“ ...The Volcanic origin…is but too plainly evident: Passed a point studded over with little truncated cones…; the craters were very perfect &…red-coloured within. The whole had even more a work-shop appearance than…Chatham Island.”
September 29th 1835
“Albermarle I. is…the mainland of the Archipelago, it is about 75 miles long & several broard. is composed of 6 or 7 great Volcanic Mounds from 2 to 3000 ft high, joined by low land formed of Lava…The little of the country I have yet seen…is more arid & sterile than in the other Islands.”
October 1 1835
Charles Darwin The Journal of a Voyage in H.M.S. Beagle
