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Die Expedition der britischen Schiffe "Beagle" und "Adventure" in den Jahren 1826 und 1827 diente vornehmlich der Erkundung der Magellan-Strae fur die Nutzung durch die Handelsschifffahrt. Man wollte Alternativen zu dem gefahrlichen Seeweg um Kap Horn finden, war sich aber durchaus bewusst, dass auch die Magellan-Strae mit ihren starken Stromungen, heftigen Sturmen und zahlreichen Untiefen groe Gefahren fur Segelschiffe barg. Die wendigen und schnellen Erkundungsschiffe der Royal Navy leisteten gefahrliche Pionierarbeit. Von groem Gluck fur die Nachwelt sollte sich der Umstand erweisen, dass...

On 22 May 1826, HMS Beagle left Plymouth Sound on her maiden voyage, accompanying HMS Adventure to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego to survey the Strait of Magellan. Years later, Royal Naval officer John Macdouall (fl.1820 30) proclaimed himself 'one whose visit to Port Famine, and sometime residence on that inhospitable coast, have left no wish of re-visiting it, really or metaphorically'. Nevertheless, his first-hand account of the first nineteen months of the Beagle's voyage, originally published in 1833, is a highly entertaining read. With an amusing combination of self-deprecation and...