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The Sims is a series of life simulation video games developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The franchise has sold nearly 200 million copies worldwide, and it is one of the best-selling video games series of all time.^[1]

The games in the Sims series are largely sandbox games, in that they lack any defined goals (except for some later expansion packs and console versions which introduced this gameplay style). The player creates virtual people called 'Sims' and places them in houses and helps direct their moods and satisfy their desires. Players can either place their Sims in pre-constructed homes or build them themselves. Each successive expansion pack and game in the series augmented what the player could do with their Sims.

The Sims series is part of larger Sim series.

• 2Games
  • 2.1Main series
  • 2.2Spin-offs
  • 2.3Console and handheld versions
• 3Legacy

Development[edit]

Game designer Will Wright was inspired to create a 'virtual doll house' after losing his home during the Oakland firestorm of 1991 and subsequently rebuilding his life.^[2][3] Replacing his home and his other possessions made him think about adapting that life experience into a game. When Wright initially took his ideas to the Maxis board of the directors, they were skeptical and gave little support or financing for the game. The directors at Electronic Arts, which bought Maxis in 1997, were more receptive—SimCity had been a great success for them, and they foresaw the possibility of building a strong Sim franchise.^[2]

Wright has stated that The Sims was actually meant as a satire of U.S. consumer culture.^[4] Wright took ideas from the 1977 architecture and urban design book A Pattern Language, American psychologist Abraham Maslow's 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation and his hierarchy of needs, and Charles Hampden-Turner's Maps of the Mind to develop a model for the game's artificial intelligence.^[2]

Games[edit]

Main series[edit]

The Sims[edit]

The Sims was the first game in the series. Developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts, it was released for Microsoft Windows in February 2000. The game used dimetric projection and featured open-ended simulation of the daily activities of one or more virtual persons ('Sims') in a suburban area near SimCity. Seven expansion packs and two deluxe editions with exclusive content were released. It was repackaged in several different formats, and different versions of it were released on several different platforms. By March 22, 2002, The Sims had sold more than 6.3 million copies worldwide, surpassing Myst^[5] as the best-selling PC game in history at the time. The original game, all seven expansion packs, and the two deluxe edition content packs constitute the first generation of the series on the PC. All PC releases were developed by Maxis. By February 2005, the game had shipped 16 million copies worldwide.^[6]

The Sims 2[edit]

Electronic Arts released The Sims 2 on September 14, 2004. The sequel, developed by Maxis, takes place in a full 3D environment as opposed to the dimetric projection of the original game. Sims age through seven life stages, from infancy to old age and subsequent death. Another major feature is the aspiration system. Each Sim exhibits wants and fears according to its aspiration and personality. Consequently, the level of the aspiration meter determines the effectiveness of a Sim at completing tasks. The fulfillment of wants provides aspiration points, which can be used to purchase aspiration rewards. In addition, the game features clear days of the week, with weekends when children can stay home from school and vacation days when adults can take time off work.

The Sims 2 is set some 25 years after the original game. For instance, the Goth family has aged significantly with Bella Goth mysteriously vanishing ('dying') at some point in the 25-year period. Because the entire game has progressed from 2D sprites to 3D models, all content in The Sims 2 had to be created from the ground up. Due to this, The Sims 2 was not made backwards-compatible with any content from the first generation of the main series. However, some objects and features from the original series were remade for the sequel.

Electronic Arts released eight expansion packs and nine stuff packs for The Sims 2. Over 400 items were also released for the game via The Sims 2 Store. In addition, items including pre-order items were released over the life cycle of this generation.

The Sims 3[edit]

Electronic Arts released The Sims 3 on June 2, 2009.^[7] The sequel was announced by EA in November 2006. The game is set 25 years prior to the original game, and features an open, seamless neighborhood, improved tools for Sim creation, enhanced build and buy mode functions, and the introduction of wishes and goals. The game introduced a new form of directed gameplay through small, step-wise goals presented as opportunities which the player may choose to pursue or refuse. The Sims 3 sold 1.4 million copies in the first week, making it the largest release in PC gaming history at the time.^[8]

Eleven expansion packs and nine stuff packs were released for the third generation of the series. In addition, many items are available online for additional fees at The Sims 3 Store.

The Sims 4[edit]

Electronic Arts announced The Sims 4 on May 6, 2013.^[9] The announcement stated that the game was in development by Maxis. The Sims 4 takes place in an alternative setting from the previous installment of the game. Later in 2014, further details on features and gameplay were announced. A release date of September 2, 2014 was announced at E3 2014.

As of July 2019, seven expansion packs, seven game packs, and fourteen stuff packs have been released for the fourth generation of the series. Updates have added content that was previously absent due to time restraints, such as basements, ghosts, pools, toddlers and terrain tools. New careers have also been added.

