Charles Darwin
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Introduction
Volcanic islands (1844) was the second part of Darwin’s planned ‘geology of the Beagle’. It included his descriptions of the geology of Australia and South Africa and sits between Coral reefs (1842) and South America (1846). He published his descriptions of the Falklands in a separate paper in 1846 (Darwin 1846). Although they are islands the Falklands are geologically continental and form a nice link between Darwin’s work on South America and South Africa.