Juan Fernandez, a mountainous island 3000 ft. high, off the Chilian coast, 420 m. W. of Valparaiso; was the lonely residence of Alexander Selkirk (1704-1709) (q.v.); was used as a penal settlement from 1819 to 1835, and is inhabited by a few seal and sea-lion hunters.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Juan, Don * Juarez, Benito