Alexander Selkirk
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title:
Alexander Selkirk
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Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. He survived but died from tropical illness years later while serving as a lieutenant aboard HMS Weymouth off West Africa. Selkirk was an unruly youth and joined buccaneering voyages to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession. One such e
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18th-century Scottish sailor and castaway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk
date created:
2001-10-19T02:28:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T14:18:56Z
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