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JUAN FERNANDEZ: ERSTWHILE RESORT OF A FAMOUS PRIVATEER
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The main island of a small group in the South Pacific, included in the
province of Valparaiso, Juan Fernandez was for some years the solitary
residence of Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish sailor and supposed original
of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, whose privateering exploits are
world-famous. Its mountainous and rocky shores are frequently visited
by Chilean fishermen
Photo, Heffer, Santiago
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EASTER ISLAND: THE PUZZLE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
| Scattered fragments of bygone culture and art, traceable to a Melanesian source, are found in profusion about this lonely islet, belonging to Chile and known as Rapanui, or Easter Island, since its discovery by the Dutch admiral, Roggeveen, on Easter Day, 1722. Huge monolithic statues, rock carvings and stone faces are relics which present an ethnological problem still unsolved |