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Alexander Selkirk (1676–1721) was a male sailor who held citizenship in the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Born in Lower Largo, he spoke English and was described in the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. His native name is recorded as Alexandre Selcraig.
Selkirk died of yellow fever from natural causes on 13 December 1721 in Cape Coast, where he was also buried. Open Library lists him as the author of one work, a photocopy of his will, while Crossref attributes five works to him.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1676
- Died
- 1721
- Works
- 1
Top works
- (Photocopy of the will of Alexander Selkirk
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,083x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,543x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,601x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,973x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- 1676, Lower Largo , Fife , Scotland
- Died
- 13 December 1721 (aged 45), Cape Coast , Gold Coast
- Occupation
- Sailor
- Known for
- Inspiring Robinson Crusoe
- Parent s
- John Selcraig, Euphan Mackie
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
Selkirk was an unruly youth and joined buccaneering voyages to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession. One such expedition was on Cinque Ports, captained by Thomas Stradling, under the overall command of William Dampier. Stradling's ship stopped to resupply at the uninhabited Juan Fernández Islands, west of South America, and Selkirk judged correctly that the craft was unseaworthy and asked to be left there. Selkirk's suspicions were soon justified, as Cinque Ports foundered near Malpelo Island 400 km (250 mi) from the coast of what is now Colombia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexander Selkirk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.