Islands in Time

"I took out one of the fowling-pieces, and one of the pistols, and a horn of powder; and thus armed, I travelled for discovery up to the top of that hill, where, after I had with great labour and difficulty got to the top, I saw my fate, to my great affliction—viz. that I was in an island environed every way with the sea: no land to be seen except some rocks, which lay a great way off; and two small islands, less than this, which lay about three leagues to the west."

~ The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

So Robinson Crusoe first learns where he is, and where, mercifully unbeknownst to him at this point, he is to remain for the next 28 years. His story is loosely based on the real-life adventures of one Alexander Selkirk, a castaway who lived on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands for almost four and a half years. Now, two of the islands are named after these men, one real, one fictional (story and video): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19562787