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BELOW IS A LOG OF DARWIN'S JOURNEY

Find a map and see if you can mark the countries that Darwin visited.

 

1831

27 December: set sail from Plymouth


1832

18 January to 8 February: Cape Verde Islands

28 February to 18 March: Bahia

4 April to 5 July: Rio de Janeiro

8 to 23 April: Excursions to various estates inland

26 July to 19 August: Montevideo

6 September to 17 October: Bahia Blanca

2 to 26 November: Montevideo

16 December to 26 February 1833: Tierra del Fuego


1833

1 March to 6 April: Falkland Islands

28 April to 23 July: Maldonado

3 to 24 August: Mouth of the Rio Negro

11 to 17 August: Excursion from El Carmen to Bahia Blanca

24 August to 6 October: Surveying the Argentinian Coast

8 to 20 September: Excursion from Bahia Blanca to Buenos Aires

6 to 19 October: Maldonado

27 September to 20 October: Excursion to Santa Fe and along the Parana

21 October to 6 December: Montevideo

14 to 28 November: Excursion to Mercedes


1834

23 December to 4 January: Port Desire

9 to 19 January: Port St Julian

29 January to 7 March: Tierra del Fuego

10 March to 7 April: Falkland Islands

13 April to 12 May: Santa Cruz river

18 April to 8 May: Excursion up the Santa Cruz river

28 June to 13 July: Chiloe

31 July to 10 November: Valparaiso

14 August to 27 September: Excursion into the Andes


1835

21 November to 4 February 1835: Chileo and Chronos archipelago

8 to 22 February: Valdivia

4 to 7 March: Concepcion

11 to 17 March: Valparaiso

13 March to 10 April: Excursion from Santiago, across the Andes to Mendoza

27 March to 17 April: Neighbourhood of Concepcion

17 April to 27 June: Chilean coast

27 April to 4 July: Excursion to Coquimbo and Copiapo

12 to 15 July: Iquiqui (Peru)

19 July to 7 September: Callao

16 September to 20 October: Galapagos Islands

15 to 26 November: Tahiti

21 to 30 December: New Zealand


1836

12 to 30 January: Sydney

2 to 17 February: Hobart, Tasmania

3 to 14 March: King George's Sound

2 to 12 April: Cocos (Keeling) Islands

29 April to 9 May: Mauritius

31 May to 18 June: Cape of Good Hope

7 to 14 July: St Helena

19 to 23 July: Ascencion Island

1 to 6 August: Bahia

12 to 17 August: Pernabucco

2 October: Charles Darwin arrives at Falmouth, Cornwall, England.

Reproduced from Darwin and the Beagle by Alan Moorehead 1969