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Jan 1 • 08:31 UTC • 🇭🇷 Croatia • Index.hr

He lived alone on an island for four years and inspired a very famous world novel

Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor and explorer, famously inspired Daniel Defoe's novel 'Robinson Crusoe' through his four-year solitary stay on a remote island in the South Pacific.

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