Charles Darwin in Uruguay

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Dear reader

Charles Darwin, the naturalist, was a great traveller, always sniffing about. At 22, he travelled from England on the H.M.S. Beagle to South America on a two-year survey, and spent most of 1833 in and around Uruguay and Argentina.

During his round the world trip, Darwin kept a diary. If he’d had access to the internet, he would have blogged. He didn’t return to England until 1836.

You can read his book The Voyage of the Beagle, published in 1839, here - - check out Chapter 8! A great writer, Darwin covered biology, geology and anthropology, as good a starting point as ever.

There's even a street in Montevideo named after Darwin.

Here in Australia we have an entire city named after this intrepid traveller: the capital of the Northern Territory. In the 1800s, it was just a small port. The first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839. The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Darwin, who had sailed with them both on the earlier second expedition of the Beagle. Darwin himself never went anywhere near the north coast of Australia!

Bye for now

Guapita

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Comments

[Tom Hollowell]

Date correction
Charles was in Uruguay a century before stated (1933).