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5/25/24 - Virgil Robinson, Otis Coen, Cory Culberhouse, GT Albright, and Glenn Blanchard @ North Forty Beer Company, Roseburg, Oregon, USA
Robinson Crusoe Island (Spanish: Isla Robinson Crusoe), formerly known as Más a Tierra (Closer to Land), is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated 670 km west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is the most populous of the inhabited islands in the archipelago (the other being Alejandro Selkirk Island), with most of that in the town of San Juan Bautista at Cumberland Bay on the island's north coast.
The island was home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk from 1704 to 1709, and is thought to have inspired novelist Daniel Defoe's fictional Robinson Crusoe in his 1719 novel about the character. To reflect the literary lore associated with the island and to lure tourists, the Chilean government renamed the location Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966
The island was first named Juan Fernandez Island after Juan Fernández, a Spanish sea captain and explorer who was the first to land there in 1574. It was also known as Más a Tierra. There is no evidence of an earlier discovery either by Polynesians, despite the proximity to Easter Island, or by Native Americans.
In 1704 the sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned as a castaway on the island, where he lived in solitude for four years and four months. Selkirk had been gravely concerned about the seaworthiness of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and declared his wish to be left on the island during a mid-voyage restocking stop. His captain, Thomas Stradling, a colleague on the voyage of privateer and explorer William Dampier, was tired of his dissent and obliged. All Selkirk had left with him was a musket, gunpowder, carpenter's tools, a knife, a Bible, and some clothing.
In an 1840 narrative, Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. described the port of Juan Fernandez as a young prison colony. The penal institution was soon abandoned and the island again uninhabited before a permanent colony was eventually established in the latter part of the 19th century. Joshua Slocum visited the island between 26 April and 5 May 1896, during his solo global circumnavigation on the sloop Spray. The island and its 45 inhabitants are referred to in detail in Slocum's memoir, Sailing Alone Around the World.
On 27 February 2010 Robinson Crusoe Island was hit by a tsunami following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake. The tsunami was about 3 m (10 ft) high when it reached the island. Sixteen people lost their lives, and most of the coastal village of San Juan Batista was washed away. The only warning the islanders had come from a 12-year-old girl, who noticed the sudden drawback of the sea that presages the arrival of a tsunami wave and saved many of her neighbors from harm.
Robinson Crusoe had an estimated population of 843 in 2012. Most of the island's inhabitants live in the village of San Juan Bautista on the north coast at Cumberland Bay. Although the community maintains a rustic serenity dependent on the spiny lobster trade, residents employ a few vehicles, a satellite Internet connection and televisions.
The main airstrip on the island is near the tip of the island's southwestern peninsula. The flight from Santiago de Chile is just under three hours. A ferry runs from the airstrip to San Juan Bautista.
Tourists number in the hundreds per year.
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Some of the photos going on here just now are ones that normally wouldn’t make the grade for Flickr but because I’m not out and about these photos are appearing now
5/25/24 - Virgil Robinson, Otis Coen, Cory Culberhouse, GT Albright, and Glenn Blanchard @ North Forty Beer Company, Roseburg, Oregon, USA
Jackie Robinson being greeted by George Shuba at home plate depicted in the "A Handshake for the Century" sculpture in Youngstown, Ohio.
Just over 200 coaches turned up for the FA Cup semi-final between Coventry City and Manchester United on Sunday 21st April 2024. Among the arrivals were 27 deckers, 20 Ridleys, 10 Catteralls and 10 24-registration coaches. A great day had by all!!
The summit cairn on Robinson looking towards Great Gable and Pillar. The top of this mountain, although offering amazing views, is quite featureless in itself - so I ventured west of the summit to Robinson Crags for the shot pictured below:
The Robinson Bridge a footbridge set beside The National Athletics Centre in Budapest. It is suspended from a 65-foot-tall slender pylon and is illuminated at night, seen here from the river Danube.
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Robinson Falls in Fayette County, PA located outside of Connellsville and is part of Opossum Run.