Spin-offs[edit]

The Sims Online[edit]

In December 2002, Electronic Arts released the Maxis-developed The Sims Online, which was later named EA Land. It recreates The Sims as a massively multiplayer online game, where human players can interact with each other. The spin-off did not achieve the same level of success as the original. Reviews for The Sims Online were lackluster. Many reviewers likened The Sims Online experience to an enormous chat room. On August 1, 2008, EA-Land's shops were closed.

The Sims Stories[edit]

The Sims Stories is a series of video games from The Sims series released in 2007–2008 that is based on a modified version of The Sims 2 engine. The modified game engine is optimized for play on systems with weaker specifications such as laptops. As such, its system requirements are lower than that of The Sims 2, but it can still be played on desktops.^[10] The series is introduced mainly for three segments of the market: those who wish to play The Sims 2 on their laptops (which usually have lower specifications); those who wish to engage in other activities such as instant messaging while playing the game, and; those who are new to the franchise. In addition to a Free Play mode with classic, open-ended game play, the games contain a structured, linear Story mode where players are required to complete a series of goals in order to progress in the storyline. While Life Stories and Pet Stories each contain two separate stories, Castaway Stories contains one story that is double the length of any one story in the first two games. As an introductory series, major features are removed or modified from those in The Sims 2. For example, fears are completely removed in all three games, and the elder life stage is completely removed in Pet Stories. Officially, the save files from this series are not compatible with the main The Sims 2 games. However, players have experienced success at adapting some files.

Three games have been released to date.^[11]

The Sims Carnival[edit]

The Sims Carnival was a casual games brand of The Sims. It had two separate product lines. First, it was an online community of crowd-sourced web games. Second, it was a line of packaged game titles sold via retail stores and digital download.

The Sims Medieval[edit]

The Sims Medieval is an action role playing spin-off game released in 2011. It is set in medieval time, and although it is based on The Sims 3 engine, it plays very differently. The Sims Medieval has one expansion pack, Pirates and Nobles.

The Sims Social[edit]

Launched in August 2011, The Sims Social was a Flash-based game developed by Playfish for Facebook. EA announced the game was upgraded from Beta to Live status in a press release issued on August 23, 2011.^[12] Due to negative responses from players, the game has been shut down and was removed from Facebook on June 14, 2013.

Console and handheld versions[edit]

The Sims era[edit]

The Sims is the first console release that shares the same name as the base game in the first generation of the main series.

The Sims Bustin' Out is the second title in The Sims console series. Bustin' Out was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and N-Gage in the fourth quarter of 2003. Sims can get out of the house to visit other locations such as Shiny Things Lab or Casa Caliente. There are two modes. Bust Out Mode which has mission based gameplay and Freeplay Mode which is open-ended gameplay very much like the original The Sims PC game. It was the second Sims game to not be on the PC; it was a follow up to The Sims, which was very similar to Bustin' Out, except the aims were shifted to getting job promotions and constantly fulfilling goals to get ahead in the game. The PlayStation 2 version also features the option to play online, though EA no longer supports it.

The Urbz: Sims in the City is a game focused on Sims living in an urban setting, presumably within Sim City. The player must earn reputation and complete tasks for characters. It was released for Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube, and Game Boy Advance. It features The Black Eyed Peas as NPCs.

The Sims 2[edit]

The Sims 2, The Sims 2: Pets, and The Sims 2: Castaway have been released for various platforms including the Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP, Xbox, and Nintendo DS systems. The Sims 2: Apartment Pets, considered a sequel to The Sims 2: Pets by Electronic Arts, was only released for the Nintendo DS.

In addition, EA has released several The Sims titles for the iPod Nano (3rd and 4th generation), the iPod Classic, and the iPod (5th generation). Some of these titles include: The Sims Bowling,^[13]The Sims DJ,^[14] and The Sims Pool.^[15]

MySims[edit]

MySims is series of console games created by EA for the Wii and Nintendo DS (with SkyHeroes being the exception). They feature Chibi-like characters (a tiny bit smaller and similar to the Wii's Mii avatars). The first game in the series was released in September 2007. It is also known for being the first Sim game released in Japan. MySims SkyHeroes, the newest addition to the MySims line of games, was released in September 2010.

The Sims 3[edit]

The Sims 3, The Sims 3: World Adventures, and The Sims 3: Ambitions were released for the iPhone/iPod Touch. In addition, The Sims 3 was also released for Android mobile systems and the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo DS in October 2010, and the Wii in November 2010, and the Nintendo 3DS on March 25, 2011 in Europe. The 3DS version of the game was launched with the console. The Sims 3: Pets was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo 3DS.

