The voyage of the Beagle: journal of a scientific expedition
A timeline that traces Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836. Through its stopovers, observations, encounters and discoveries, this expedition journal shows how contact with landscapes, species and cultures from different places transformed his way of understanding nature and laid the groundwork for some of the ideas that would later change the history of science.
The Invitation That Changes a Career24/08/1831
Darwin Arrives in Devonport24/10/1831
The Beagle Sails from Plymouth27/12/1831
First Atlantic Passage: Seasickness, Routine, and Observation27/12/1831 – 06/01/1832
Tenerife in Sight, but No Landing06/01/1832 – 07/01/1832
Santiago, Cape Verde: The First Volcanic Laboratory16/01/1832 – 08/02/1832
Porto Praya: A Dry Landscape and a New Way of Seeing16/01/1832
Ribeira Grande: History Within the Landscape20/01/1832
Crossing the Equator: The Voyage Reaches an Oceanic Scale02/02/1832
Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Rocks: Life on a Tiny Outcrop16/02/1832
Fernando de Noronha: A Brief Stop20/02/1832
Bahia: The First Tropical Immersion29/02/1832 – 18/03/1832
From Bahia to Rio: Colored Seas and Microscopic Life18/03/1832 – 04/04/1832
Rio de Janeiro: Residence, Forest, and Field Notebook04/04/1832 – 05/07/1832
Excursion North of Cabo Frio08/04/1832 – 23/04/1832
Socêgo: Luxuriant Nature and Slavery13/04/1832
Botafogo: A Base for Observing the Tropics23/04/1832
Toward the Río de la Plata05/07/1832 – 26/07/1832
Montevideo: Gateway to the Pampas26/07/1832
Maldonado: Ten Weeks of Natural History Collecting29/07/1832 – 19/10/1832
Gauchos, Compass, and Rural Hospitality01/08/1832
Rheas and the Fauna of the Plains15/08/1832
Punta Alta: Fossils Enter the Story22/09/1832
First Major Shipment of Specimens14/11/1832
Tierra del Fuego: An Unsettling Encounter18/12/1832
Woollya: Mission, Return, and the Fragility of the Project24/01/1833 – 06/03/1833
Jemmy Button and the Question of Cultural Adaptation01/03/1833
Into the Interior with Gauchos08/08/1833 – 12/08/1833
Meeting Rosas and Permission to Cross the Territory12/08/1833
Punta Alta Revisited: Bones, Shells, and Deep Time21/08/1833 – 01/09/1833
Carcarañá and Paraná: Traces of Extinct Giants01/10/1833
Conrad Martens Joins as Artist14/11/1833
Puerto Deseado: Christmas in Patagonia23/12/1833
Puerto San Julián: Fossils in the Cliffs09/01/1834
Strait of Magellan: Navigating Difficult Passages26/01/1834
Falkland Islands: Kelp, Birds, and Coastal Life16/03/1834
Expedition up the Santa Cruz River19/04/1834 – 08/05/1834
Chiloé and the Southern Archipelagos10/06/1834 – 23/07/1834
Valparaíso: A Base on the Pacific23/07/1834 – 10/11/1834
Illness and a Pause in Chile14/08/1834 – 27/09/1834
Chonos and Chiloé: Rain, Volcanoes, and a Fragmented Coast10/11/1834 – 08/02/1835
Valdivia: Prelude to the Earthquake08/02/1835
Concepción Earthquake: The Earth Moves20/02/1835
Concepción in Ruins04/03/1835
Crossing the Andes to Mendoza18/03/1835 – 10/04/1835
Coquimbo: Desert, Coast, and Raised Shells27/04/1835 – 01/06/1835
Copiapó: The Dry Limit of the Chilean Journey02/06/1835 – 21/06/1835
Lima and Callao: Waiting, Politics, and Preparing for the Pacific19/07/1835 – 06/09/1835
Arrival in the Galápagos15/09/1835
Chatham/San Cristóbal: Lava, Heat, and the First Island Notes16/09/1835 – 22/09/1835
Charles/Floreana: Tortoises, Local Accounts, and Variation23/09/1835 – 27/09/1835
Albemarle/Isabela: Volcanoes and Life on Separate Islands29/09/1835 – 04/10/1835
James/Santiago: Birds, Reptiles, and Decisive Collections08/10/1835 – 17/10/1835
From the Archipelago into the Open Pacific20/10/1835 – 15/11/1835
Tahiti: Landscape, Mission, and Cultural Contrast15/11/1835 – 25/11/1835
Bay of Islands: New Zealand and the Missionary World21/12/1835 – 30/12/1835
Sydney: An Expanding Colony12/01/1836 – 30/01/1836
Hobart: Tasmania and Colonial Comparison05/02/1836 – 17/02/1836
King George Sound: An Australian Stop06/03/1836 – 14/03/1836
Cocos Keeling: The Atoll as a Scientific Problem01/04/1836 – 12/04/1836
Mauritius: Rest and Tropical Comparison29/04/1836 – 09/05/1836
Cape of Good Hope: Science, Conversation, and Geology31/05/1836 – 18/06/1836
Saint Helena: An Island for Thinking About Erosion08/07/1836 – 14/07/1836
Ascension: Letters from Home and Scientific Reputation19/07/1836 – 23/07/1836
Return to Bahia: Closing the Tropical Circle01/08/1836 – 06/08/1836
Azores: The Final Atlantic Stop19/09/1836 – 23/09/1836
Falmouth: Return to England02/10/1836
Shrewsbury: Returning Home with Another World in His Mind04/10/1836
Richard Owen Examines the Fossils29/10/1836
Transmutation Notebooks: The Questions Are Reorganized1837
After the Beagle: Journal, Geology, and Evolution31/12/1837
