Selkirk's story aroused great interest at home, and Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based in part on him.

In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.

On 1 January 1966 Selkirk's island was officially renamed Robinson Crusoe Island.

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 Real Robinson Crusoe ".

* Diana Souhami, Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe, ( 2001 ) ISBN 0-15-100526-5

* Daisuke Takahashi, In Search of Robinson Crusoe, ( 2002 ) ISBN 0-8154-1200-2

* " Diaries of swashbuckling hero who rescued Robinson Crusoe unearthed ", from Telegraph. co. uk, 5 January 2009.

Easter Island and Juan Fernández Archipelago, including Robinson Crusoe Island, are also major attractions.

His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe.

This so-called " first draft " for unification took place a full one-hundred years before the signing of the 1707 accord, which respectively preceded the commencement of Robinson Crusoe by another full ten years.

The extent and particulars of Defoe's writing in the period from the Tory fall in 1714 to the publication of Robinson Crusoe in 1719 is widely contested.

* Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 )

* The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 )

* Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world ( 1720 )

Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) tells of a man's shipwreck on a deserted island and his subsequent adventures.

Tim Severin's book Seeking Robinson Crusoe ( 2002 ) unravels a much wider range of potential sources of inspiration.

Severin concludes his investigations by stating that the real Robinson Crusoe figure was Henry Pitman, a castaway who had been surgeon to the Duke of Monmouth.

Two sequels followed, Defoe's The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) and his Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world ( 1720 ).

* Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 )

* The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 )

* Leon Robinson ( born 1962 ), African-American actor usually credited just as Leon

A few additional partial frets of wood are usually glued to the body of the instrument, to allow stopping the highest-pitched courses up to a full octave higher than the open string, though these are regarded anachronistic by some ( although John Dowland and Thomas Robinson describe the practice of gluing wooden frets onto the soundboard ).

Robinson returned to live in Ireland at the end of 2010, and has set up The Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, which aims to be ' a centre for thought leadership, education and advocacy on the struggle to secure global justice for those many victims of climate change who are usually forgotten-the poor, the disempowered and the marginalised across the world.

In the first year this usually takes the form of a study bedroom, whereas in the third year students tend to live on site in flats in either Wheeler Robinson House, the Gould Building or the Angus Building.

Production designer Bernard Robinson and cinematographer Jack Asher were instrumental in creating the lavish look of the early Hammer films, usually on a very restricted budget.

Robinson and others felt strongly that the " usually accepted limitations of photography had to be overcome if an equality of status was to be achieved.

Additional to the parade, the bands participate in a two day, three shows Bandfest at Pasadena City College's Robinson Stadium, usually take place on December 29 and 30 each year ( December 30 and 31, 2011 ).

Fred N. Robinson ( Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1957: 791 ) mentioned that " if the theories of allegory in the Parliament are rejected, the principal evidence usually relied on for dating the poem about 1381-2 disappears.

Considered among the greatest all-time Orioles, Robinson and the man usually considered the greatest Baltimore Colt football player, Johnny Unitas, had plaques in their honor in the lobby of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium.

Prominent neo-Ricardians are usually held to include Pierangelo Garegnani, Krishna Bharadwaj, Luigi Pasinetti, Joan Robinson, John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Ian Steedman, Heinz Kurz, Neri Salvadori, Bertram Schefold, Fabio Petri, Massimo Pivetti, Franklin Serrano, Fabio Ravagnani, Roberto Ciccone, Sergio Parrinello, Alessandro Roncaglia, Maurice Dobb, Gilbert Abraham-Frois and Giorgio Gilibert.

" Executive producer Ted Robinson has said that the show's humour is usually less genteel than Have I Got News For You as the British series is aimed at an older, over-fifty audience whereas Good News Week is most popular among the 18 to 39 age group.

The grid would usually consists of experienced racers such as former Formula One drivers, Giovanna Amati and Divina Galica, NASCAR's Shawna Robinson, and Italian Audi factory team touring car driver Tamara Vidali against talented amateur drivers from varying degrees of professions, such as radio personality, police officer, law student, and racing simulations art designer for Microsoft.

Leon Preston Robinson IV ( born March 8, 1962 ) usually credited as simply Leon, is an American actor and singer, who began his professional career as an actor in 1983.

Alan Hill wrote that Yorkshire captains ( who were usually poor cricketers ) generally deferred to Rhodes as senior professional ; for example, Arthur Lupton, captain from 1925 to 1927, " very wisely left the cricket affairs to the joint supervision of Rhodes and Emmott Robinson.

While European tasters, such as Oz Clarke and Jancis Robinson, often describe the level of foxiness as " distinctive ", American writers such as Ramey note that Catawba wines usually fall somewhere in the middle between Concord and vinifera when it comes to foxy aromas.

After the game, manager Frank Robinson shed tears during the press conference regarding his removal of Matt in the middle of the seventh inning, which is usually considered embarrassing.

Although the Celtics had the second worst record in the 1996-97 season and the best odds ( 36 percent ) of winning the lottery with two picks, the Spurs, usually a model of winning and consistency, lost David Robinson to an injury early in the season and finished with the third worst record, subsequently winning the lottery.

" The tombs of Shimon bar Yochai, his son R. Eleazar, and those of Hillel and Shammai are located by Robinson as lying within a khan-like courtyard underneath low-domed structures that were usually kept closed with the keys held in Safad.

Robinson is famous for hanging his tongue out of his mouth during competition, usually to the right, a quirk which many find endearing.