Search results for "Second voyage of HMS Beagle" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire"), is an archipelago ... Charles Darwin, in what was the second voyage of HMS Beagle. ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 23:33, 30 April 2023
- The Strait of Magellan (often referred to as the Straits of Magellan ... a difficult route to navigate because of the inhospitable climate and ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- photographer/inventor, and the son of astronomer William Herschel ... Herschel was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, the son of William and ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 05:56, 3 August 2022
- Patagonia is the portion of South America which to the east of the ... (2001 census) inhabitants. Seventy percent of its population is located in ...22 KB (3,265 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution through ... Considered the "father of evolutionary theory," Darwin made ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions ... economic growth and emergence as centers of technological innovation, and ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... by human activity. The resident population of Fernando de Noronha is less ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- "saddle"- after the shells of saddlebacked Galápagos tortoises ... The Galápagos archipelago is part of Ecuador, a country in northwestern ...33 KB (5,083 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- Rhea is the common name for any of the large, flightless, ratite birds ... During the second voyage of HMS Beagle, the young naturalist Charles ...37 KB (5,458 words) - 21:03, 2 December 2023
- ; named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands) is the southernmost ... Cape Horn is widely considered to be the most southerly point of South ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- foundation produced by the skeletons of living organisms, a substantial ... and plant life. Known as "rainforests of the sea" and "oases ...54 KB (8,146 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
