Juan Fernández

[wahn fer-nan-dez, joo-uh n; Spanish hwahn fer-nahn-des]

noun

a group of three islands in the S Pacific, 400 miles (645 km) W of and belonging to Chile: Alexander Selkirk, the alleged prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was marooned here 1704.

Fernandez

[fer-nan-dez, fer-; Spanish fer-nahn-deth, -des]

noun

Juan

[hwahn, wahn; Spanish hwahn] /ʰwɑn, wɑn; Spanish ʰwɑn/, 1536?–1602?, Spanish navigator: explorer in South America and the Pacific.