Talk:Juan Fernández Islands
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About Juan Fernandez nationality please see the Chilean Government site: http://www.gobiernodechile.cl/canal_regional/detalle.asp?veregion=5 (5th paragraph from the bottom)
or other Chilean sites such as: http://www.mav.cl/robinson/juanfernandez/historia.htm http://www.endemica.com/hhist.html http://www.gochile.cl/spa/Tour/Tours-Juan-Fernandez.asp
Somebody had invented something about a so called Joao Fernandes working for the Spanish crown and a weird history about switching names from Portuguese to Spanish and so… This is absolutely fake, and also the date when Juan Fernández arrived the islands. Juan Fernández was born in Seville, Spain, and was working for his own country. I have corrected the error.
[edit] Contradictions
There appears to be a contradiction in the size of the islnads. In the introduction, "The islands have an area of 181 km², of which 93 km² are taken up by Robinson Crusoe (together with Santa Clara), and 33 km² by Alexander Selkirk."
In the Geology section, "Alexander Selkirk is the largest of the islands, at 50 km²; its highest peak is Los Innocentes at 1319 meters. Robinson Crusoe is 48 km², and the highest peak, El Yunque, is 916 meters. Santa Clara is 2.2 km², and reaches 350 meters."
There is a difference of 17 sqkm between the quotes. The first quote indicates that Crusoe is most likely the largest (based on the maps), but the second quote belies that.
What is correct?
- I have the same question. Does anybody know something about that ? If we check the history, we can see that in September 2005 the area was 126 km². Thank you. Duloup 13:50, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
