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

Excavations 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 identifi ed as being from a pair of navigational dividers

Scotland, Hebrides, West coast: Sound of Harris to Aird Bhreidhnis, including Lochs Tarbert & Resort / surveyed by commander F.W.L. Thomas 1860 ; drawn by Edw. J. Powell ; engraved by J. & C. Walker ; published at the Admiralty

1 Mapa, b/n. Published at the Admiralty under the superintendence of capt. Washington. - Entelat98 x 68 c

Scotland, Hebrides, West coast: Sound of Harris to Aird Bhreidhnis, including Lochs Tarbert & Resort / surveyed by commander F.W.L. Thomas 1860 ; drawn by Edw. J. Powell ; engraved by J. & C. Walker ; published at the Admiralty

1 Mapa, b/n. Published at the Admiralty under the superintendence of capt. Washington. - Entelat98 x 68 c