Editing Beagle Channel (section)

===Naming and Darwin visit===
The channel was named after the ship [[HMS Beagle|HMS ''Beagle'']] during its first [[hydrographic survey]] of the coasts of the southern part of South America which lasted from 1826 to 1830. During that expedition, under the overall command of Commander [[Phillip Parker King]], the ''Beagle''{{'s}} captain [[Pringle Stokes]] committed suicide and was replaced by captain [[Robert FitzRoy]]. The ship continued the survey in the [[second voyage of HMS Beagle|second voyage of ''Beagle'']] under the command of captain FitzRoy, who took [[Charles Darwin]] along as a self-funding [[wikt:supernumerary|supernumerary]], giving him opportunities as an amateur [[naturalist]]. Darwin had his first sight of [[glacier]]s when they reached the channel on 29 January 1833, and wrote in his field notebook  "It is scarcely possible to imagine anything more beautiful than the beryl-like blue of these glaciers, and especially as contrasted with the dead white of the upper expanse of snow."<ref>Charles Darwin, ''Voyage of the Beagle'' (New York: Collier, 1909), chapter 10, p. 240.</ref><ref name=glaciers>{{cite web |url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=A345&pageseq=2 |title=An 1830s View from Outside Switzerland: Charles Darwin on the "Beryl Blue" Glaciers of Tierra del Fuego |author=Herbert, Sandra |year= 1999 |publisher=Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae |pages=92, 339–46 |access-date=2008-12-22}}</ref>