Robinson Crusoe Island
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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
Alexander Selkirk
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Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited is
Robinson Crusoe Island
…north coast. The island was formerly known as Más a Tierra ('Closer to Land'). From 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…
Clad in goatskins, Selkirk awaits rescue in a sculpture by Thomas Stuart Burnett (1885)
The rescued Selkirk, seated at right, being taken aboard Duke.
An illustration of Crusoe in goatskin clothing shows the influence of Selkirk
Title page from The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe (1835), by an unknown author