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Island of the Blue Dolphins is a 1960 children's novel by American writer Scott O'Dell, which tells the story of a girl named Karana, who is stranded alone for years on an island off the California coast. It is based on the true story of Juana Maria, a Nicoleño Native American left alone for 18 years on San Nicolas Island during the nineteenth ...
ʻAta island. The Tongan castaways were a group of six Tongan teenage boys who shipwrecked on the uninhabited island of ʻAta in 1965 and lived there for 15 months until their rescue. The boys ran away from their boarding school on the island of Tongatapu, stealing a boat in their escape. After a storm wrecked the boat, they drifted to the ...
Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding.The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves.
After their boat sinks in an unusual storm, a family become stranded on an island in the "27th dimension". 1996 Television film Forbidden Island: Nikita Ager, Paul Kersey, Grayson McCouch: Survivors of a plane crash are stranded on a mysterious tropical island which possesses supernatural powers. 1999 Survivor/Expedition Robinson: Various N/A
The book follows a group of boys who find themselves stranded on an island after their plane crashes. With no adult survivors, the boys must fend for themselves — and the desire to survive leads ...
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy.Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on a desert island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home.
Robinson Crusoe [a] (/ ˈ k r uː s oʊ / KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.Written with a combination of epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms, the book follows the title character (born Robinson Kreutznaer) after he is cast away and spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad ...
A man who was stranded for three days on Cay Sal, a small and uninhabited Bahamas island, was rescued on Friday. The U.S. Coast Guard spotted a “disabled sailboat firing flares near Cay Sal ...