The Voyage

Darwin’s most famous ideas, theories as well as discoveries, came from the landing on the Galapagos Islands. The Beagle landed on the Galapagos Islands on September 15th, 1835, where they ended up spending a large fraction of their total time for the voyage. Here Darwin made discoveries such as different species and land features and how even though they are all different they somehow all managed to be on these islands. Here Darwin discovered different types of species of plants and animals that are found in other locations of the earth and can do other things and make look a little different, but he his also than finding them here on these islands with different qualities. With the time spent there he started to create his ideas and theories of natural selection through all his observations.  This theory opened up a whole new view on the way that people saw the earth.

On the way back home from the voyage Darwin had collected many fossils and species to take back home with him that he collected throughout the voyage. Most of what was gathered throughout the voyage was sent back to England during the time of the expedition.There were many stops on their pathway along the coast. At their first stop in St. Jago Darwin discovered volcanic rock, which included seashells. This discovery was given evidence to the concept that land slowly rises and falls over an extent period of time. But one of the first discoveries that Darwin made on the way that helped him understand geography in an even greater sense was at Punta Alta in Patagonia where he had discovered a fossil bone of an extinct animal. The discovery of the bone gave insight into the geological movement because the bone of this mammal was not indigenous to the area and its location of discovery did not match they type of animal for that environment it gave some support that there was a series of elevations of land within that area which may have placed that bone there.