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Bookmark or Share- Tromelin Island - Atlas ObscuraTromelin Island, off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean is little more than a speck of sand covered in low-lying scrub plants, but miraculously, a group of more than 60...
- Enslaved, shipwrecked, abandoned: the Crusoes of Tromelin islandIn 1776, 57 years after Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe, eight people were rescued from a tiny, treeless island in the Indian Ocean.
- Tromelin Island - WikipediaTromelin Island (/ ˌ t r oʊ m l ɪ n / [citation needed]; French: Île Tromelin, pronounced [il tʁɔmlɛ̃]), once called the Isle of Sand, is a low, flat island in the Indian Ocean about 500 km (310 mi; 270 nmi) north of Réunion and about 450 km (280 mi; 240 nmi) east of Madagascar.
- Shipwrecked and Abandoned: The Castaways On The Island of TromelinThe survivors, a group of about sixty people, made it to Tromelin Island, which is frequently wiped clean by typhoons. After six months on the island, the remaining sailors completed a seaworthy craft and escaped—the others were left on the island for a simple, brutal reason.
- How did Malagasy slaves survive 15 years on the island of Tromelin?In 1761, after the shipwreck of l'Utile on the coral reefs of Île de Sable (now Tromelin Island), a tiny atoll lost in the Indian Ocean, Malagasy slaves were abandoned to their fate. Excavations and eyewitness accounts now provide a better understanding of their survival during 15 years of isolation.
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