biography
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| (1805–65)
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| biography:
| Naval officer and meteorologist, born near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, E England, UK. In command of the Beagle he surveyed the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (1828–30). In 1831, accompanied by Charles Darwin as scientific observer, he circumnavigated the globe in the Beagle, and collaborated with Darwin in publishing in 1839 a Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle. Appointed Governor of New Zealand in 1843, he was recalled in 1845 because he maintained that the Maoris had as much right to claim land as the settlers. In 1854 he was attached to the meteorological department of the board of trade. He invented the Fitzroy barometer, and instituted the storm warnings that developed into daily weather forecasts. |
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