The seminal event in Charles Darwin’s life was his 5-year voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle.
Darwin kept extensive notebooks of his observations on the plants, animals, fossils, and rocks of the areas he visited.. Darwin’s voyage is most widely remembered for the visit to the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, and for the unique animals that inhabited each island, like the marine iguanas, huge tortoises, and birds, but during the voyage Darwin also made the first geological maps of parts of South America, discovered fossils of previously unknown species of extinct South American mammals, and figured out how coral atolls formed.
Darwin returned to England with observations enough to occupy his thoughts for the rest of his long life.
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