Robinson Island
TO BE PRESERVED AS A NATIONAL PARK The Government of Chile has decided to make a national park of Robinson Crusoe'B is land in the Pacific, Juan Fernandez. The cavo where lived Alexander Selkirk, the original of Robinson Crusoe, the look-out from which he watched for passing ships and his other associations will now be in the care of keepers, and guides will be available for visitors to the island. This scapegrace son of $ shoemaker, Alexander Selkirk, ran away- to sea and rose to be sailing master in one of Captain Dampier'B privateers in the South Seas. In September, 1704, he quarrelled with his captain and had himself landed with his effects on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez. He lived there till January, 1709, when Captain Woodes Rogers took him on board. . . Captain Rogers told his story m a book three years later, and it was mostly from this account that Defoe built up his immortal story for boys.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 31 (Supplement)
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162Robinson Island New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 31 (Supplement)
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