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Revision as of 07:08, 15 November 2010
Rocky cliffs of Crab Island
Crab Island is an island in the Caribbean Sea on which the young Peter Duck was washed-up after being shipwrecked. While living as a castaway on the island, Peter Duck saw two piratical types bury a chest at the foot of a tree. His telling of this yarn to the Swallows and Amazons leads to Wild Cats first voyage and the search for the treasure described in Peter Duck.
Native prototype
Trinidade is the largest island of the Trindade and Martim Vaz archipelago located about 1,200 kilometers (740 mi) east of Vitória in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, belonging to the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. The archipelago consists of six islands; Trindade being the largest island, with an area of 10.1 km² and Martim Vaz the second largest, with an area of 0.3 km² (30 hectares).
Trinidade should not be mistaken for the Caribbean island of Trinidad (without an E).
The Cruise of the Alerte
In 1889 EF Knight sailed to Trindade in a 64 foot yawl named the Alerte, in search of a buried treasure reported to have been left there by pirates in 1821. He wrote the book The Cruise of the Alerte about his journey with detailed descriptions of Trindade.He had previously visited the island in December 1880. There is a graphic description of the island and his adventures while exploring it in his book The Cruise Of The Falcon
Arthur Ransome, a long-time fan of Knight's sailing books, used the descriptions from Knight's books as a basis for Crab Island, except that he set the island further north in the Caribbean Sea; in a sort of in-joke, Ransome placed the island near the location of the without-an-E Trinidad.