2 of Chile's Juan Fernandez Islands are named for Alexander Selkirk & this fictional castaway he inspired
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Debunking the Myth of the 'Real' Robinson Crusoe - National ...  Sep 29, 2016 ... Alexander Selkirk was marooned on an island for more than four years. ... fictional Crusoeplus one unusual similarity between the two. ... one of the Juan Fernndez Islands off the coast of Chile, in 1704. ... Lambert thinks the character of Friday was partly inspired by a real-life Miskito Indian named Will,...
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Inspiration for Crusoe : Change Stirs Castaway's Fabled Isle - latimes  Jan 12, 1988 ... In 1704, a Scottish seaman named Alexander Selkirk, who had ... Inspiration for Crusoe : Change Stirs Castaway's Fabled Isle ... He ate the meat of wild goats, used their skins for shelter and ... A jagged uprising of volcanic palisades and peaks, it is the larger of the two main Juan Fernandez Islands, but...
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1000+ ideas about Alexander Selkirk on Pinterest | Islands, Bristol ...  Von Karman cloud vortices above Alexander Selkirk Island, Chile ..... How Castaway Survivor Alexander Selkirk Inspired the Tale of . .... 2 fvrier 1709  Alexander Selkirk, le vrai Robinson Cruso, est recueilli aprs 52 ..... His captain left him stranded alone on the island of Juan Fernndez after he voiced security concerns...
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Alexander Selkirk - Wikipedia  Alexander Selkirk (1676  13 December 1721) was a Scottish sailor who spent more than four years as a castaway (17041709) after being marooned on an uninhabited island in the ... The ship called in for provisions at the Juan Fernndez Islands off Chile, and Selkirk ... Whether he was the inspiration has been disputed.
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1000+ ideas about Alexander Selkirk on Pinterest | Islands, Bristol ...  Von Karman cloud vortices above Alexander Selkirk Island, Chile. ... the campsite of castaway Alexander Selkirk, thought to be the inspiration for ..... 2 fvrier 1709. ..... His captain left him stranded alone on the island of Juan Fernndez after he ..... After Daniel Defoe wrote the fictional Crusoe's adventures (which were...
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Islands shared by more than one country - Straight Dope Message Board  8) Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego - Chile, Argentina. ... The boundary generally avoids passing through islands, so I suspect these may be little more than ... 2. Just north of Twentyfive Island 48 deg 21 min N, 92 deg 6 min W .... technically foreign soil, so they are sharing their island with a lot of countries.
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Juan Ponce de Len - Explorer - Biography.com  Jul 28, 2015 ... After sailing on Christopher Columbus's second voyage to the New World, ... He soon returned to Puerto Rico, bringing his wife and children. ... Though the Spanish crown had given some ground to Ponce de ... named military governor of Bimini and Florida, securing permission to colonize those regions.
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History - St Helena | Secret of the South Atlantic  St Helena is an island of volcanic origin and is now a British Overseas ... Britain's second oldest colony, one of the most isolated islands in the world, was for ... used the island as a place of exile, most notably for Napoleon Bonaparte, Dinizulu ... Another famous astronomer was to start his career on St. Helena as a young...
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The Strait of Magellan | 2010 | JAXA Earth Observation Research ...  Dec 21, 2010 ... caption on; caption off. Fig. 1. Satellite Imagery of the Southern Tip of South America ... The big island of Fuego (Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego), with an area of ... Canal, is 240 km long and named in honor of the Beagle expedition. ... of Tierra del Fuego by Magellan, on board the Beagle, Darwin stopped...
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Genetics rewrites Pacific prehistory  Apr 28, 2006 ... Thor showed that slow moving sailing rafts would foster marine growth, creating their own ecosystem. ... He was later to find in Peru, confirmation of the legend of Con Tiki ... In his 1952 book 'American Indians in the Pacific', he came to the .... The traditional name for the Haida homeland of Queen Charlotte...
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jeopardy/10 at master  towski/jeopardy  GitHub  ... once called Ilhas Dos Papuas, or \"Island of the Fuzzy Hairs\"","category":"ISLANDS","value":"$200" ..... R. Murrow"},{"question":"Proust organized petitions for this French soldier, unjustly sentenced in 1894 to imprisonment on Devil's Island"...
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Vancouver in Hawai'i - eVols  CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER has long been overshadowed by the name and ... opened the Hawaiian Islands to Western exploitation; Vancouver assisted the ... serve on Cook's second voyage which was then preparing to return to the Pacific. .... When repairs were completed, the two ships, now under the command of...
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On Stranger Tides Tidbit #22 ~ Ponce de Leon and The Fountain of ...  Mar 16, 2011 ... In 1508, Ferdinand II of Aragon gave permission to Ponce de Len for ... He would be governor for life of any lands he discovered but he was ... In addition, the contract gave specific instructions for the distribution ... After leaving Puerto Rico, they sailed northwest along the great ..... I had to look this one up:
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Alexander Selkirk - Wikipedia  Alexander Selkirk (1676  13 December 1721) was a Scottish sailor who spent more than four ... His story of survival was widely publicised when he returned home and ... of inspiration for writer Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe. .... I am monarch of all I survey, ..... Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719).
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jeopardy/2899_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SOUTH AMERICA | Alphabetically, they're the first & last of the 7 countries where the Andes are found | Argentina & Venezuela. right: Brandon. Wrong:.
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The Voyage of the Endeavour - Project Gutenberg Australia  II How Captain Cook failed to find a Southern Continent, .... Now Serrano had a dear friend, named Ferdinand Magellan, who had fought by his side ... He understood the natives to say that the Straits were close by, and that, after passing ... and called it a "large island," which seems to show that they knew something about...
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Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia  The Pitcairn Islands or officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the last British ... The islands are inhabited mostly by descendants of the Bounty mutineers ... Pitcairn Island was sighted on 3 July 1767 by the crew of the British sloop...
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Robinson Crusoe - Shmoop  It's an adventure novel about a castaway and his friend Friday: The Life and Strange ... to the novel that same year called The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. ... His name was Alexander Selkirk, and he was a Scottish sailor who got stranded on his ... The novel is basically our title character's spiritual autobiography.
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The Myth of Ponce de Len and the Fountain of Youth - History in ...  Apr 2, 2013 ... On April 2, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Len and his crew became ... Spanish sources asserted that the Taino Indians of the Caribbean also ... In 1508 he received royal permission to colonize San Juan Bautista (now Puerto Rico). He became the island's first governor a year later, but was soon...
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Punta Arenas: following the Ferdinand Magellan route - Atlas & Boots  Dec 16, 2015 ... Punta Arenas overlooks the Strait of Magellan on the Ferdinand Magellan route ... The Magellan Strait is named after Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer who ... What: Visiting Museo Nao Victoria in Punta Arenas, Chile. ... weather so do not visit during South America's winter (June to September).
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Martin Alonzo Pinzon: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com  His brother, Vicente Yez Pinzon, commanded the Nina; his other brother, Francisco ... the orders of Columbus during the voyage to the Americas (1492-1493).