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The Mirror
Stillwater, Washington County, Minnesota
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The Chilean government is considering turning Juan Fernandez Island, famously linked to Alexander Selkirk but mistakenly called Robinson Crusoe's island, into a national park and tourist resort. The text clarifies the geographical and historical misconceptions associating it with Defoe's fictional character.
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The Chilean Government is said to be contemplating the making of a national park, and tourists' resort on "Robinson Crusoe's island of Juan Fernandez." The islands of Juan Fernandez were, as is well known, the scene of Alexander Selkirk's five years' exile, but Robinson Crusoe never saw or heard of them. They are in the Pacific ocean, some hundreds of miles west of Chile, whereas Robinson Crusoe was said—by Defoe to have been wrecked in the Atlantic ocean, off the north-east coast of South America not far from the mouth of the Orinoco river. In the face of these indisputable statements what reason is there to associate Juan Fernandez, many thousand miles away on the opposite coast of the South American continent, with Robinson Crusoe?—Ex.
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Juan Fernandez, Chile
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chilean government contemplating creation of national park and tourist resort
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Chilean Government considering national park and tourists' resort on Juan Fernandez islands, historically site of Alexander Selkirk's exile but incorrectly associated with Robinson Crusoe, located in Pacific west of Chile; Crusoe's shipwreck described by Defoe as in Atlantic near Orinoco River.