Map 3.3 - Voyage of the Beagle

In 1831, at the age of twenty-two, Darwin became the captain’s companion and naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle during a five-year surveying voyage around South America and the Pacific.During the voyage Darwin was exposed to something that few other scientists had seen: natural diversity across a wide range of habitats, locations, and environments (Fuentes 2007:32).