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HMS Volcano was a Hermes-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was launched in 1836. Her first few commissions...

1831. HMS Volcano (1836) was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1836. She became a floating factory in 1862 and was broken up in 1894. HMS Volcano was to...

HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of...

The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander...

constant menace. Most famously, these ships included HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. In this case, the volcanoes – Mount Erebus and Mount Terror on Ross Island in...

explorer George Vancouver who surveyed the area in the late 18th century. The volcano is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire...

based upon observations made during a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836. Darwin's explanation suggests that several tropical island types:...

action as commander of HMS Juno, a fifth-rate 32-gun frigate, between 1798 and 1802. In 1803 he was given the command of HMS Elephant, a 74-gun third-rate...

trapped in Baffin Bay. They accepted his offer, and he set sail in HMS Cove in January 1836. The crossing was difficult, and by the time he had reached the...

islands and parts of South America visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle") - volcanoes rise by slow, gradual and episodic events". The Barn is a capping...

526 ft), the two separated by a depression which is the caldera of the Raoul volcano. Evidence from archaeological sites on the northern coast of Raoul Island...

activity. Maupiti, the oldest island in the chain, is a highly eroded shield volcano with at least 12 thin lava flows, which accumulated fairly rapidly between...

of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the...

Keynes, Richard, ed. (2000), "June – August 1836", Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes & Specimen Lists from H.M.S. Beagle, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

goats as a potential source of meat for future mariners. In February 1701, HMS Roebuck, commanded by William Dampier, sank in the common anchoring spot...

becomes part of the crown lands of the Habsburg monarchy. August 12 – The volcano Mount Papandayan in West Java erupts and partially collapses, the debris...

Retrieved 25 November 2023. "Alaska Volcano Observatory - Volcanoes of the world: an illustrated catalog of Holocene volcanoes and their eruptions". avo.alaska...

He was the first recorded European to reach the summit of the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa and introduced the Monkey Puzzle tree to England. Menzies was...

Island, similar to — but more than twice as large as — the older Dunedin volcano (Otago Peninsula and Harbour) 350 kilometres (220 mi) to the southwest...

died as a result. 1831–1833: Egyptian–Ottoman War. 1831–1836: Charles Darwin's journey aboard HMS Beagle. France invades and occupies Algeria. Ioannis Kapodistrias...