboard HMS Beagle
A nautical chronometer made by Thomas Earnshaw (1749–1828), and once part of the equipment of HMS Beagle, the ship that carried Charles Darwin on his voyage around the world, is held in the British Museum. The chronometer was the subject of one episode of the BBC's series A History of the World in 100 Objects.
Second voyage of HMS Beagle Beagle at Ponsonby Sound in the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, in March 1834; painting by the ship's draughtsman Conrad Martens Leader Robert FitzRoy Start 27 December 1831 (1831-12-27) End 2 October 1836 (1836-10-02) Goal Survey South American coast Ships HMS Beagle Achievements Research leading to Darwin's theory of evolution Route The second voyage of HMS ...
This chronometer was also on the second voyage. It was lost in HMS Erebus when she was abandoned ice-bound in the Arctic during Franklin's lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. [49] [48] Erebus was rediscovered in 2014. – Arnold and Dent: 633: Government: box: one-day: Issued to Beagle on 27 May 1837 and returned to Greenwich on 13 ...
The Curacoa and Tribune steam-frigates, and Beagle gun-boat, in the ice, at Berezan Island, shortly after the Battle of Kinburn in December 1855. Illustrated London News. Beagle was sold to the Satsuma Domain (薩摩藩) of Japan at Hong Kong in 1863 to be used as a training vessel, and was renamed Kenko (乾行) in 1865. She was broken up in 1889.
Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
Second voyage of HMS Beagle; Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle; Pringle Stokes; V. The Voyage of the Beagle; Y. Yokcushlu This page was last edited on 16 April ...