Beagle was a British ship that carried out marine surveys in South America and along the coast of Australia between 1826 and 1843. The famous British naturalist Charles Darwin sailed on H.M.S. Beagle from 1831 to 1836 (see Darwin, Charles Robert ). Darwin visited Australia when H.M.S. Beagle called at Sydney in 1836, although he traveled little in the colony. He recorded his impressions of the country in The Voyage of the Beagle. H.M.S. Beagle surveyed northwestern Australia in 1837, Bass Strait in 1838, and Torres Strait in 1839.
