User:Dr.Gulliver/sandbox/Simple Robinson Crusoe Island

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Town of San Juan Bautista, Robinson Crusoe Island

Robinson Crusoe Island is the largest of three islands in a South Pacific archipelago belonging to Chile. The island used to be called Más a Tierra. In 1966, Chile renamed it Robinson Crusoe Island, because a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk had lived about four years alone there. His story of survival may have led Daniel Defoe to write the book Robinson Crusoe. Today, more than 800 people live on the island, which lies 672 km (418 mi) from the coast of South America.


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