Robinson Crusoe Island
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© NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.Public Domain
Area
48 km²
Coordinates
-33.6167, -78.8500
Category
islands
Overview
The Juan Fernández island that marooned the sailor who inspired Defoe's castaway.
About
Robinson Crusoe Island is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated 670 km west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is the more populous of the inhabited islands in the archipelago, with most of that in the town of San Juan Bautista at Cumberland Bay on the island's north coast. The island was formerly known as Más a Tierra.
More about Robinson Crusoe Island
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