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Beagle Gulf Beagle Gulf is the body of water into which Port Darwin opens. On the west it opens into the Timor Sea and on the east Clarence Strait separates it from Van Diemen Gulf. Bathurst Island bounds it to the north. It is approximately 100 km long and 50 km wide.〔Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places.〕 It surrounds the Quail Island Group. == Name ==
It was named after the ship HMS ''Beagle'', on which Charles Darwin and Robert Fitzroy sailed around parts of Australia. The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places incorrectly states that "it was named in 1836 by Robert Fitzroy, commander of HMS Beagle, after his ship. The Beagle charted the area with Charles Darwin aboard as naturalist." However, Darwin and Fitzroy sailed in 1836 from King George's Sound (Western Australia) directly to the Cocos-Keeling Islands, at the south coast of Java, and from there to Cape Town and back to England. They stayed away from Beagle Gulf by 3000 sea miles and did not know of its existence.〔Alan Powell: ''(Who Named Beagle Gulf?: A Cautionary Tale ). Journal of Northern Territory History, No. 22, 2011: 104-108. ISSN: 1034-7488. Cited on 29 Oct 2012.〕 The gulf was actually named by Captain John Clements Wickham, commanding the HMS Beagle during its survey of northern Australia in 1837-1838, at the beginning of her third and last long voyage.
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