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On the voyage of the Beagle the young Charles Darwin took a break between graduating and starting his career as a clergyman to study the natural history of South America, an interest he had developed at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge.
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The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.
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On and Beagle
On the return of the Beagle ( October 1836 ) Lyell invited Darwin to dinner and from then on they were close friends.
On 9 September 1839, HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin harbour during its surveying of the area.
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On these occasions he usually lets his right-hand man Jeeves do the dirty work, but he also hires the Beagle Boys to do his dirty work for him from time to time.
On 25 June 1831 he was re-appointed commander of the Beagle.
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On stardate 4040. 7, the starship USS Enterprise, commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, is on routine patrol when it encounters the wreckage of the SS Beagle, a survey vessel lost six years earlier.
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On the eastern side of the Andes glacier lobes occupied the depressions of Seno Skyring, Seno Otway, Inútil Bay and Beagle Channel.
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On April 13, 1834, the Beagle anchored in the mouth of the river to begin an expedition up the river as part of its survey voyage.
In this one day we effected wha had cost us five-and-a-half hard days ' labour in ascending On the 8th, we reached the Beagle after our twenty-one days expedition.
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