16 The ship called the Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
Last updated: 2/16/2023
16 The ship called the Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands September 15 1835 or 1935 17 The Beagle had been charting the coast of South America or coast of Africa for over three years 18 The Beagle had only 5 months or 5 weeks to make a modern and accurate map of the Galapagos 19 Darwin was a naturalist just 30 or 26 years old 20 His first impression of the Galapagos was that it was beautiful or horrid 21 Right under the island of Fernandina there is a volcanic hotspot or a dead zone 22 The Storm Petrels have their nests in trees or in the cracks of cooled lava Their predator is the land iguanas or short eared owls 23 The curve in the tortoise shell allows them to hide from predators or stretch their necks to reach higher vegetation In the heart of the islands he found the only freshwater for 10 or 600 1