Robinson Falls, aka Corkscrew Falls, after the prolonged cold snap covering much of the country. Robinson Falls is accessible by permit only through Ohio State Preserves. It's located in the Boch Hollow Preserve north of Hocking Hills State Park.
verona jazz festival june 1994
reginald robinson - ragtime interpreter -.....piano solo
rehearsal time...
best... reginald robinson on black
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Robinson Preserve lies outside of Bradenton, FL, south of greater Tampa Bay and near the mouth of the Manatee River. It's a wonderful place to walk, with a good mix of open waters, restored salt marsh, and tranquil beach scenes. With pathways fit for all ages, bicycles, and furry friends, its a popular place.
Seen at the Llandudno Transport Festival Robinsons F11RHL a Volvo FH16 Globetrotter. Photo taken 29/04/17
Actually Alexander Selkirk, but the village signs even call it Robinson Crusoe
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Robinson Crusoe Island (Spanish: Isla Robinson Crusoe), formerly known as Más a Tierra (Closer to Land), is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated 670 km west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is the most populous of the inhabited islands in the archipelago (the other being Alejandro Selkirk Island), with most of that in the town of San Juan Bautista at Cumberland Bay on the island's north coast.
The island was home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk from 1704 to 1709, and is thought to have inspired novelist Daniel Defoe's fictional Robinson Crusoe in his 1719 novel about the character. To reflect the literary lore associated with the island and to lure tourists, the Chilean government renamed the location Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966
The island was first named Juan Fernandez Island after Juan Fernández, a Spanish sea captain and explorer who was the first to land there in 1574. It was also known as Más a Tierra. There is no evidence of an earlier discovery either by Polynesians, despite the proximity to Easter Island, or by Native Americans.
In 1704 the sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned as a castaway on the island, where he lived in solitude for four years and four months. Selkirk had been gravely concerned about the seaworthiness of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and declared his wish to be left on the island during a mid-voyage restocking stop. His captain, Thomas Stradling, a colleague on the voyage of privateer and explorer William Dampier, was tired of his dissent and obliged. All Selkirk had left with him was a musket, gunpowder, carpenter's tools, a knife, a Bible, and some clothing.
In an 1840 narrative, Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. described the port of Juan Fernandez as a young prison colony. The penal institution was soon abandoned and the island again uninhabited before a permanent colony was eventually established in the latter part of the 19th century. Joshua Slocum visited the island between 26 April and 5 May 1896, during his solo global circumnavigation on the sloop Spray. The island and its 45 inhabitants are referred to in detail in Slocum's memoir, Sailing Alone Around the World.
On 27 February 2010 Robinson Crusoe Island was hit by a tsunami following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake. The tsunami was about 3 m (10 ft) high when it reached the island. Sixteen people lost their lives, and most of the coastal village of San Juan Batista was washed away. The only warning the islanders had come from a 12-year-old girl, who noticed the sudden drawback of the sea that presages the arrival of a tsunami wave and saved many of her neighbors from harm.
Robinson Crusoe had an estimated population of 843 in 2012. Most of the island's inhabitants live in the village of San Juan Bautista on the north coast at Cumberland Bay. Although the community maintains a rustic serenity dependent on the spiny lobster trade, residents employ a few vehicles, a satellite Internet connection and televisions.
The main airstrip on the island is near the tip of the island's southwestern peninsula. The flight from Santiago de Chile is just under three hours. A ferry runs from the airstrip to San Juan Bautista.
Tourists number in the hundreds per year.
This is one of Robinson's 04 class locomotives (it's impossible to identify it any better than that, at least by me).
Wikipedia tells me that the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class O4 initially consisted of the 131 ex-Great Central Railway (GCR) Class 8K 2-8-0 steam locomotives acquired on grouping in 1923. The engines were designed by John G. Robinson and built at the GCR locomotive works at Gorton, Manchester. After grouping, a further tranche were built, and eventually, including sub-classes, there were some 329 examples that passed into British Railways ownership in 1948. It is interesting to note that 92 O4 locomotives were requisitioned by the War Department during World War II and shipped during late 1941 for operation in the Middle East.
Withdrawal started in 1959, but the last survived in service until April 1966. This very dirty and rusty looking example is seen heading past Gainsborough Trent Junctions Signal Box towards the town circa 1962. The photographer must have been stood about on the site of the current (not built at the time) signal box. The old box - still in operation in 1962 - can be seen on the extreme left of this photograph - it was on the "down" side of the tracks, the current box is on the "up".
Original 35mm slide on loan to me. Owner retains Copyright.
