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John Stevens Henslow, a British priest, botanist and geologist, who, in 1831, was offered a place aboard a voyage to survey South America. After his wife dissuaded him from accepting, Henslow wrote to the captain, telling him to offer his place on the HMS Beagle to his protégé, Charles Darwin

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The oldest building in New Zealand that is still being used for its original intended purpose is an Anglican church, partly paid for by Charles Darwin and the crew of the HMS Beagle.

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1. Charles Darwin was almost rejected as a passenger on the HMS Beagle because the captain of the ship disliked the shape of his nose

2. Charles Darwin's great-grandson died in 2010 and was a physiologist who edited the accounts and illustrations of Darwin's famous voyage aboard HMS Beagle

3. About "Jemmy Button" of the Yaghan people, who was a companion of Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle. "Button" had been taken hostage along with three others during the Beagle's first voyage and was brought to England, so he was returning home to Tierra del Fuego on the Beagle's second voyage.

4. Captain Fitzroy of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin’s famous ship, invented modern weather forecasting and meteorology.

5. The mountain on the Patagonia logo, Mount Fitz Roy, is named after Robert FitzRoy, who was the captain of the HMS Beagle. Charles Darwin sailed aboard the Beagle, with FitzRoy at the helm, on his voyage that inspired his theories of evolution and natural selection.

6. While travelling on the HMS Beagle, Darwin discovered typical armadillos, but also the fossilized remains of giant armadillos. This provided evidence to Darwin's notion that the giant armadillos had died off, leaving only the "modern" variant behind...

7. The HMS Beagle of Darwin fame was responsible for creating our first scientific maps of ocean currents. The captain of the Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, would go on to be the first to make accurate weather forecasts.

8. The captain of the HMS Beagle (the ship famous for Darwin's voyages), Admiral Robert Fitzroy invented the Weather Forecast.

9. Charles Darwin never visited Darwin, NT Australia. while HMS Beagle was on a later voyage, John Clements Wickham named the region "Port Darwin" in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin

10. Charles Darwin's ship HMS Beagle, which circumnavigated the globe twice and had Darwin on board when he made the discoveries that led to his theory of natural selection, final resting place is believe to be in Paglesham, Essex where the vessel was likely dismantled, and repurposed elsewhere.