Juan Fernández Islands

This is the first time that the 9T prefix has been used, so pileups should be huge.

From the Juan Fernandez Islands, which is Charlie Echo Zero Zulu, we have this.

The X-Ray Zero Zulu team reports that key expedition equipment has successfully reached Alexander Selkirk Island, which is IOTA SA-101, in the Juan Fernandez Islands chain, marking an important step toward their planned early October operation.

Fuel supplies, a Honda EU-22i generator, and several antennas have been landed at the village of Selkirk and will remain safely stored there until the operators arrive.

The team says morale is high after months of planning, especially because reaching the remote island requires careful coordination by sea and on the ground.

This is the first time that the 9T prefix has been used, so pileups should be huge.

From the Juan Fernandez Islands, which is Charlie Echo Zero Zulu, we have this.

The X-Ray Zero Zulu team reports that key expedition equipment has successfully reached Alexander Selkirk Island, which is IOTA SA-101, in the Juan Fernandez Islands chain, marking an important step toward their planned early October operation.

Fuel supplies, a Honda EU-22i generator, and several antennas have been landed at the village of Selkirk and will remain safely stored there until the operators arrive.

The team says morale is high after months of planning, especially because reaching the remote island requires careful coordination by sea and on the ground.

Then leave your sweethearts for a while, And try again the main.

we'll make the dawn supply our wants ere we come back again my boys ere we c old buccaneer's song the life and adventures of alexander selkirk containing the real incidents upon which the romance of robinson crusoe is founded in which also the events of his life drawn from authentic sources are traced from his birth in 1676 till his death in 1723, with an appendix comprising a description of the island of Juan Fernandez and some curious information relating to his shipmates, etc.

INTRODUCTION The first perusal of the adventures of Robinson Crusoe forms an era not the least important in the pleasures which the young mind derives from the divine gift of letters.

so complete is the illusion and so powerful the description that we feel a sensation of regret when maturer years and increasing knowledge force upon us the conviction that the faithful friday with all his innocent simplicity is only a creature of the imagination that even robinson himself whose every adventure is treasured in our memory was not a real individual but almost wholly produced by the powerful fancy of an author which has embellished the incidents that befell a british sailor who for upwards of four years lived deprived of all human society upon the island of juan fernandez No sooner is this known than a laudable desire is felt to learn as much as possible of the individual whose remarkable destiny forms the groundwork of those adventures which pleased us so much.

To supply this desideratum, and to gratify that love of truth which the wise and bountiful Creator has implanted in every breast, no care or labor has been spared.

The parish records of Largo, the place of Alexander Selkirk's birth, have been searched.

it may be noticed here that the family of william the son of alexander's eldest brother existed one hundred ten years john the eldest son and father of my friend having been born in the year seventeen fourteen and the last surviving daughter having died in eighteen twenty four besides the information obtained from his relations i have had recourse to other sources many of which are now become scarce and accessible only to few these are as follows one a voyage round the world containing captain dampier's expedition into the south seas and the st george with the author's voyage from amapala to east india by william funnel london seventeen o seven This work contains an account of his adventures from the period that the St. George and the Cinque Ports Galley sailed from Cork until the separation of Dampier and Stradling near Tobago, May 19, 1704.

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The antennas that they plan to set up are five element Yagi for six meters, six band hex beams, a 30 meter loop and verticals for 160, 80, 40, 60 and 30 plus a DHDL receiving antenna.

We have the Juan Fernandez Islands, which is Charlie Echo Zero Zulu.

Charlie Echo 3, Victor Tango Zulu, and X-Way Quebec 7 India Radio, Moises and Philippe, are going there for 10 days or so in October.

They plan on 160 through 10 meters, FT8CW and sideband.

Then leave your sweethearts for a while, And try again the main.

we'll make the dawn supply our wants ere we come back again my boys ere we c old buccaneer's song the life and adventures of alexander selkirk containing the real incidents upon which the romance of robinson crusoe is founded in which also the events of his life drawn from authentic sources are traced from his birth in 1676 till his death in 1723, with an appendix comprising a description of the island of Juan Fernandez and some curious information relating to his shipmates, etc.

INTRODUCTION The first perusal of the adventures of Robinson Crusoe forms an era not the least important in the pleasures which the young mind derives from the divine gift of letters.

so complete is the illusion and so powerful the description that we feel a sensation of regret when maturer years and increasing knowledge force upon us the conviction that the faithful friday with all his innocent simplicity is only a creature of the imagination that even robinson himself whose every adventure is treasured in our memory was not a real individual but almost wholly produced by the powerful fancy of an author which has embellished the incidents that befell a british sailor who for upwards of four years lived deprived of all human society upon the island of juan fernandez No sooner is this known than a laudable desire is felt to learn as much as possible of the individual whose remarkable destiny forms the groundwork of those adventures which pleased us so much.

To supply this desideratum, and to gratify that love of truth which the wise and bountiful Creator has implanted in every breast, no care or labor has been spared.

The parish records of Largo, the place of Alexander Selkirk's birth, have been searched.

it may be noticed here that the family of william the son of alexander's eldest brother existed one hundred ten years john the eldest son and father of my friend having been born in the year seventeen fourteen and the last surviving daughter having died in eighteen twenty four besides the information obtained from his relations i have had recourse to other sources many of which are now become scarce and accessible only to few these are as follows one a voyage round the world containing captain dampier's expedition into the south seas and the st george with the author's voyage from amapala to east india by william funnel london seventeen o seven This work contains an account of his adventures from the period that the St. George and the Cinque Portes Galley sailed from Cork until the separation of Dampier and Stradling near Tobago, May 19, 1704.

