Stop. Read. Think. And Hilda: thank you.
I have just minutes ago finished watching a TV programme about the Falklands War, a war which started 25 years ago today: many good and loved people from Britain and Argentina died and were injured. And I, an Englishman, came to my computer tonight to find an email from an Argentine scientist called Hilda in my inbox. I am posting from the Yorkshire* town of Whitby, whose patron saint is Saint Hilda. When the western Christian world celebrates Easter in one week, its movable date was fixed by a meeting in Whitby Abbey in 644. The boss of that meeting? Saint Hilda.
HMS Beagle under the command of Robert FitzRoy spent a year surveying the coast of Argentina before sailing to the Falkland Isles (where one of the crew died). Darwin made many great discoveries in Argentina and on the Falklands. In 2010 the replica HMS Beagle will arrive in Argentina. We hope British students will join Argentinian young students and scientists to recreate Darwin's great 1833 journeys in Argentina, and that Argentine students, teachers and scientists will join HMS Beagle as to sail around Cape Horn, to show us the Patagonia that so impressed Darwin. So here is the email, unedited:
We contact you for send an article about Darwin and the Beagle Project (in joined file) It had been published in a magazine of Argentina name Bienvenido a Bordo (Welcome on board), a nautical magazine. The web is www.bienvenidoabordo.com.ar. The idea of the magazine will be continue with these theme all along the 2007 and 2008 years, until the Beagle come to South America.
The magazine set us in charge of these section name On Darwin steps. We are biologist, wildlife photographers and science writers and we went and will be go to the places that Darwin visited during his journey in Argentina. Further, we are authors of education books in Argentina.
Thus, this year we went to Sierra de la Ventana, to resolve the unknown quantity about of what hill Darwin climbed in these region. Some people said that he climbed the Ventana’s hills, but we said that he climbed Cerro Tres Picos. The Darwin´s description matched with the last opinion. In the BAB´s article there is a photograph of these hill. In another article we will tell the complete story.
We visited Puerto Deseado and we made the journey until the end of the Ría Deseado, a place that Darwin visited in 1833. The place is known as Balcony of Darwin, actually.
We visited, too Punta Alta, where Darwin founded his first fossils in Sudamerica.
We are trying to go to all the places that Darwin visited during his inland expeditions, and in these sense, we are trying to receive the support of the British ambassador in Argentina. The Ambassador, Dr. John Hughes has a special interest in the Beagle Project and say us that he would want to contact with you. In a few day we will contact him to show these articles and others. He is Welsh.
We known a lot of researchers in Argentina and researchers that made theirs investigations in our country, we are biologist, we known about Darwin and we have contact in Argentina. A good combination for the project.
Congratulations from Argentina and cordial greetings.
So: another and very important reason why we should build a replica HMS Beagle.
* Another Darwin link: Charles Darwin posted his first editions of The Origin of Species from Ilkley, Yorkshire in 1859.
HMS Beagle under the command of Robert FitzRoy spent a year surveying the coast of Argentina before sailing to the Falkland Isles (where one of the crew died). Darwin made many great discoveries in Argentina and on the Falklands. In 2010 the replica HMS Beagle will arrive in Argentina. We hope British students will join Argentinian young students and scientists to recreate Darwin's great 1833 journeys in Argentina, and that Argentine students, teachers and scientists will join HMS Beagle as to sail around Cape Horn, to show us the Patagonia that so impressed Darwin. So here is the email, unedited:
We contact you for send an article about Darwin and the Beagle Project (in joined file) It had been published in a magazine of Argentina name Bienvenido a Bordo (Welcome on board), a nautical magazine. The web is www.bienvenidoabordo.com.ar. The idea of the magazine will be continue with these theme all along the 2007 and 2008 years, until the Beagle come to South America.
The magazine set us in charge of these section name On Darwin steps. We are biologist, wildlife photographers and science writers and we went and will be go to the places that Darwin visited during his journey in Argentina. Further, we are authors of education books in Argentina.
Thus, this year we went to Sierra de la Ventana, to resolve the unknown quantity about of what hill Darwin climbed in these region. Some people said that he climbed the Ventana’s hills, but we said that he climbed Cerro Tres Picos. The Darwin´s description matched with the last opinion. In the BAB´s article there is a photograph of these hill. In another article we will tell the complete story.
We visited Puerto Deseado and we made the journey until the end of the Ría Deseado, a place that Darwin visited in 1833. The place is known as Balcony of Darwin, actually.
We visited, too Punta Alta, where Darwin founded his first fossils in Sudamerica.
We are trying to go to all the places that Darwin visited during his inland expeditions, and in these sense, we are trying to receive the support of the British ambassador in Argentina. The Ambassador, Dr. John Hughes has a special interest in the Beagle Project and say us that he would want to contact with you. In a few day we will contact him to show these articles and others. He is Welsh.
We known a lot of researchers in Argentina and researchers that made theirs investigations in our country, we are biologist, we known about Darwin and we have contact in Argentina. A good combination for the project.
Congratulations from Argentina and cordial greetings.
So: another and very important reason why we should build a replica HMS Beagle.
* Another Darwin link: Charles Darwin posted his first editions of The Origin of Species from Ilkley, Yorkshire in 1859.
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