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	Juan Fernández - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The islands are volcanic in origin, and were created by a hot spot in the earth's mantle that broke through the Nazca Plate to form the islands, which were then carried eastward off the hot spot as the Nazca Plate subducts under the South American continent.
		The islands have a subtropical climate, influenced by the cold Humboldt Current which flows northward along the South American coast east of the islands, and the southeast trade winds.
		The Juan Fernández islands are home to a high percentage of rare and endemic plants and animals, and are recognized as a distinct ecoregion.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Juan_Fernandez (918 words)

	JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS - LoveToKnow Article on JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There are few trees on the island, for most of the valuably indigenous trees have been practically exterminated, such as thy sandalwood, which the earlier navigators found one of the most valuable products of the island.
		Fernandez obtained from the Spanish government a grant of the islands, where he resided for some time, stocking them with goats and pigs.
		In February 1700 Dampier called at Juan Fernandez and while there Captain Straddling of the Cinque Porte galley quarrelled with his men, forty-two of whom deserted but were afterwards taken on board by Dampier; five seamen, however, remained on shore.
	72.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JU/JUAN_FERNANDEZ_ISLANDS.htm (971 words)

	Juan Fernández - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Probably between 1563 and 1574 he discovered the Juan Fernández Islands west of Valparaíso.
		He also discovered the Pacific islands of San Félix and San Ambrosio (1574).
		This article about an explorer is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Juan_Fernandez (61 words)

	Juan Fernandez Fur Seal - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Juan Fernandez Fur Seal (Arctocephalus philippii) is a fur seal that breeds on the Juan Fernandez Islands off the coast of Chile.
		Having been discovered by navigator Juan Fernandez in the sixteenth century, the seals became a target for sealers in the seventeenth.
		Slow recovery of the Juan Fernandez fur seal population
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /juan_fernandez_fur_seal.htm (120 words)

	Juan Fernández Islands - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Juan Fernández Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The islands include Robinson Crusoe (the largest, formerly Más a Tierra; 93 sq km/36 sq mi, 22 km/14 mi long and 7.3 km/4,4 mi wide), Alejandro Selkirk (formerly Más a Fuera), and Santa Clara (the smallest and also known as Goat Island).
		Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was marooned on Robinson Crusoe Island in 1704 and rescued by William Dampier in 1709; his experiences as a castaway were the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
		There are 11 endemic bird species and one native mammal – the Juan Fernandez fur seal.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Juan%20Fern%E1ndez%20Islands (234 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests (NT0401)
		The Juan Fernández archipelago is located 667 km off the coast of continental Chile in the south-eastern part of the Pacific Ocean and is of the few regions of the world where there was no permanent human settlements before 16th century (Wester 1991).
		The Juan Fernandez islands were distinguished from other ecoregions by the great distance of the islands from the mainland and from other islands, and by the number of endemic species present, including 3 species of bird (Stattersfield et al.
		Endemism in the vascular flora of the Juan Fernandez Islands.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0401_full.html (2696 words)

	Juan Fernandez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Juan Fernandez is actually an Archipelago located some 600 kilometers from the Chilean mainland in the Pacific Ocean.
		The main island sometimes referred to as Juan Fernadez was called Mas a Tierra but has now been renamed (in 1966, by the Chilean government) Robinson Crusoe Island.
		An account of Juan Fernandez was given by Basil Ringrose in his journal published in Oliver Esquemeling's 'Buccaneers of America' published in 1685.
	www.islomania.com /JuanFernandez/index.html (205 words)

	Chile Juan Fernandez Islands. Robinson Crusoe Island
		The island is situated 667 km from the continent, in front of the city of Valparaíso.
		The island was discovered in 1574 by the shipwrecked Alejandro Selkirk who was motivated by the writer Daniel Defoe to immortalize the island in one of the literature classics that was named after him.
		The island has instructional services and all equipment needed for diving, we invite you to submerge yourself in the warm, transparent waters of the island, offering you the opportunity to see the rich underwater flora and fauna.
	www.gochile.cl /html/ChileJuanFernandez/JuanFernandez.asp (1291 words)

	juan fernandez islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Juan Fernandez archipelago is located 670 km off the coast of Chile, and is composed of the volcanic islands Robinson Crusoe and Alejandro Selkirk, and the islet Santa Clara.
		The archipelago was discovered by the Spanish sailor Juan Fernández, probably between 1563 and 1574.
		On the Desventuradas Islands only 2 were sighted.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Juan_Fernandez_Islands.html (258 words)

	Noonsite: Juan Fernandez Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The three islands, Robinson Crusoe, Alejandro Selkirk and Santa Clara, are a dependency of Chile.
		Discovered by Juan Fernández in 1574, one island was the home of Alexander Selkirk, a seaman who was left on the island at his own request from 1704 to 1709.
		The names were given to the islands in 1935 when the group was made a national park.
	www.noonsite.com /Countries/JuanFernandezIslands (230 words)

	juan fernandez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Juan Fernández archipelago is located 670 km off the coast of Chile, and is composed of the volcanic islands Robinson Crusoe and Alejandro Selkirk, and the islet Santa Clara.
		There are 209 native species of vascular plants in the Juan Fernandez Islands, of which 126 are endemic.
		The Juan Fernández fur seal (Arctocephalus philippii) lives on the islands.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /juan_fernandez.html (413 words)

