Button Island, Near Woollya. Copper engraving from 1838 by Thomas Landseer, art by Conrad Martens, published by Henry Colburn in Robert Fitzroy's "Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle", Volume II, 1839. Fitzroy's own agenda on the Voyage of the Beagle with Darwin was to return some native Fuegians he had taken on a previous voyage and tried to "civilize" in Britain. One of them was Jemmy Button (traded for a button) after whom this island is presumably named.
Button Island from Darwin's Beagle Voyage
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