Otokichi

Otokichi

male, deceased (1867)
was a Japanese castaway originally from the area of Onoura near Mihama, on the west coast of the Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture.
Alexander Selkirk

Alexander Selkirk

male, deceased (1721)
Alexander Selkirk, born Alexander Selcraig, (1676-13 December 1721) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway on an uninhabited...
Philip Ashton

Philip Ashton

male, 307 years old
Philip Ashton (1702-?) stayed as a castaway on uninhabited Roatan Island in the Bay of Honduras for 16 months in 1723/1724. His memoirs about his...
Charles Barnard

Charles Barnard

male, deceased (1840)
Captain Charles Barnard (1781-c.1840) was a famous castaway. In 1812 the British ship "Isabella", captained by George Higton, is shipwrecked off...

William Strachey

male, deceased (1621)
William Strachey (c. 1572- c. 1621) was an English writer and barrister, whose writings are among the primary sources for the history the English...
Ada Blackjack

Ada Blackjack

female, deceased (1983)
Ada Blackjack, (1898-1983) was an Inuit woman who lived for two years as a castaway on uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia.
Gareth Rees

Gareth Rees

male, 42 years old
Gareth Rees (born on 30 June 1967) is a former Canadian international rugby union footballer who played fly-half or full back. He is probably the...
Leendert Hasenbosch

Leendert Hasenbosch

male, deceased (1725)
Leendert Hasenbosch was a Dutchman, an employee of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) who was set ashore as a castaway on uninhabited Ascension...

Fernão Lopez

male, deceased (1545)
Fernão Lopez was the first known permanent inhabitant of the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, an island that later b...
Nakahama Manjirō

Nakahama Manjirō

male, deceased (1898)
Nakahama Manjirō, also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to visit the United States and an important translator during t...