The Sims 4[edit]

Versions of the game for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles were released on November 17, 2017

The Sims FreePlay[edit]

The Sims FreePlay, a freemium version of The Sims for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android phones (and tablets), and Kindle Fire, was released worldwide on December 15, 2011 for iOS devices, and on February 15, 2012 for Android. The game made it to Kindle Fire in October 2012 and to BlackBerry 10 on July 31, 2013. Unlike other Sims games, The Sims FreePlay runs in real-time and takes real time to complete actions. Players can progress through 55 levels and unlock new content, create up to 34 Sims, build town map buildings, complete goals to earn Lifestyle Points, Simoleons, Social Points, and XP (Experience Points). All of these,(except for Social Points) can be get by baking, planting, going to school (Only for preteen and teens) or going to work. To get Social Points, you will need to go to neighbouring houses or add your Facebook friends.

The game is regularly updated with new content and has many events and competitions, announced at official Facebook page. Several updates for the game have been released.

The Sims Mobile[edit]

Released for Android and iPhone smartphones, The Sims Mobile was announced on May 9, 2017 in a launch trailer, and was released on March 6, 2018. It features a combination of multiplayer and story mode elements to give the player an experience more like that of the PC versions.

Legacy[edit]

The success of The Sims has resulted in Guinness World Records awarding the series numerous world records, including, as of 2017, 'Most Expansion Packs for a Videogame Series' and 'Best Selling PC Game Series', with sales estimates ranging from 36 to 50 million units.^[16]

Film[edit]

A live actiondramafilm based upon The Sims was announced in 2007.^[17] On May 25, 2007, it was announced that The Sims film rights had been purchased by 20th Century Fox.^[18] It was to be written by Brian Lynch and produced by John Davis.^[19][20]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'2016 World Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees Announced'.
2. ^ ^abcSeabrook, John (November 6, 2006). 'Game Master: Will Wright changed the concept of video games with the Sims. Can he do it again with Spore?'. The New Yorker. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
3. ^'Inspired to make The Sims after losing a home'. Berkeleyside. October 17, 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
4. ^Charlie Brooker's How Videogames Changed the World. Channel 4. November 30, 2013. Event occurs at 67 minutes.
5. ^Walker, Trey (March 22, 2002). 'The Sims overtakes Myst'. GameSpot. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
6. ^'The Sims Franchise Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary and Continues to Break Records' (Press release). Electronic Arts. February 7, 2005. Archived from the original on September 5, 2008. Retrieved October 8, 2008.
7. ^'The Sims 3'. GameRankings. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
8. ^Reilly, Jim (July 13, 2009). 'The Sims 3 Dominating PC Software Sales'. IGN. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
9. ^'Maxis Unveils The Sims 4'. EA News. May 6, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
10. ^'About – The Sims Stories'. The Sims 2 (EA). Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2007.
11. ^'About The Sims Stories: Coming Winter 2008'. Yahoo! Games. Archived from the original on June 3, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2007.
12. ^'Sims Social get 'Live' Status!'.
13. ^'The Sims Bowling for iPod'. EAmobile.com. Electronic Arts. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
14. ^'The Sims DJ for iPod'. EAmobile.com. Electronic Arts. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
15. ^'The Sims Pool for iPod'. EAmobile.com. Electronic Arts. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
16. ^Guinness World Records 2017 Gamer's Edition. Guinness World Records. 2017. p. 169.
17. ^'The Sims Coming to the Big Screen'. ComingSoon. May 25, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2007.
18. ^''The Sims' to move from PC screen to silver screen'. Reuters. May 28, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2007.
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20. ^'The Sims movie planned'. Retrieved August 9, 2016.

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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 deserted island, either to evade captors or the world in general. How much do uber drivers make in phoenix arizona. 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.

• 1Real occurrences
• 2Castaways in popular culture

Real occurrences[edit]

Thorgisl[edit]

Icelander Thorgisl set out to travel to Greenland. He and his party were first driven into a remote sound on the east coast of Greenland. Thorgisl, his infant son and several others were then abandoned there by their thralls. Thorgisl and his party traveled slowly along the coast to the Eystribyggð settlement of Erik the Red on the southwest coast of Greenland. Along the way they met a Viking, an outlaw who had escaped to East Greenland. This history is told in Flóamanna saga and Origines Islandicae and occurred during the early years of Viking Greenland, while Leif Ericson was still alive.

Grettir Ásmundarson[edit]

Icelander Grettir Ásmundarson was outlawed by the assembly in Iceland. After many years on the run he and two companions went to the forbidden island of Drangey, where he lived several more years before his pursuers managed to kill him in 1031.

Fernão Lopes[edit]

The Portuguese soldier Fernão Lopes was marooned on the island of Saint Helena in 1513. He had lost his right hand, the thumb of his left hand, his nose and his ears as punishment for mutiny and apostasy for converting to Islam. For the rest of his life – he died about 1545 – Lopes stayed on the island, except for two years around 1530, when the Portuguese king helped him travel to Rome, where the Pope granted him absolution for his sin of apostasy.

