Old travel Blog photograph of houses by the beach in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish coastal village has gained fame as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk, born 1676, died 13 December 1721, was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent more than four years as a castaway, from 1704 to 1709, after being marooned by his captain on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. He survived that ordeal, but succumbed to tropical illness a dozen years later while serving aboard HMS Weymouth off West Africa.
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