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- Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire"), is an archipelago ... The total area is 73746|km2|sqmi|0|lk=on|abbr=on about two-thirds of ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 23:33, 30 April 2023
- The Strait of Magellan (often referred to as the Straits of Magellan ... The first European to navigate the strait was Ferdinand Magellan, ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- and experimental photographer/inventor, and the son of astronomer William ... Herschel was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, the son of William and ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 05:56, 3 August 2022
- Skunk is the common name for any of the largely omnivorous mammals ... role in food chains and impact a variety of plant and animal life. They ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 22:59, 23 April 2023
- quot; In the first edition of The Voyage of the Beagle, he explained species ... that nowadays is known as The Voyage of the Beagle. In December 1839 ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- 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
- The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... Located in the open ocean between the South American and African continents ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful ... With Asian countries on the western Pacific rim projected to continue ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- The Galápagos Islands (Spanish names: Islas de Colónumio or Islas ... 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 ... Wild rheas provide important ecological values as part of food chains ...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
- the First Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, Under the Command ... an idea he conceived during the voyage of the Beagle. His theory was ...54 KB (8,146 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
- Thoreau believed nature to be an expression of God and a symbolic reflection ... his thought by embedding his ideas in the context of descriptive narrative ...27 KB (3,979 words) - 07:13, 22 January 2024
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... Like the Earth, Mars has a rocky surface and polar ice caps. Its rotational ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- tropical acute and chronic parasitic disease of the Americas caused by the ... by Darwin in his diaries of the Voyage of the Beagle as occurring in ...38 KB (5,449 words) - 02:04, 13 January 2023
