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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).
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- Real occurrences
- Thorgisl
- Grettir Ásmundarson
- Fernão Lopes
- Juan de Cartagena and Pedro Sánchez Reina
- Gonzalo de Vigo
- Marguerite de La Rocque
- Otokichi
- Jan Pelgrom de Bye and Wouter Loos
- 68 passengers and crew from ''Vergulde Draeck''
- Upper Steersman Abraham Leeman and 13 others
- A Miskito called Will
- Alexander Selkirk
- Philip Ashton
- Survivors of the ''Zuytdorp''
- Leendert Hasenbosch
- Charles Barnard
- Crews of the ''Grafton'' and ''Invercauld''
- Steven Callahan
- ''Strathmore''
- Other castaways
- Castaways in popular culture
- Pre-20th century
- Literature
- Films
- Television
- Games
- Minor part of the story
- ''Desert Island Discs''
- See also
- References
- External links
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).
The provisions and resources available to castaways may allow them to live on the island until other people arrive to take them off the island. However, such rescue missions may never happen if the person is not known to still be alive, if the fact that they are missing is unknown, or if the island is not mapped. These scenarios have given rise to the plots of numerous stories in the form of novels and film.