In 2023, almost two centuries after Darwin wrote his theory of evolution on a voyage on the Beagle, a ship set sail to retrace his journey. It arrived back in Falmouth last month. Larissa Clark from the Darwin200 project tells us how it went – in pictures.

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Image: Arthur Smeets

During the Darwin200 Global Voyage , Dutch tall ship the Oosterschelde sailed to Chile’s Brüggen Glacier, a vast river of ice in the Patagonian wilderness and one of South America’s largest glaciers. The crew explored this awe-inspiring landscape, witnessing the dramatic effects of climate change firsthand. Just days later, they encountered the planet’s largest living creatures, blue whales surfacing off the coast.

The majestic, three-masted vessel spent two years on its epic 43,000-nautical-mi

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