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Woman survives fifteen months alone on Indian Ocean island
Liela Ponquet, an 18 year old French trapeze artist, drifted ashore on a tiny island north of the Bellona reefs after a typhoon sank the Lilly. She built two rooms from stones and driftwood, hunted for food, and even killed her pet lion in a desperate struggle before finally being rescued by the Cyprus near Noumea.
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Robinson Crusoe
Indian Ocean
Liela Ponquet
France
Marseilles
Lilly
Belep
New Caledonia
Ponquet
New Zealand
Palmerston
Christchurch
Timaru
Nelson
Wellington
North Island
Melbourne
Liela
Desert Island
Breton
America
Australia
Melburne
Sydney
Clarendon
Newsle
Brisbane
Mons
Bellona
Chesterfield Islands
Crusoe
Lida
Cyprus
Noumea