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Green mangosteens are apt to produce colic, as Fred can tell you of his own knowledge.

robinson crusoe's island the island of juan fernandez has always been said to be the island on which robinson crusoe was cast away nothing can be further from the truth crusoe never saw juan fernandez and so far as we know never once so much as thought of casting himself away there no man has ever charged robinson crusoe with not telling the truth he may have had his faults and he certainly did show very little judgment when he built his first boat so far from the shore that he could not possibly launch it but he always told the truth we ought therefore to believe what he says about the situation of his island he informs me that having sailed from brazil on a voyage to the coast of guinea he was driven northward by stormy weather and was finally wrecked somewhere between the mouth of the river orinoco and the caribbean or west india islands now the island of juan fernandez is in the pacific ocean about three hundred and sixty miles southwest of valparaiso to suppose that crusoe was wrecked on juan fernandez while on his way from brazil to guinea is like saying that a ship on her way from new york to liverpool was wrecked on one of the sandwich islands such a story would be perfectly absurd however when we have crusoe's word that he was cast away near the mouth of the orinoco there is an end of the matter he probably could not have told a lie if he had tried to in the year seventeen four an english vessel called cinque ports came to juan fernandez one of her officers alexander selkirk by name had quarreled with the captain and he said he would much rather stay on this island than sail any longer on board the cinque ports the captain was glad to get rid of him, and therefore sailed away and left him behind.

What Selkirk and the captain had quarreled about has never been certainly known, but when we reflect that Selkirk was a Scotchman, we can understand that very likely he was unwilling to practice piracy on Sunday, while the captain insisted that any day was a fit day on which to rob a Spanish ship.

This would have led to a quarrel, and very possibly was the precise cause of the quarrel which resulted in Selkirk leaving the ship at Juan Fernandez.

It is true that the Cinque Portes was called a buccaneer instead of a pirate, but no man can see the difference between buccaneering and piracy without the help of a large-sized compound microscope.

Selkirk remained all alone on the island for four years and four months, when another English vessel took him off.

when he reached home he wrote an account of his adventures and very stupid people have since claimed that daniel defoe the author of the story of crusoe's adventures had read selkirk's book and that it suggested to him the idea of inventing robinson crusoe to suppose that so great a man as defoe could not write a book without stealing his ideas from alexander selkirk is ridiculous selkirk and crusoe were as unlike as two men could well be the only resemblance between them was that both had lived alone on unfrequented islands as many other unfortunate men have done before and since we thus see how it came to pass that people have mixed up selkirk's island with crusoe's island and have finally convinced themselves that crusoe was wrecked on juan fernandez selkirk's island is firmly believed by nearly everybody to have been crusoe's island though we might just as well call it smith's or jones's island it must be admitted that juan fernandez is a beautiful island with every convenience that crusoe could have wished for except cannibals selkirk however could do nothing with it he did contrive to catch goats by running after them until they were tired out but he never thought of taming them fattening them on tomato cans as crusoe did of course he never had a man friday and he never built himself a canoe or a periagua in fact he did very little that was creditable to him and there is only too much reason to believe that if he had seen a footstep on the sand he would not have known that it was his duty to be terribly frightened juan fernandez is about sixteen miles long and five and a half miles wide the shore especially on the northern side is steep and rocky the interior is very picturesque and contains several beautiful valleys separated by high ridges on the north side of the island is a very steep mountain of lava which is eight thousand feet high the top of which is said to be inaccessible part way up this mountain is the place where selkirk used to watch for passing vessels in one of the valleys there was a cave where selkirk lived it is thirty feet in length and about twenty feet in breadth with a ceiling of nearly twenty feet in height while it is a fair substantial cave it cannot be compared for a moment with the cave which crusoe had on his own island and which he enlarged with so much perseverance the island belongs to chili and more than a hundred years ago the chilian government sent convicts to juan fernandez as a punishment a fort was built which has now crumbled away and cells were dug in the solid rock on the side of a hill and the convicts were locked up in them every night the convicts not liking their treatment rebelled killed their guards and seizing on a vessel that had visited the island escaped to peru since then juan fernandez or mas a tierra as the chileans call it has been inhabited by a few chilean farmers who raise with very little labor food enough to live on they also catch fish which they send to the mainland and at certain seasons of the year they kill large quantities of seals which frequent a little rocky island half a mile from juan de fernandez at the present time the island is governed by mr rhodes who rents it from the chilian government and proposes to raise quantities of cattle in eighteen sixty eight the british man-of-war topaz touched at juan fernandez and her officers erected an iron tablet in honor of selkirk it bears the following inscription in memory of alexander selkirk mariner a native of largo in the county of fife scotland who lived on this island in complete solitude for four years and four months he was landed from the cinque ports galley ninety six tons sixteen guns a d seventeen four and was taken off in the duc privateer twelfth february seventeen nine he died lieutenant of h m s weymouth a d seventeen twenty two aged forty seven years This tablet is erected near Selkirk's Lookout by Commodore Powell and the officers of HMS Topaz, A.D. 1868. there is excellent water at juan fernandez vessels occasionally touch there to fill their casks but it has no regular communication with the rest of the world of course juan fernandez will always continue to be called robinson crusoe's island though it is certain that crusoe was never within three or four thousand miles of it as for the unbelieving people who pretend that robinson crusoe never lived nobody should listen to them for a moment there never was anybody more thoroughly real than Robinson Crusoe.

Selkirk was not half so real, and in comparison with the shipwrecked Mariner of Hull, Julius Caesar was grossly improbable.