Juan de Cartagena and Pedro Sánchez Reina[edit]

In April 1520, a mutiny broke out in Magellan's fleet while at the Patagonian seashore. Magellan put it down and executed some of the ringleaders. He then punished two others: the King of Spain's delegate, Juan de Cartagena and the priest, Pedro Sánchez Reina, by marooning them in that desolate place. They were never heard from again.

Gonzalo de Vigo[edit]

Gonzalo de Vigo was a Spanish sailor (Galician) who deserted from Gonzalo Gomez de Espinosa's Trinidad, part of the Spanish expedition of Ferdinand Magellan, while in the Maug Islands in August 1522. He lived with the Chamorros for four years and visited thirteen main islands in the Marianas until he was unexpectedly found in Guam in 1526 by the flagship of the Loaísa Expedition, on its way to the Spice Islands and the second circumnavigation of the globe. Gonzalo de Vigo was the first recorded European castaway in the history of the Pacific Ocean.^[1]

Marguerite de La Rocque[edit]

A French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque was marooned in 1542 on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, off the coast of Quebec. She was left by her near relative Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval, a nobleman privateer, as punishment for her affair with a young man on board ship. The young man joined her, as did a servant woman, both of whom later died, as did the baby de la Rocque bore. Marguerite survived by hunting wild animals and was later rescued by fishermen. She returned to France and became well known when her story was recorded by the Queen of Navarre in her work Heptaméron.

Jan Pelgrom de Bye and Wouter Loos[edit]

In 1629 Jan Pelgrom de Bye van Bemel, a cabin boy, and Wouter Loos, a 24-year-old soldier, had been on board the Dutch ship Batavia. The ship was famous because it was wrecked on Morning Reef of the Wallabi Group of the Houtman Abrolhos, (off the west coast of Australia) leading to the infamous Batavia Mutiny and mass killings. When all culprits were arrested on the islets, most of them were either hanged or sent to court in the town of Batavia (now Jakarta). However, Jan Pelgrom and Wouter Loos were marooned on the Australian mainland, probably at or near the mouth of Hutt River in Western Australia, on 16 November 1629. They were the first Europeans to reside in Australia. Abel Tasman (whose last name now names Tasmania) was subsequently ordered to search for the castaways on his voyage along the coasts of northern Australia in 1643–44 but did not sail that far south. They were not seen again by Europeans. It has been argued by Rupert Gerritsen in And Their Ghosts May Be Heard and subsequent publications that they survived and had a profound influence on local Aboriginal groups such as the Nhanda and Amangu.

68 passengers and crew from Vergulde Draeck[edit]

In the early hours of 28 April 1656 a Dutch vessel belonging to the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), Vergulde Draeck, struck a reef off Ledge Point on the central west coast of Western Australia, about 5 kilometres from shore, and approximately 90 kilometres north of where Perth now stands. At least 75 individuals made it to shore, where they camped. Seven men departed in a boat, making for Batavia, now known as Jakarta, at the western end of Java. They arrived there on 7 June 1656 and raised the alarm. A number of ships were then dispatched over the following two years to search for the survivors who had remained behind, but an incorrect latitude meant the searches focused on the wrong area. The original campsite, by then abandoned, was not found until 26 February 1658, by a shore party led by Upper Steersman Abraham Leeman.^[2] There has been much speculation as to the fate of the 68, who may have ended up east of Geraldton, approximately 350 kilometres to the north, ultimately integrating with the local Aboriginal population.^[3] Two stone arrangements, the Ring of Stones, found to the north in modern times may have been markers left by the 68 survivors. Archaeological investigations are continuing in an endeavour to locate the original campsite.

Upper Steersman Abraham Leeman and 13 others[edit]

On 28 March 1658, while searching for the 68 survivors of the wreck of Vergulde Draeck along the lower central west coast of Western Australia, Upper Steersman Abraham Leeman and his boat crew of 13 from Waeckende Boey (also known as Waeckende Boeij ('Watching Buoy')) were inexplicably abandoned by the skipper, Samuel Volkersen of that ship. They were then about 180 km north of present-day Perth. Their boat was in poor condition, they had no water, just a few pounds of flour contaminated by seawater, and some rashers of bacon.