	Historia de las Islas
		For a sailor like Juan Fernández coming from the loneliness of an unending sea, his first encounter with this island might have been like he was in an incredible fantasy, like a miracle from God.
		The islands were neglected by the Spanish Crown and they were used by used by pirates and bucaneers as a major stronghold in their attacks to Chile and Perú.
		A long history of sailors, explorers, and pirates often stopped at island Más a Tierra throughout the XVII century, but undoubtly the most famous was the visit of the "Cinque Ports".
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Island/1698/english/Historia.html (832 words)

	Juan Fernandez islands - Chile - images / imágenes - 1 - Robinson Crusoe island: Land and Sea - Travel-Images.com
		Juan Fernandez islands - Chile - images / imágenes - 1 - Robinson Crusoe island: Land and Sea - Travel-Images.com
		Robinson Crusoe island: Puerto Inglés from the ocean
		Robinson Crusoe island: forest - juania australis chonta
	www.travel-images.com /juan-fernandez.html (199 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests (NT0401) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Each of the Juan Fernández Islands formed as volcanic material erupted from the ocean floor and built up over thousands of years, with Mas a Tierra breaking the ocean surface first--some four million years ago.
		There are no native mammals, amphibians, or reptiles on the islands, though species of each, including the islands’ only frog, have been introduced since humans began to occupy the region.
		Juan Fernández petrels and Stejnegers petrels nest in rookeries tucked into the craggy outcroppings of this island chain.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0401.html (581 words)

	Cambridge plant evolution and palaeoecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The climate of the Juan Fernandez Islands is strongly influenced by fluctuations in the general northward flow of the cold subantarctic Humbolt ocean current and the south east trade winds (anticyclonic atmospheric circulation system), that creates a high-winter and low-summer rainfall pattern and a stable temperature environment.
		Occasionally the oceanic and atmospheric currents are disrupted bringing anomalous climatic conditions to the islands, such as occurred in 1973 when warm ocean waters contributed to a prolonged wet season.
		The climate of the Juan Fernandez Islands does not show a clear relationship to the major ENSO events, at least in terms of precipitation and temperature.
	www.kv.geo.uu.se /JFernandez/climate.html (193 words)

	The Best Pelagic Birding in the World - Coastal Chile, Peru and the Humbolt Current
		The main penguin rookery in Peru is on the guano island of Punta San Juan, and is thus extremely vulnerable to commerical guano mining.
		The Juan Fernandez Islands lie at a latitude slightly south of Valparaiso and are some 600-700 km offshore.
		Juan Fernandez Petrel, apparantly a pan-tropical species, breeds on the highest points of Mas Afuera (1650 m), while a few De Filippi's Petrel (also known as Mas a Tierra Petrels) breed at lower altitude on Mas a Tierra closer to the cool waters of the Humbolt Current.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /Chile.html (648 words)

	Juan Fernandez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Juan Fernandez archipelago is located 670 km off thecoast of Chile, and is composed of the volcanic islands Robinson Crusoeand Alejandro Selkirk, and the islet Santa Clara.
		There are 209native species of vascular plants in the Juan Fernandez Islands, ofwhich 126 are endemic.
		Robinson Crusoe Island is home to an endemic and endangered hummingbird, the Juan Fernandez Firecrown (Sephanoidesfernandensis).
	www.therfcc.org /juan-fernandez-73042.html (352 words)

	Comeback on a Castaway's Island -- International Wildlife Magazine -- National Wildlife Federation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The volcanic Juan Fernandez Islands—two main islands and a spattering of islets near the western edge of the Humboldt Current, which sweeps cold and food-rich water north along the west coast of South America—were discovered in 1563 by the Spanish navigator Juan Fernandez.
		One of the oldest residents on Robinson Crusoe Island (the island now has a human population of 600) is Reynold M. Green Rojas, a man in his eighties.
		Robinson Crusoe Island is small (36 square miles) and split by a central mountain chain into dramatically disparate halves: The north shore gets a lot of rain and is covered with dense rain forest; the south coast is storm-lashed and desert-dry.
	www.nwf.org /internationalwildlife/2001/seal.html (2067 words)

	SCS: Juan Fernández Fur Seal (Arctocephalus philippii)
		Considered to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1965, the Juan Fernández fur seal occupies isolated rocks and islets on the Juan Fernández and San Félix / San Ambrosio island groups off the Chilean coast.
		However the species was very heavily exploited for its pelt, blubber, meat and oil by commercial sealers from the 17th to 19th centuries and by the beginning of the 20th century it was believed to be extinct.
		The Juan Fernández fur seal has a fairly narrow range of prey species, probably due more to availability rather than specialisation, their main prey being myctophid and squid.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/juanfur.htm (667 words)

