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Castaway

A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore. While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a desert island, either to evade captors or the world in general. A person may also be left ashore as punishment (marooned).

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Castaway

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Avg. degree1.99
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related to Other castaways · 103
Castaway → Aboriginal, Aboriginal Australians, Ada Blackjack, After, Aleksei Inkov, Alfred Bester, American, Antarctic Peninsula, August, Australia, Australia16, Barney Island, Blue DolphinsNakahama Manjirō, British, California, Campbell Island, Cape York Peninsula, Caribbean, Chinese, Coast Guard
related to Pre-20th century · 43
Castaway → Alexander Selkirk, Barbara Crawford, Ben Gunn, Captain Grant, Castaways, Daniel Defoe, EnglishLemuel Gulliver, Godfrey Morgan, Greek, Gulliver's Travels, Hayy, Homer, Ibn, Ibn Tufail, In Search, Johann David Wyss, Jonathan Swift, Jules Verne, Middle Eastern, Nafis
related to Jan Pelgrom de Bye and Wouter Loos · 31
Castaway → Abel Tasman, Aboriginal, Amangu, And Their Ghosts May, Australia, Australian, Batavia, Batavia Mutiny, Be Heard, Bemel, Bye, Dutch, Europeans, Houtman Abrolhos, However, Hutt River, In, It, Jakarta, Jan Pelgrom
related to Literature · 25
Castaway → Andy Weir, Baby Island, Blue Dolphins, Canadian, Carol Ryrie Brink, Flies, Hatchet, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Island, Kensuke's Kingdom, Lord, Mars, Michael Morpurgo, Scott O'Dell, Series, South Seas, Stephen King, Survivor Type, The Blue Lagoon, The End
related to Games · 21
Castaway → Blue, Grade Adventures, Island, Johnny Castaway, Let's Go Jungle, Living Volcano, Lost, Mysterious Island, PC, Pikmin, Return, Shipwrecked, Spice, Stranded, Stranded Deep, The ClueFinders, The Learning CompanySurvival Kids, The Secret, The Sims, The Sims Castaway Stories
related to Gonzalo de Vigo · 17
Castaway → August, Chamorros, Espinosa's Trinidad, European, Ferdinand Magellan, Galician, Gonzalo, Gonzalo Gómez, Guam, He, Loaísa Expedition, Marianas, Maug Islands, Pacific Ocean, Spanish, Spice Islands, Vigo
related to Alexander Selkirk · 16
Castaway → Alexander Selkirk, Being, Bible, Cinque Ports, Daniel Defoe, February, He, His, Más, October, Robinson Crusoe, Selkirk, The, The Juan Fernández Islands, Tierra, William Dampier
related to Leendert Hasenbosch · 15
Castaway → Ascension Island, Before, Britain, British, Dutch, Dutch Castaway, English, Hasenbosch, He, In, January, Leendert Hasenbosch, May, Michiel Koolbergen, The
related to Philip Ashton · 15
Castaway → Ashton, Bay Islands, Diamond, Englishman, He, Honduras, June, Marblehead, March, Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, Philip Ashton, Roatán, Salem, The Englishman
related to External links · 8
Castaway → Accessed, Adams, Are, Cecil, December, Lost, Not, The Straight Dope

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Castawayis aperson who is cast adrift or ashore0.90text
the Nhandainstance ofIt has been argued by Rupert Gerritsen in And Their Ghosts May Be Heard and subsequent publications that they survived and had a profound influence on local Aboriginal groups0.80text
Amangu.68 passengersinstance ofIt has been argued by Rupert Gerritsen in And Their Ghosts May Be Heard and subsequent publications that they survived and had a profound influence on local Aboriginal groups0.80text
crew from Vergulde DraeckIn the early hours of 28 April 1656 a Dutch vessel belonging to the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnieinstance ofIt has been argued by Rupert Gerritsen in And Their Ghosts May Be Heard and subsequent publications that they survived and had a profound influence on local Aboriginal groups0.80text
Amanguinstance ofIt has been argued by Rupert Gerritsen in And Their Ghosts May Be Heard and subsequent publications that they survived and had a profound influence on local Aboriginal groups0.80text
Castaway.The Blue Lagooninstance ofThere are also memoirs0.80text
a 1908 romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole about two children stranded on a tropical island after a shipwreckinstance ofThere are also memoirs0.80text
with multiple film adaptations.Baby Islandinstance ofThere are also memoirs0.80text
a 1937 novel by Carol Ryrie Brink about two preteen sisters caring for four babies on a South Seas island.Survivor Typeinstance ofThere are also memoirs0.80text
a 1982 short story by Stephen King about a shipwrecked surgeon who ends up eating parts of his own body to survive.Lord of the Fliesinstance ofThere are also memoirs0.80text
a novel by William Goldinginstance ofThere are also memoirs0.80text
and several movie versions.Hatchetinstance ofThere are also memoirs0.80text

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