QUESTION Did Captain Robert FitzRoy almost throw Charles Darwin off the Beagle because he didn't like his face? There were two barriers in the way of Charles Darwin securing a berth on the Beagle ...

Today, its title commemorates Sir. Robert FitzRoy, the sailor who guided Charles Darwin into South America aboard the HMS Beagle. Visitors find the mountain striking as it's the highest mountain ...

His Cambridge mentor, John Stevens Henslow, has recommended him to a Captain Robert FitzRoy for a two-year voyage around the world. Henslow writes: "[T]here never was a finer chance for a man of ...

There had been some efforts to predict and warn about incoming weather via scientific means before this – pioneered by Robert FitzRoy (on whom more below) following a catastrophic storm in 1859 that ...

Some of our most famous specimens were collected by Charles Darwin and Captain Robert FitzRoy during the round-the-world voyage of HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836. Accepted on board as a gentlemanly ...

Reports from outlying areas revealed that volcanoes had been active, and Darwin and the Beagle's captain, Robert FitzRoy, measured an eight-foot uplift of the land. Darwin reckoned that volcanoes ...