Interest grows...
The BBC documentary department has contacted us asking for background, what we're planning and expressing tentative interest in making programmes about the replica HMS Beagle. Excellent: the BBC has a track record of making superb natural history programmes. We'll be taking a replica of HMS Beagle to some of the most spectacular places on earth (The Galapagos, South America, New Zealand, Australia), recreating the voyage that inspired the theory of natural selection and celebrating the life and achievements of Charles Darwin (founder of evolutionary biology) and Robert FitzRoy (founder of long-range maritime weather forecasting). Plenty for a documentary maker to get broadcasting teeth into there.
Information will be on its way to the BBC today, just as the technology allowing us to stream video footage from boat mid-ocean is maturing nicely, according to this story.
Information will be on its way to the BBC today, just as the technology allowing us to stream video footage from boat mid-ocean is maturing nicely, according to this story.
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I am pleased to inform that in Chile we are especially grateful to Robert FitzRoy's memory, for such an illustrious seaman, explorer, hydrographer and meteorologist, commanding HMS Beagle, made a valuable contribution to the knowledge of our seas, shores and interiors waters of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn Archipielago.
At the end of FitzRoy's Bicentenary year (2005), both three commemorative marble plaques have been presented by several Chilean maritime and heritage institutions in homage to FitzRoy, and they shall be, weather permitting, inaugurated forthcoming months in Puerto Williams (Worlds Southernst town, in Navarin Island), in Cape Horn and in Wulaia Bay. The British Ambassador was present in both two of the ceremonies.
For further information, please visit following links:
- Chilean Public Libraries & Record Offices Direction:
http://www.dibam.cl/noticias.asp?id=3840
- Chilean Navy:
http://www.armada.cl/p4_armada/site/artic/20051228/pags/20051228154532.html
http://www.armada.cl/p4_armada/site/artic/20060111/pags/20060111144221.html
http://www.armada.cl/p4_armada/site/artic/20060118/pags/20060118153434.html
- British Embassy:
http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1093348663073&a=KArticle&aid=1136905322383
- The Chilean Heritage:
http://www.nuestro.cl/notas/rescate/fitz_roy1.htm
We also are, indeed, very enthusiastic in rending several plentyful of signify tributes to Charles Darwin's memory in his Bicentenary (2009).
Jorge F. Mery
Santiago de Chile
I am pleased to inform that in Chile we are especially grateful to Robert FitzRoy's memory, for such an illustrious seaman, explorer, hydrographer and meteorologist, commanding HMS Beagle, made a remarkable contribution to the knowledge of our seas, shores and interiors waters of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn Archipielago.
At the end of FitzRoy's Bicentenary year (2005), both three commemorative marble plaques have been presented by several Chilean maritime and heritage institutions in homage to FitzRoy, and they shall be, weather permitting, inaugurated forthcoming months in Puerto Williams (Worlds Southernst town, in Navarin Island), in Cape Horn and in Wulaia Bay. The British Ambassador was present in both two of the ceremonies.
For further information, please visit following links:
- Chilean Public Libraries & Record Offices Direction:
http://www.dibam.cl/noticias.asp?id=3840
- Chilean Navy:
http://www.armada.cl/p4_armada/site/artic/20051228/pags/20051228154532.html
http://www.armada.cl/p4_armada/site/artic/20060111/pags/20060111144221.html
http://www.armada.cl/p4_armada/site/artic/20060118/pags/20060118153434.html
- British Embassy:
http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1093348663073&a=KArticle&aid=1136905322383
- The Chilean Heritage:
http://www.nuestro.cl/notas/rescate/fitz_roy1.htm
We also are, indeed, very enthusiastic in rending several plentyful of signify tributes to Charles Darwin's memory in his Bicentenary (2009).
Crux Australis
Santiago de Chile
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