	Allozyme diversity in endemic flowering plant species of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile: ecological and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Francisco-Ortega J. Crawford A. Santos-Guerra J. Corvalho 1996 Isozyme differentiation in the endemic Argyranthemum (Asteraceae: Anthemideae) in the Macaronesian Islands.
		Kim S.-C. Crawford J. Francisco-Ortega A. Santos-Guerra 1999 Adaptive radiation and genetic differentiation in the woody Sonchus alliance (Asteraceae: Sonchinae) in the Canary Islands.
		Skottsberg C. 1922 The phanerogams of the Juan Fernandez Islands.
	www.amjbot.org /cgi/content/full/88/12/2195 (6066 words)

	Juan Fernandez de Navarrete -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1568 he was appointed painter to the king, who chose him (1576) to play a major role in the decoration of El Escorial monastery, near Madrid; of the 32 altarpieces commissioned for the monastery, only eight were completed at the time of his death.
		The Spanish writer Juan de Valdés was a member of an influential, well-educated family that played significant roles in the religious, political, and literary life of Spain and its empire.
		Juan de Borbón was pretender to the Spanish throne from the death of his father, King Alfonso XIII, in 1941 until 1977, when he formally renounced his claim in favor of his son, King Juan Carlos I. More articles >
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034074?tocId=9034074 (682 words)

	Cambridge plant evolution and palaeoecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The flora and fauna of the Juan Fernandez Islands (33o 50'S 80o 00'W) have developed in isolation, some 700 km west of Santiago in Chile, on three small islands of volcanic origin (Go to map).
		The most ancient of these islands, Robinson Crusoe Island (Figure 1A), is some 4 million years old and harbours plant communities with up to 70% species endemism, including survivors of many ancient plant groups that were once much more widespread in the southern hemisphere (eg.
		The first human occupation of the islands was in 1574 when the spanish explorer Juan Fernandez discovered the islands.
	www.kv.geo.uu.se /JFernandez/JFernandez.html (1033 words)

	San Juan Islands -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The islands are near the Canadian border, south of the Strait of Georgia and east of Juan de Fuca Strait.
		The oldest city under the United States flag, it occupies part of a small island separated from the remainder of Puerto Rico by San Juan Bay and Condado Lagoon to the south.
		Nine islands and about 50 islets and reefs are scattered over an area of about 200 miles (320 kilometers) in diameter.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9065339 (887 words)

	Juan Fernández on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The two principal islands are Isla Robinson Crusoe (formerly Más a Tierra) and Isla Alejandro Selkirk (formerly Más Afuera).
		Discovered by a Spanish navigator in 1563, the islands achieved fame with the publication of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), generally acknowledged to have been inspired by the confinement on Más a Tierra (1704-9) of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor.
		Jose Rafael Fernandez Named President and CEO of Oriental Financial Group; Jose Enrique Fernandez Continues as Chairman of the Board.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/JuanF1ern.asp (538 words)

	Chile Tours : Easter Island and Juan Fernandez
		With a warm and pleasant climate year-round, Easter Island is famous around the world for its Moais, ancient ceremonial sculptures of stone with human forms, vestiges of a culture whose mysteries still remain unsolved.
		Adding to these are the natural spots of the island, green meadows, majestic volcanoes, and nearby, the majority of the ceremonial centers and archaeological vestiges of the island, protected by the Rapa Nui National Park.
		On the other hand, located further south and closer to the continent is the Archipelago of Juan Fernandez, known for its mysterious Robinson Crusoe island, which has an ecosystem unique to the planet with its own particular type of flower.
	www.gochile.cl /eng/tour/Chile-Rapa-Nui.asp (323 words)

	Adventure in Chile
		Chile's largest island is endowed with a long coastline, thick forests, an excellent water supply, and numerous small farms.
		The sole indigenous mammal is the Juan Fernandez fur seal, rescued from the brink of extinction in the last century.
		Though the islands and some of their animals are named after Fernandez, the most legendary figure associated with them is Alexander Selkirk, the unfortunate and resourceful Scottish castaway who inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
	www.interknowledge.com /chile/chile02.htm (1546 words)

	Chile Tours Robinson Crusoe Island, San Juan Bautista, Juan Fernandez
		• Robinson Crusoe Island: The Juan Fernandez Archipelago
		The town of San Juan Bautista possesses a rich history and on this day we will visit el Fuerte, Santa Barbara, the monument that defended national sovereignty in the 18th century.
		The island only has a first-aid post so the trip is not recommended for people with delicate health or those who are sick, or suffering from a serious health ailment.
	www.gochile.cl /Tour/ToursDet.asp?TOID=356 (631 words)

	Juan Fernandez islands - Chile - images / imágenes - 3 - Robinson Crusoe island: Fauna - Travel-Images.com
		Robinson Crusoe island: sephanoides fernandensis -Juan Fernandez Firecrown - Picaflor rojo de Juan Fernandez
		Robinson Crusoe island: Juan Fernandez falcon - Falco sparverius fernandensis - cernicalo
		Robinson Crusoe island: a Juan Fernandez fur seal - close-up - arctocephalus philippi
	www.travel-images.com /juan-fernandez3.html (180 words)

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