Beagle Gulf
The Beagle Gulf ( German Beagle Gulf) is the water surface on which Darwin, capital of Australia's Northern Territory, is located. In the west, it flows into the Timor Sea and in the east it connects the Clarence Strait with the Van Diemen Gulf. Bathurst Iceland limited him in the north. It is about 100 km long and 50 km wide. It surrounds the Quail Iceland Group. The Ria -like bays Port Darwin are on the south coast of the Bay ( with the city of Darwin) and Bynoe Harbour.
Name
The Golf was named after the ship HMS Beagle on which Charles Darwin and Robert Fitzroy sailed to parts of Australia, named. The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places contains the erroneous statement that " he was named in 1836 by Robert Fitzroy, the captain of HMS Beagle, after his ship. The Beagle, this area has been mapped by Charles Darwin as a naturalist on board. "However, Darwin and Fitzroy in 1836 sailed from King George Sound (Western Australia) directly to the Cocos Islands to the south coast of Java and from there via Cape Town back to England. They stayed from the Beagle Gulf about 3000 nautical miles away and could not know of its existence.