Leeman, who kept a journal,^[4] rallied his crew. They found water by digging on an offshore islet, and then killed seals and dried the meat, using the skins to raise the sides of the boat. Leeman even constructed his own compass. They then set sail for Java. They made their way up the Western Australian coast, and after a voyage of 2500 km reached the eastern end of Java with the loss of only one man. In endeavouring to land their boat was wrecked and many of the men ran off into the jungle. Leeman and his three remaining companions then walked the full length of the south coast of Java, through jungle, volcanic country, braving marauding tigers along the way. Upon getting to the western end of Java they were captured by a Javanese prince and held for ransom. The Dutch then paid the ransom and Leeman and his compatriots finally made it to Batavia (Jakarta) on 23 September 1658.^[5]

A Miskito called Will[edit]

In 1681, a Miskito named Will by his English comrades was sent ashore as part of an English foraging party to Más a Tierra. When he was hunting for goats in the interior of the island he suddenly saw his comrades departing in haste after having spotted the approach of enemies, leaving Will behind to survive until he was picked up in 1684.

Alexander Selkirk[edit]

The Juan Fernández Islands, to which Más a Tierra belongs, would have a more famous occupant in October 1704 when Alexander Selkirk made the decision to stay there. Selkirk, a sailor with the William Dampier expedition, became concerned about the condition and seaworthiness of the Cinque Ports, the vessel on which he was sailing, and chose to be put ashore on the island. The ship later sank with most of its crew being lost. Being a voluntary castaway, Selkirk was able to gather numerous provisions to help him to survive, including a musket, gunpowder, carpenter's tools, a knife, a Bible, and clothing. He survived on the island for four years and four months, building huts and hunting the plentiful wildlife before his rescue on 2 February 1709. His adventures are said to be a possible inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, a novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719.^[who?]

Philip Ashton[edit]

Philip Ashton, born in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1702, was captured by pirates while fishing near the coast of Nova Scotia in June 1722. He managed to escape in March 1723 when the pirates' ship landed at Roatán in the Bay Islands of Honduras, hiding in the jungle until the pirates left him there. He survived for 16 months, in spite of many insects, tropical heat, and crocodiles. He had no equipment at all until he met another castaway, an Englishman. The Englishman disappeared after a few days but he left behind a knife, gunpowder, tobacco, and more. Ashton was finally rescued by the Diamond, a ship from Salem, Massachusetts.^[6]

Survivors of the Zuytdorp[edit]

The Zuytdorp departed from the Cape of Good Hope on 22 April 1712 with at least 200 to 250 people on board, including women and children, and disappeared. It is now thought to have struck the Zuytdorp Cliffs on the central coast of Western Australia in early June 1712. The first signs of the wreck were found in 1927 but it was not until 1959 that the identity of the wreck was confirmed by Dr. Philip Playford.^[7] The discovery of a considerable amount of material from the wreck on the scree slope and top of the cliffs established that many people had managed to get off the stricken vessel and on to shore. Exactly how many people survived the disaster is uncertain and estimates vary from 30 up to 180 or more. There has been speculation that the survivors headed east along the Murchison River, 60 kilometres to the south. However, finds of a coin and a 'Leyden Tobacco Tin' at wells to the north, as well as linguistic and technological evidence suggest they headed north, perhaps ending up in the northern Gascoyne, about 450 kilometres north of the wrecksite.^[8] It is thought the survivors ultimately integrated with local Aboriginal populations.

Leendert Hasenbosch[edit]

Leendert Hasenbosch was a Dutch ship's officer (a bookkeeper), probably born in 1695. He was set ashore on the uninhabited Ascension Island on 5 May 1725 as a punishment for sodomy. He was left behind with a tent, a survival kit, and an amount of water sufficient to last about four weeks. He had bad luck in that no ships called at the island during his stay. He ate seabirds and green turtles, but probably died of thirst after about six months. He wrote a diary that was found in January 1726 by British mariners who brought the diary back to Britain. The diary was rewritten and published a number of times.

In 2002, the full truth of the story was disclosed in a book by Dutch historian Michiel Koolbergen (1953–2002), the first to mention Hasenbosch by name. Before that time, the castaway's name had not been known. The story is available in English as A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725.^[9][10]

Chunosuke Matsuyama[edit]

In 1784, Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese seaman and 43 of his companions began a voyage to find buried treasure on a Pacific island. During the voyage, a storm blew the group's ship onto a coral reef and forced the sailors to seek refuge on a nearby island. However, the crew was unable to find fresh water or sufficient food on the island. With a limited food supply, consisting mostly of crabs and coconuts, the sailors began to die from dehydration and starvation. Before his own death, Matsuyama carved a message telling the story of his group's shipwreck into thin pieces of wood from a coconut tree, which he inserted into a bottle and threw into the ocean. Approximately 151 years later, in 1935, a Japanese seaweed collector found the bottle. The bottle had washed ashore in the village of Hiraturemura, where Matsuyama was born.^[11]

Charles Barnard[edit]

In 1812, the British ship Isabella, captained by George Higton, was shipwrecked off Eagle Island, one of the Falkland Islands. Most of the crew was rescued by the American sealerNanina, commanded by Captain Charles Barnard. However, realising that they would require more provisions for the expanded number of passengers, Barnard and a few others went out in a party to retrieve more food. During his absence, the Nanina was taken over by the British crew, who left them on the island. Barnard and his party were finally rescued in November 1814. In 1829, Barnard wrote A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Captain Charles Barnard detailing the happenings.

