December 27th Million-Year-Old Islands Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882). The Voyage of the Beagle. Vol. 29, pp. 376-389 of The Harvard Classics It was the new-old lands that Darwin visited on his voyage of the "Beagle." The strange specimens of prehistoric life he saw there made the world gape and shudder. (Charles Darwin begins voyage in the "Beagle," Dec. 27, 1831.)
