Excavation at Aguas Buenas, Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, of a gunpowder magazine and the supposed campsite of Alexander Selkirk, together with an account of early navigational dividers
2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 41; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1179/174581307x236157
ISSN1745-8137
AutoresDaisuke Takahashi, David H. Caldwell, Iván Franco Cáceres, Mauricio Calderón, A. D. Morrison-Low, Miguel A. Saavedra, Jim Tate,
Tópico(s)Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
ResumoExcavations were undertaken of a ruined building at Aguas Buenas, identified as an 18th-century Spanish gunpowder magazine. Evidence was also found for the campsite of an early European occupant of the island. A case is made that this was Alexander Selkirk, a castaway here from 1704 to 1709. Selkirk was the model for Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. A detailed discussion is given of a fragment of copper alloy identified as being from a pair of navigational dividers.
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