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Evolution of radar points to HMS Beagle's resting place
Robin McKie, science editor
Sunday February 15, 2004
The Observer
After being sold for scrap in 1870, the ship forever linked with Darwin may
be lying beneath the Essex marshes
One of the world's most enduring naval mysteries - the fate of HMS Beagle,
the ship that carried Charles Darwin round the world and led him to develop
his theory of natural selection - may finally have been solved.
Advanced ground-penetrating radar could have located the ship, which
disappeared more than a century ago, near Potton Island in Essex. The
discovery has been made by one of the world's leading marine archaeologists,
Robert Prescott of St Andrews University. 'I am quietly confident we have
found the Beagle,' he said.
The discovery suggests that the bulk of the ship is intact and could be
raised and restored. 'The Beagle is a historic icon and would make a superb
centre of scientific pilgrimage,' said Prescott.
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