Alejandro Selkirk Island, previously known as Isla Más Afuera and renamed after Alexander Selkirk, is the second largest and most westernly island of the Juan Fernández Islands archipelago of the Valparaíso Region of Chile. It is situated 168 km (104 mi) west of Robinson Crusoe Island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
Read more about Alejandro Selkirk Island: Geography, Climate, Flora and Fauna, History, In Popular Culture
Famous quotes containing the word island:
“An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)