Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? MORE: Kidnapped year-old saved by 2 sanitation workers on pickup route. Comments 0. Top Stories. Judges in Arbery, Rittenhouse cases frustrated as they work to maintain fair trials 2 hours ago. Expert at Rittenhouse trial zeroes in on just a few minutes 28 minutes ago. Missing Hawaii girl's adoptive parents arrested and charged with murder Nov 11, AM. Nov 10, AM. ABC News Live. In June , Massachusetts-based fisherman Philip Ashton was trawling the seas near Nova Scotia when his schooner was set upon by a band of pirates led by the notorious Edward Low.
The beleaguered fisherman finally made an escape in March , when he sprinted into the jungle after the pirates stopped for fresh water at a small island off the coast of Honduras. Though stranded with no food or tools, Ashton managed to construct a crude shelter and ate fruit and raw turtle eggs to ward off starvation. He wasted away on his island alone until November , when he encountered a British man who had escaped the Spanish.
The fellow castaway disappeared after only a few days, but left behind a knife and other supplies that Ashton used to continue surviving. He would eventually spend another seven months enduring extreme heat, insects, snakes, hunger, a near-deadly fever and even an attack by the Spanish before he was rescued by a British ship in June Juana Maria had grown up on San Nicholas, but most of her tribe was slaughtered in the early s by hostile hunters.
Missionaries evacuated the few remaining survivors in , but Juana Maria was left behind when she ran back to the island to locate her missing infant. She never found the child, but when attempts to rescue her stalled, she was forgotten and left to survive on San Nicholas in complete isolation. Juana Maria spent the next 18 years taking shelter in a cave and fishing with hooks made from seashells.
She captured sea birds and seals and fashioned their feathers and skins into dresses, and passed the time weaving baskets and bowls from grasses. Her solitude finally came to an end in , when Captain George Nidever discovered her on San Nicholas. Nidever took Juana Maria to Santa Barbara a few weeks later, and though no one could speak her language, she used hand gestures to relate the astonishing story of her survival.
Sadly, she was unable to adjust to the diet of the mainland, and died of dysentery only two months after leaving her island. The first, led by Shackleton himself, planned to land on Antarctica below South America before making a perilous transcontinental crossing. The crew of the Ross Sea party docked near McMurdo Sound in January and began the slow, excruciating task of placing supply depots every 60 miles. Despite being stranded at the edge of the world with dwindling resources, the ten castaways continued their mission and successfully laid the necessary supply caches, losing three men in the process.
The survivors then spent almost a year confined to a small hut before they were rescued in January But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Alexander Selkirk.
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