by Ken Scadden
Survivors of shipwrecks on the subantarctic islands only had each other and their own resourcefulness to rely on. Marooned on isolated islands, they had to make clothes and shelter, get a fire going and find food. And there was always the fear that they might never be rescued.
Main image: Alphonse de Neuville's illustration in F. E. Raynal’s Wrecked on a reef (1880)
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