The White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) railway was completed from Skagway to Whitehorse in 1900. A parallel track, or siding, was built in the rail line here to allow trains to pass one another. Robinson siding was a designated “flag station” where the train stopped on an as-need or request basis. During the 1906 Wheaton gold rush a railway box car was parked at Robinson to accommodate waiting passengers.
Robinson remained a flag station until the railway shut down in 1983.
Robinson Crusoe Island (Spanish: Isla Robinson Crusoe), formerly known as Más a Tierra (Closer to Land), is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated 670 km west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is the most populous of the inhabited islands in the archipelago (the other being Alejandro Selkirk Island), with most of that in the town of San Juan Bautista at Cumberland Bay on the island's north coast.
The island was home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk from 1704 to 1709, and is thought to have inspired novelist Daniel Defoe's fictional Robinson Crusoe in his 1719 novel about the character. To reflect the literary lore associated with the island and to lure tourists, the Chilean government renamed the location Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966
The island was first named Juan Fernandez Island after Juan Fernández, a Spanish sea captain and explorer who was the first to land there in 1574. It was also known as Más a Tierra. There is no evidence of an earlier discovery either by Polynesians, despite the proximity to Easter Island, or by Native Americans.
In 1704 the sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned as a castaway on the island, where he lived in solitude for four years and four months. Selkirk had been gravely concerned about the seaworthiness of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and declared his wish to be left on the island during a mid-voyage restocking stop. His captain, Thomas Stradling, a colleague on the voyage of privateer and explorer William Dampier, was tired of his dissent and obliged. All Selkirk had left with him was a musket, gunpowder, carpenter's tools, a knife, a Bible, and some clothing.
In an 1840 narrative, Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. described the port of Juan Fernandez as a young prison colony. The penal institution was soon abandoned and the island again uninhabited before a permanent colony was eventually established in the latter part of the 19th century. Joshua Slocum visited the island between 26 April and 5 May 1896, during his solo global circumnavigation on the sloop Spray. The island and its 45 inhabitants are referred to in detail in Slocum's memoir, Sailing Alone Around the World.
On 27 February 2010 Robinson Crusoe Island was hit by a tsunami following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake. The tsunami was about 3 m (10 ft) high when it reached the island. Sixteen people lost their lives, and most of the coastal village of San Juan Batista was washed away. The only warning the islanders had come from a 12-year-old girl, who noticed the sudden drawback of the sea that presages the arrival of a tsunami wave and saved many of her neighbors from harm.
Robinson Crusoe had an estimated population of 843 in 2012. Most of the island's inhabitants live in the village of San Juan Bautista on the north coast at Cumberland Bay. Although the community maintains a rustic serenity dependent on the spiny lobster trade, residents employ a few vehicles, a satellite Internet connection and televisions.
The main airstrip on the island is near the tip of the island's southwestern peninsula. The flight from Santiago de Chile is just under three hours. A ferry runs from the airstrip to San Juan Bautista.
Tourists number in the hundreds per year.
JW Robinson's opened its first branch downtown in the long ago to compete with its rival stores but took a different approach: it offered somewhat higher-priced and harder-to-find merchandise than its fellows. The store opened fewer branches than, say, the May Company or The Broadway and set its sights on more affluent areas--such as Pasadena and Beverly Hills.
This stately store opened in January 1952. Built on the former site of a nursery, it seemed oddly distant from the center of Beverly Hills and somewhat out of place at "the point," the v-intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards--especially in the three years before Hilton built its mid-century-modern hotel on the adjoining property. Robinson's Beverly enjoyed a clientele that included people with famous faces, some that enjoyed attention and others who would keep a very low profile. Those who visited will remember how quiet the store's floors were--almost reverant and hushed. In 1993 Robinson's was merged with the May Company into something called "Robinsons-May," and finally by 2006 the chain was dissolved and the stores closed. This property was made available to whomever might make the most attractive bid. After a lot of proposals and a lot of debate, no project could navigate the development process, but finally in the spring of 2014 a plan for a "boutique" hotel, and residences that would also rise on both sides of the adjoining Beverly Hilton hotel got the green light. In June 2014 demolition began on the William Pereira / Charles Luckman building. I joined a number of friends with tears over the destruction of this austere building, and can only hope that what replaces it can keep within the scale of the intersection and its surroundings.