Alexander
Selkirk's Island
Alexander Selkirk
was marooned on the larger of these two islands. In his day it was called
the Island of Juan Fernandez. In order to capitalize on tourism the Chilean
government renamed it Robinson Crusoe Island and changed the name of the
smaller Santa Clara Island to Selkirk Island.
Robinson Crusoe Island is a desolate,
rugged extinct volcano that sits in the Pacific Ocean about 400 miles west
of Valparaiso, Chile. Its 40 square miles of surface rise precipitously
out of the ocean and peaks at just over 3,000 feet (915 meters). The island
now has a population of about six hundred people, who mostly survive by
trapping lobsters.
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