Robinson Crusoe Island is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated 670 km west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is the more populous of the inhabited islands in
SMS Dresden, just prior to its scuttling in Cumberland Bay
April 2005 view of the town of San Juan Bautista, on the north coast at Cumberland Bay
Robinson Crusoe Island, seen from CS Responder during work on a nuclear test ban hydroacoustic monitoring station in 2014
A fisherman with two spiny lobsters off Robinson Crusoe Island
Robinson Crusoe is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and has been de
Robinson Crusoe Island
…1704 to 1709, the island was home to the marooned Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, who at least partially inspired novelist Daniel Defoe's fictional Robinson Crusoe in his 1719 novel, although the novel is explicitly set in the Caribbean. This was just one of several survival stories from the period of which Defoe…
Title page from the first edition
The route taken by Robinson Crusoe over the Pyrenees mountains in chapters 19 and 20 of Defoe's novel, as envisaged by Joseph Ribas [fr]
Statue of Robinson Crusoe at Alexander Selkirk's birthplace of Lower Largo in Scotland, by Thomas Stuart Burnett
Book on Alexander Selkirk