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==External links== {{Wikisourcehas|1=the original text of William Cowper's|2=[[:Wikisource:The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk|The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk]]}} {{DNB Poster|Selkirk, Alexander|Alexander Selkirk}} {{EB1911 poster|Selkirk, Alexander}} * [http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,605963,00.html "Trapped on a Pacific Island: Scientists Research the Real Robinson Crusoe"] by Marco Evers (6 Feb­ru­ary 2009) in ''[[Spiegel Online]]'' * [https://archive.today/20130202093840/http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/island-gives-up-secret-of-real-robinson-crusoe-1-1096982 "Island Gives Up Secret of Real Robinson Crusoe"] in ''[[The Scotsman]]'' (22 Sep­tem­ ber 2005) * [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-real-robinson-crusoe-74877644/ "The Real Robinson Crusoe"] by Bruce Selcraig (July 2005) in ''[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]'' * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070402052327/http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~tobi/fun/alex/alex.php An account of a trip to Selkirk's Island] by James S. Bruce and Mayme S. Bruce (Spring 1993) in ''The Explorers Journal'' *[https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0395911508 "On a Piece of Stone: Alexander Selkirk on Greater Land"] by Edward E. Leslie (1988) in ''Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors'' (pp. 61–85) *[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Juan+Fern%C3%A1ndez+Islands&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.956293,56.777344&hnear=Archipi%C3%A9lago+Juan+Fern%C3%A1ndez&ll=-33.641307,-78.829097&spn=0.025331,0.044074&t=f&z=15&ecpose=-33.61752429,-78.8220852,1039.22,-166.21,69.778,0 Satellite imagery of the Juan Fernández Islands] from [[Google Maps]] * {{librivox book | title=The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk | author=John HOWELL}} {{Gutenberg book|author=Howell, John|origyear=1841|no=70639|title=The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe|publisher=M. Day & Co.|location=New York, New York|language=en|bullet=no}} {{Pirates|state=collapsed}} {{Robinson Crusoe|state=collapsed}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Selkirk, Alexander}} [[Category:1676 births]] [[Category:1700s missing person cases]] [[Category:1721 deaths]] [[Category:18th century in Chile]] [[Category:18th-century Scottish people]] [[Category:Scottish privateers]] [[Category:Burials at sea]] [[Category:Castaways]] [[Category:Circumnavigators of the globe]] [[Category:Date of birth unknown]] [[Category:Deaths from yellow fever]] [[Category:Formerly missing British people]] [[Category:Juan Fernández Islands]] [[Category:Maritime folklore]] [[Category:People from Lower Largo]] [[Category:People who died at sea]] [[Category:Piracy in the Pacific Ocean]] [[Category:Robinson Crusoe]] [[Category:Scottish sailors]]
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