Crews of the Grafton and Invercauld[edit]

On January 3, 1864, the 56 ton schooner Grafton was wrecked in the north arm of Carnley Harbour, Auckland Island. The five-man crew, led by Captain Thomas Musgrave and Francois Edouard Raynal as mate, spent twenty months on the island until three of them went out for rescue in the ship's dinghy, sailing more than 400 km up north to Stewart Island. All men survived.Unknown to them, on May 11, 1864, the ship Invercauld bound from Melbourne to Callao was wrecked in bad weather on the west coast of the same island. From the initial crew of 25, only 19 made it to shore and after more than a year spent on the island only three men survived starvation and cold, being rescued by a ship looking for a shelter to make repairs.

USS Indianapolis (CA-35)[edit]

USS Indianapolis (CL/CA-35) was a Portland-classheavy cruiser of the United States Navy. At 00:15 on 30 July 1945, she was struck on her starboard side by two Type 95 torpedoes, one in the bow and one amidships, from the Japanese submarine I-58,^[12] captained by CommanderMochitsura Hashimoto, who initially thought he had spotted the New Mexico-class battleshipIdaho.^[13] The explosions caused massive damage. Indianapolis took on a heavy list, (the ship had a great deal of added armament and gun firing directors added as the war went on and was top heavy)^[14] and settled by the bow. Twelve minutes later, she rolled completely over, then her stern rose into the air, and she plunged down. Some 300 of the 1,195 crewmen went down with the ship.^[15] With few lifeboats and many without lifejackets, the remainder of the crew was set adrift.^[16]

Navy command did not know of the ship's sinking until survivors were spotted three and a half days later. At 10:25 on 2 August, a PV-1 Ventura flown by Lieutenant Wilbur 'Chuck' Gwinn and his copilot, Lieutenant Warren Colwell, spotted the men adrift while on a routine patrol flight.^[17] Gwinn immediately dropped a life raft and radio transmitter. All air and surface units capable of rescue operations were dispatched to the scene at once.

The survivors suffered from lack of food and water (leading to dehydration and hypernatremia; some found rations, such as Spam and crackers, amongst the debris), exposure to the elements (leading to hypothermia and severe desquamation), and shark attacks, while some killed themselves or other survivors in various states of delirium and hallucinations.^[18][19] Two of the rescued survivors, Robert Lee Shipman and Frederick Harrison, died in August 1945.

'Ocean of Fear', a 2007 episode of the Discovery Channel TV documentary series Shark Week, states that the sinking of Indianapolis resulted in the most shark attacks on humans in history, and attributes the attacks to the oceanic whitetip shark species. Tiger sharks might have also killed some sailors. The same show attributed most of the deaths on Indianapolis to exposure, salt poisoning, and thirst, with the dead being dragged off by sharks.^[20]

Other castaways[edit]

Other castaways in history include:

• Pedro Serrano, a 16th-century Spanish sailor marooned in the Caribbean
• Four Russian whalers, Aleksei Inkov, Khrisanf Inkov, Stepan Sharapov, and Fedor Verigin, survived from 1743 to 1749 probably on Halvmåneøya in the Svalbard group of Norwegian islands; one died shortly before rescue^[21]
• The Bounty's mutineers and Tahitian women
• Oguri Jukichi, a Japanese captain whose disabled ship floated across the Pacific Ocean and who was eventually rescued by an American ship off the California coast near Santa Barbara in 1815
• James Riley, who led his crew through the Sahara Desert, after they were shipwrecked off the coast of Western Sahara in August 1815
• Otokichi, a Japanese boy whose ship was cast adrift and after 14 months reached the west coast of North America in 1834
• Nakahama Manjirō, a Japanese fisherman's son, shipwrecked on Tori-shima in 1841, who was rescued by an American ship and played a role in the opening up of Japan to the West
• Juana Maria, the last surviving member of the Nicoleño, who lived alone on San Nicolas Island, California from 1835 to 1853 and inspired Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins
• 22 men of Ernest Shackleton's crew on Elephant Island off the Antarctic Peninsula for four months in 1916
• Ada Blackjack, an Inuit woman left alone (1921–23) on Wrangel Island when a European expedition went wrong
• Poon Lim, a Chinese sailor from a British ship sunk by a German submarine who survived 133 days alone in the South Atlantic in 1942–43
• Dougal Robertson, author of Survive the Savage Sea, and his family, experienced sailors from Scotland who were sailing to the Galápagos Islands from Panama when their boat was sunk by a pod of killer whales and who survived for 38 days on a lifeboat before being picked up by a fishing trawler
• Gerald Kingsland and Lucy Irvine, author of Castaway, British writers and self-imposed castaways for a year (1982–83) on Barney Island, Queensland, in the Torres Strait between New Guinea and Australia
• 16 people who were washed onto an island during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and were rescued after two months^{[citation needed]}
• Jesús Vidaña, Salvador Ordoñez and Lucio Rendon, three Mexican fishermen from the port of San Blas, Nayarit who sailed 5,500 miles (8,900 km) in nine months before being rescued 200 miles (320 km) from the Marshall Islands on August 9, 2006
• On December 19, 2011, two fishermen from the Republic of Kiribati landed in the Marshall Islands where they were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. The men were adrift for 33 days and fed on tuna. The two men, aged 53 and 26, were also involved in a rare incident upon landing when the 26-year-old found that his uncle, who had disappeared at sea more than 25 years ago and was long believed dead, had landed in the Marshall Islands as well and married there, where he also had children.^[22]
• On September 17, 2012, a man from the Republic of Kiribati was rescued after being at sea for 105 days. The man said that a shark swam around the boat and took it off in a direction. He followed it and as he followed it with his eyes he looked up and there was the stern of a purse seiner with a bunch of crewmen with binoculars looking at him.^[23]
• On January 30, 2014, a fisherman from El Salvador named Jose Salvador Albarengo was found by people living at the Ebon Atoll. Albarengo claimed to have spent 13 months adrift after his ship's motor failed off the coast of Mexico. He said another fisherman sailing with him had died several months before he was rescued. He reportedly survived by eating turtles, birds and fish caught with his bare hands.
• On March 9, 2017, 21-year-old Filipino fisherman Rolando Omongos was rescued near New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea after spending 56 days adrift and travelling 3,200 km. Along with his 31-year-old uncle Reniel Omongos and other fishermen, Rolando Omongos sailed off from General Santos City, Philippines aboard a purse seiner. On January 10, 2017, a storm separated Rolando and his uncle from their mother boat and they ran out of fuel five days later. Rolando survived on rainwater and moss growing at the hull of his 2.5-meter (8-foot) boat. Reniel, who was on another small boat, died after one month due to hunger and exposure. Rolando kept his uncle's corpse until it began to smell. During his ordeal, Omongos claimed that 'no fewer than four vessels' would pass him everyday, yet they failed to see him.^[24][25]

Castaways in popular culture[edit]

Various novels, television shows and films tell the story of castaways:

Pre-20th century[edit]

• The Odyssey, an ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer
• Sinbad the Sailor, a Middle Eastern folk tale
• Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (Philosophus Autodidactus), a 12th-century novel by Ibn Tufail
• Theologus Autodidactus, a 13th-century novel by Ibn al-Nafis
• The Tempest, a 1611 play by William Shakespeare
• Wildflower The Barbara Crawford Thompson Story, is based on the life of a 12-year-old Barbara Crawford who was taken from her home in Sydney in 1843. She was rescued after being shipwrecked in November 1844
• Robinson Crusoe (1719), a novel by Daniel Defoe based loosely on the real life of Alexander Selkirk, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English
• Lemuel Gulliver, a physician in Gulliver's Travels, a satire by Jonathan Swift
• The Swiss Family Robinson, an 1812 book by Johann David Wyss that has been adapted into various film and television versions
• Wildflower The Barbara Crawford Thompson Story, is based on the life of a 12-year-old Barbara Crawford who was taken from her home in Sydney in 1843. She was rescued after being shipwrecked in November 1844
• Ben Gunn, a pirate marooned in Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Several late 19th century novels by Jules Verne, such as:
  • In Search of the Castaways, published in 1868, narrating the search for Captain Grant by his children after a message in a bottle from him is found
  • The Mysterious Island, published in 1874
  • Godfrey Morgan, published in 1882, also known as School for Robinsons
  • Two Years' Vacation, published in 1888, which relates the fortunes of a group of schoolboys stranded on a deserted island

Literature[edit]

This is a list of fiction. There are also memoirs such as Castaway.

• The Blue Lagoon, a 1908 romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole about two children stranded on a tropical island after a shipwreck, with multiple film adaptations
• Baby Island, a 1937 novel by Carol Ryrie Brink about two preteen sisters caring for four babies on a South Seas island
• 'Survivor Type', a 1982 short story by Stephen King about a shipwrecked surgeon who ends up eating parts of his own body to survive
• Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding, and several movie versions
• Hatchet, a novel that follows the life of a teenage boy as he survives in the Canadian wilderness after the plane he was on crashes.
• Island of the Blue Dolphins, a book by Scott O'Dell about a girl marooned on an island for 18 years
• Kensuke's Kingdom, a 1999 children's novel by Michael Morpurgo about a boy who travels the world with his parents but ends up marooned on an island
• Life of Pi, in which the title character, Pi Patel, spends months on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger
• The End, the final novel in A Series of Unfortunate Events
• The Martian, a 2011 novel by Andy Weir, later a film, in which the Castaway literary tradition of self-reliance and will to survive is transposed to the planet Mars.

