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Barbara Thompson.
13 year old Scots girl who lived with natives for five years before rescue (1831-1916)
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About Barbara Thompson
Barbara Crawford Thompson was a Scottish woman who, as a teenaged girl, survived a shipwreck in the Torres Strait Islands of Australia and spent five years living with the local Kaurareg people. She was possibly the sole survivor of the November 1844 wreck of the cutter America, which ran onto Madjii Reef at Horn Island in Endeavour Strait near Cape York, Queensland.
Everything about Barbara Thompson →- Born
- 1831
- Died
- 1916