Castaways

British sailor

HMS Bounty mutineer (1764-1793)

Italian-American middle distance runner and World War II veteran

British Antarctica explorer (1873-1939)

Iñupiat explorer (1898–1983)

British seaman and mutineer, last survivor of the Bounty mutineers (1767–1829)

English-born explorer, farmer, and merchant

British pirate

English interpreter

Korean official (1454-1504)

Native American

English privateer

Chinese sailor of the British Merchant Navy

Fisherman who possibly survived 13 months at sea

American sailor and writer

Newfoundland-American explorer

thumb|Marooned by Howard Pyle Marooning is the intentional act of abandoning someone in an uninhabited area, such as a desert island. The word is attested in 1699, and is derived from the term maroon, a word for a fugitive slave, which could be a corruption of Spanish cimarrón (rendered as "symeron" in 16th–17th century English), meaning a household animal (or slave) who has "run wild". Cimarrón in turn may be derived from the Taino word símaran (“wild”) (like a stray arrow), from símara (“arrow”).

Spanish explorer

Adventurer, castaway, island lover, author (1902–1977)

English writer

, also known as and later known as John Matthew Ottoson (1818 – January 1867), was a Japanese castaway originally from the area of Onoura near modern-day Mihama, on the west coast of the Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture.

thumb|Taqulittuq in the United States Taqulittuq (, often transliterated as Tookoolito;  – December 31, 1876) was an Inuk interpreter and guide. She and her husband Ipirvik (also known as Joe) worked alongside Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall and joined him in his search for Franklin's lost expedition in the 1860s, as well as the Polaris expedition to reach the North Pole.

Japanese castaway who spent eleven years in Russia

Danish explorer (1832–1889)

thumb|U.S. merchant seamen try to revive a shipwrecked Filipino fisherman rescued in the South China Sea (1983) thumb|Castaways may need to survive on a desert island. 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).

HMS Bounty mutineer

Dutch castaway

British sailor, mutineer from the HMS Bounty

Dembei (; ; Dembei, ; ) was a Japanese castaway who, through Vladimir Atlasov, provided Russia with some of its first knowledge of Japan.

Unidentified amputee found at Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia, 1863

16th/17th-century English admiral

Spanish sailor

six boys who became shipwrecked on the deserted remote island of ʻAta

British couple who, in 1973, survived for 118 days on a rubber raft in the Pacific Ocean

Governor of Jamestown, in the English colony of Virginia

French castaway marooned in the Isles de la Demoiselle

Japanese sailor

British writer (1924–1992)

English adventurer to Virginia and Plymouth colonies (d. 1644)

Soviet barge

Portuguese castaway

thumb|Ipirvik at the Smithsonian, Ipirvik (, often transliterated as Ebierbing; –) was an Inuk guide and explorer who assisted several Arctic explorers, among them Charles Francis Hall and Frederick Schwatka. He and his wife Taqulittuq were the best-known and most widely-travelled Inuit in the 1860s and 1870s.