1/x Several times a day, the BBC reads out a list of sea areas, and one of them is named after a man. He took Darwin around the world, invented the weather forecast, was mocked in Parliament and the press for it, and died broken and in debt. Robert FitzRoy. A 🧵
1/x Several times a day, the BBC reads out a list of sea areas, and one of them is named after a man. He took Darwin around the world, invented the weather forecast, was mocked in Parliament and the press for it, and died broken and in debt. Robert FitzRoy. A 🧵