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How Shipwrecked Teens Built Their Own "City" on an Abandoned Island

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Go to https://nordvpn.com/brew to get a 2-year plan plus 1 additional month with a huge discount. It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee! After finally breaking free of their quiet home island, expecting smooth sailing all the way to a tropical paradise, teenage castaways instead found themselves adrift for 8 days with no land in sight, rationing what little they had, pitted in a fight against nature itself. Akin to a real life Lord of the Flies by William Golding, this is the story of 6 young boys who not only survived, but thrived on an uninhabited island for 15 months with nothing but their bare hands, and friendships that could weather any tropical storm. Let’s get into it! Sources: [6 Shipwrecked Teenagers: The Tonga Boys] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adky9/shipwrecked-on-uninhabited-desert-island https://people.com/human-interest/inside-real-life-lord-of-the-flies-survival-of-6-tongan-boys-54-years-ago/ https://youtu.be/qHO_RlJxnVI https://youtu.be/0CbyVNUuDYw https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months [Peter Warner: Rescue Mission] https://youtu.be/tT1C4BSRzak [Peruvian Labour Trade in Polynesia] https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6353332 [Who Owns Indigenous Stories?] https://william-golding.co.uk/books/lord-of-the-flies https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/rutger-bregman/humankind/9780316418553/ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-16/tongans-say-shipwreck-story-not-lord-of-the-flies-tale/12249028 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41555906 [Other Sources] https://youtu.be/DYebOCCoTYM https://youtu.be/88noN4PoJqc https://youtu.be/10Bv8sTUudM https://youtu.be/5zXWLbr1LyY https://youtu.be/vFvw7yF46XE https://youtu.be/CNMge-3ES-4 https://youtu.be/zEMcEYZr7Cw https://youtu.be/0eWUhXPhIaE https://youtu.be/ZFySCUreS_w https://youtu.be/nOEn4ygmJnM https://youtu.be/8w0ILjgHfhw https://youtu.be/OAhCfI5hLjU https://youtu.be/yaQeVnN6pUc Photo by Wendy Cutler: https://flic.kr/p/dCwHrX Photo by KG Wiley from H.E. Maude’s Sl—s in Paradise: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/114682/2/b12494185.pdf Image of Island, Native Plant Info from Birds of ‘Ata and Late: https://www.notornis.osnz.org.nz/system/files/Notornis_38_2_131.pdf [Brew’s intro song] Manhattan Twist by Avocado Junkie [Music Licensing] Code: QNVD4KPJASKUD3DG, X3VUUO37MQUXCGRY, QKVFNIDRCOQSQYLY, HYNKCBKPWBWCF68F, ZYKWSUFJUZOWFN7I, 5SVQZUPVICYYJ97B, LKT9TNU9HS4SHMJI, 01BUYQBNLDJ0RNVO, RWEA4KHO0KW9LCJJ, OHAL0EHHVDK3FE3G, K90K8BIXANLLANXX, NVIISYRAO3YHFNW4, HMBP8UBMZTIBTC4N, AXERTSZB30CEBXK8, KYMHQ1FZNRFD8TWE, GUZYZOBIW3JZG0L2, TMQXS2ZKREPUMFCE, DYOWELKXVWSWILOJ, ​​8FMMFOFSACFOIPDW, L0KWV7DGSYMIRI2D

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