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* William Cowper's The Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk is about the feelings of Alexander Selkirk as he lived all alone on the island.
Gilbert's Bab Ballads, Selkirk is used as a model for the English castaways:
All of the guests are seated and grace is said, usually using the Selkirk Grace, a well-known thanksgiving said before meals, using the Scots language.
* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
It is south-west of Jedburgh and south-southeast of Selkirk.
It is similar ( but not identical by any means ) to the dialects spoken in surrounding towns, especially Jedburgh, Langholm and Selkirk.
The Juan Fernández Islands ( Spanish: Archipiélago Juan Fernández ) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands ; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first two being formerly called Más Adentro and Más Afuera respectively.
Alexander Selkirk is ; its highest peak is Los Innocentes at.
Radiometric dating indicates that Santa Clara is the oldest of the islands, 5. 8 million years old, followed by Robinson Crusoe, 3. 8 – 4. 2 million years old, and Alexander Selkirk, 1. 0 – 2. 4 million years old.
Alexander Selkirk is mostly covered with grassland from 0 to 400 meters, interspersed with wooded ravines ( quebradas ), home to dry forests of Myrceugenia and Zanthoxylum fagara.
The William Norrie Centre on Selkirk Avenue is the campus for social work education for inner-city residents.
* February 2 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Defoe's immediate inspiration for Crusoe is usually thought to be a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was rescued in 1709 by Woodes Rogers ' expedition after four years on the uninhabited island of Más a Tierra in the Juan Fernández Islands off the Chilean coast.
However, Robinson Crusoe is far from a copy of Woodes Rogers ' account: Selkirk was marooned at his own request, while Crusoe was shipwrecked ; the islands are different ; Selkirk lived alone for the whole time, while Crusoe found companions ; while Selkirk stayed on his island for four years, not twenty-eight.
Furthermore, much of the appeal of Defoe's novel is the detailed and captivating account of Crusoe's thoughts, occupations and activities which goes far beyond that of Rogers ' basic descriptions of Selkirk, which account for only a few pages.
The Selkirk Rex is a breed of cat with highly curled hair.
The Selkirk Rex is distinct from all other Rex breeds.
It differs from the LaPerm in that the Selkirk Rex coat is plusher and thicker.
While the LaPerm gene is a simple dominant, the Selkirk gene ( Se ) acts as an incomplete dominant ; incompletely dominant, allele pairs produce three possible genotypes and phenotypes: heterozygous cats ( Sese ) may have a fuller coat that is preferred in the show ring, while homozygous cats ( SeSe ) may have a tighter curl and less coat volume.

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Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

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* 1987: Out of This World ( TV series ) 1987-1991 Lindsay Selkirk 78 episodes

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The Selkirk settlers had been anticipated in their move southward by British fur traders.
It was Dickson who suggested to Lord Selkirk that he return to the Atlantic coast by way of the United States.
An unruly youth, Selkirk joined several buccaneering expeditions to the South Seas, including one commanded by William Dampier, which called in for provisions at the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
Selkirk was discovered by the Dukes captain, Woodes Rogers, who referred to him as Governor of the island.
Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.
On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.
Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.
* " The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk " by John Howell ( 1829 ) from Google Books
* " The story of Alexander Selkirk " ( 1841 ) by Samuel Griswald on the Internet Archive
It came to be called the Selkirk Grace because Burns was said to have delivered it at a dinner given by the Earl of Selkirk.
The islands have an area of, of which are taken up by Robinson Crusoe ( together with Santa Clara ), and by Alexander Selkirk.
Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
The story was perhaps influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called " Más a Tierra " ( in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island ), Chile.
An enquiry set up by James in 1424 into the dispersal of crown estates since the reign of Robert I exposed legal defects in a number of transactions where the earldoms of Mar, March and Strathearn together with the Black Douglas lordships of Selkirk and Wigtown were found to be problematic.
Ettrick was named around 1765 by the foreign merchant Neil Buchanan, who dubbed the eventual village Ettrick Banks for its similarities to his native Ettrick area of Selkirk, Scotland.

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Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands, conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red River of the North.
Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.
It was the low yield of the Selkirk plots and the ravages of grasshoppers in 1818 that led to the dispersal of the settlement southward.
These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.
During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.
Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.
This epic effort to secure seed for the colony cost Selkirk Ab1,040.
Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.
As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.
Accordingly, though the practice violated the no-trading provision of the Selkirk charter which reserved all such activity in merchandise and furs to the Hudson's Bay Company, some settlers went into trade.
* 1852 – Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.
Selkirk judged correctly that his craft, the Cinque Ports, was unseaworthy, and was given the choice of being left ashore on his own.
The son of a shoemaker and tanner in Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland, Selkirk was born in 1676.
While Dampier was captain of the St. George, Selkirk served on the galley Cinque Ports, the St. Georges companion, as a sailing master serving under Thomas Stradling.
By this time, Selkirk had grave concerns about the seaworthiness of this vessel.
Selkirk promptly regretted his decision.
Selkirk lived the next four years and four months without any human company.
Hearing strange sounds from inland, which he feared were dangerous beasts, Selkirk remained at first along the shoreline.
Selkirk proved resourceful in using equipment from the ship as well as materials that were native to the island.

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