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Peter Warner, Seafarer Who Discovered Shipwrecked Boys, Dies at 90
That story, which has sometimes been called a real-life “Lord of the Flies,” was just one episode in a life filled with adventure.
The sailor Peter Warner, third from left, in 1968 with members of his crew, which included the six Tongan teenagers he had rescued from an island in the South Pacific two years earlier.Credit.John Raymond Elliott/Fairfax Media, via Getty Images
April 22, 2021, 1:18 p.m. ET
Peter Warner, an Australian seafarer whose already eventful life was made even more so in 1966 when he and his crew discovered six shipwrecked boys who had been living on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific for 15 months, died on April 13 in Ballina, New South Wales. He was 90. ....

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