Films[edit]

Television[edit]

Games[edit]

• Johnny Castaway (1993), a screensaver that follows the daily exploits of its namesake
• The Island (1993)
• The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: The Secret of the Living Volcano (1999), a PC game created by The Learning Company
• Survival Kids (1999)
• Stranded (2003)
• Let's Go Jungle!: Lost on the Island of Spice (2006)
• Lost in Blue (2005)
• The Sims 2: Castaway (2007)
• Lost in Blue 2 (2007)
• Lost in Blue 3 (2007)
• Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked (2008)
• The Sims Castaway Stories (2008)
• Return to Mysterious Island 2 (2009)
• Return to Mysterious Island (2004)
• Stranded Deep (2015)

Minor part of the story[edit]

Castaways are part of other stories as well, where the event is not the central plot but is still an important aspect. Examples include:

Desert Island Discs[edit]

Desert Island Discs is a BBC Radio 4 interview show in which the subject is invited to consider themselves as a castaway on a desert island, and then select their eight favourite records, one favourite book (in addition to The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare), and a luxury inanimate object to occupy their time.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Coello, Francisco. 'Conflicto hispano-alemán', Boletín de Sociedad Geográfica de Madrid, t.XIX. 2º semestre 1885, Madrid, pp. 233, 301
2. ^Rupert Gerritsen 2011 Selected Transcriptions and Translations, and Collation of Information .. .. Relating to Material Evidence from the Vergulde Draeck .. 1656–1658, Canberra: Batavia Online Publishing.
3. ^Rupert Gerritsen 1994 And Their Ghosts May Be Heard, South Fremantle: Fremantle Art Centre Press. pp. 232–46.
4. ^‘Journaal of te dag register van mijne voyagie ..’
5. ^See James Henderson 1982 Marooned, Perth: St. George Books.
6. ^'Pirate Biographies' at The New England Pirate Museum. Accessed 4 December 2005.
7. ^Philip Playford 1960 'The Wreck of the Zuytdorp On the Western Australian Coast in 1712', Nedlands: Royal Western Australian Historical Society.
8. ^Rupert Gerritsen 1994 And Their Ghosts May Be Heard pp. 252–60; Philip Playford 1996 Carpet of Silver: The Wreck of the Zuytdorp Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press pp. 213–17.
9. ^Alex Ritsema, A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725 (2010), ISBN978-1-4461-8986-3
10. ^Michiel Koolbergen, Een Hollandse Robinson Crusoë (2002), ISBN90-74622-23-2
11. ^Robert Kraske, The Twelve Million Dollar Note: Strange but True Tales of Messages Found in Seagoing Bottles (1977), pp. 30–32. ISBN0-8407-6575-4.
12. ^Jeff Shaara (2012). The Final Storm: A Novel of the War in the Pacific. Random House Publishing Group. pp. 434–. ISBN978-0-345-49795-6.
13. ^Bob Hackett and Sander Kingsepp (2008). 'Submarine I-58: Tabular Record of Movement'. combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
14. ^Budge, Kent G. 'The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia: Portland Class, U.S. Heavy Cruisers'. www.pwencycl.kgbudge.com. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
15. ^Neuman, Scott (23 March 2018). 'Navy Admits To 70-Year Crew List Error In USS Indianapolis Disaster'. NPR.org. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
16. ^Lewis L. Haynes (July–August 1995). 'Recollections of the sinking of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) by CAPT Lewis L. Haynes, MC (Medical Corps) (Ret.), the senior medical officer on board the ship'. Navy Medicine. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
17. ^Marks (April 1981) pp. 48–50
18. ^In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
19. ^'The Story (Delayed Rescue)'. the USS Indianapolis National Memorial. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
20. ^'Discovery Channel's Shark Week: Ocean of Fear'. Amazon.com. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
21. ^Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World. (2003). Simon & Schuster. ISBN0-7432-2431-0
22. ^'Pacific castaways find long-lost relatives'. ABC.net.au. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
23. ^'Kiribati man has shark to thank after 105 days lost at sea'. Radio New Zealand International. Retrieved September 19, 2012.
24. ^'Filipino rescued in PNG after 56 days adrift'. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Agence France-Presse. March 25, 2017. Archived from the original on March 25, 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
25. ^'Philippines fisherman tells of deadly two-month ordeal stranded at sea'. The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2017.

External links[edit]

• Adams, Cecil (2 December 2005). Not necessarily Lost: Are there actual cases of castaways who have been rescued? at The Straight Dope. Accessed 4 December 2005.