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How long did the HMS Beagle voyage with Charles Darwin last?

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HMS Beagle on the Strait of Magellan, South America, originally published in an 1890 edition of Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle. — Beagle HMS *Beagle* on the Strait of Magellan, South America, originally published in an 1890 edition of Charles Darwin's *Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle*.

The voyage of the HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin lasted from December 27, 1831, to October 2, 1836. This circumnavigation of the globe provided Darwin with crucial specimens and observations that formed the basis of his theory of evolution by natural selection.123