castaway A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore. While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a desert island, either to evade kidnapping, captors or the world in general. A person may also be ...

is a person cast adrift or ashore. Castaway or Cast Away may also refer to:

Businesses

Castaways (casino) The Castaways was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It began in the 1930s, as a small motel called Mountain View. It became the San Souci in 1939, and underwent several ownership changes in its early years. A hotel ...

, a former Las Vegas, Nevada hotel *

Castaway Cay Disney's Castaway Cay, or simply Castaway Cay (), is a private island in the Bahamas which serves as an exclusive port for the Disney Cruise Line ships. It is located near Great Abaco Island and was formerly known as Gorda Cay. In 1997, The Walt ...

, a private island operated by the Walt Disney Company * Castaway Entertainment, a software company *

Castaway Island Castaway Island (or Qalito) is an island of the Mamanuca Group in Fiji. It is inhabited, with a tourist resort on its west side. The island has an area of . Access Castaway Island is located about offshore from Nadi International Airport Na ...

, a tourist resort in the Mamanuca Island group in Fiji *

Castaways Hotel and Casino The Showboat Hotel and Casino, known as the Castaways Hotel and Casino from 2000-2004, was a hotel and casino located at the north end of the Boulder Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. The hotel consisted of a 19 story tower containing 445 rooms, a ...

, a former Las Vegas hotel and casino

Film and TV

* ''The Castaways'' (film), a 1910 American silent film *''

Cast Away ''Cast Away'' is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on a desert island after his plane cras ...

'', a 2000 film starring Tom Hanks * ''Castaway'' (film), a 1986 film starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed, adapted from the Lucy Irvine memoir *''

Castaway 2000 ''Castaway 2000'' is a reality television programme broadcast on BBC One throughout 2000. The programme followed a group of thirty-six men, women, and children who were tasked with building a community on the Scottish island of Taransay, off th ...

'', a BBC series *''

Castaway 2007 ''Castaway 2007'' is a follow-up to the BBC series ''Castaway 2000'' in which a group of people from the British public are "castaway" on a remote island. While in the 2000 series 36 men, women and children moved to a remote Scottish island for ...

'', a BBC series *''Castaways'', a 1978 historical drama series featuring

Annie Whittle Annie Whittle is a British-born New Zealand singer and actress who has appeared on such shows as ''Shortland Street'', where she played Barbara Heywood for four years and has had a singing career that has spanned three decades. She was previousl ...

* ''Castaway'' (TV series), a 2011 Australian television series * ''Castaways'' (TV series), an American reality television series produced by ABC * ''The Castaway'' (film), a 1931 Mickey Mouse animated short * ''The Castaways'' (Australian TV series), a 1974 Australian television series * ''The Castaways'' (British TV series), a 2023 British television series

Literature

* "The Castaways" (short story), P.G. Wodehouse * ''Castaway'' (book), a 1984 memoir by Lucy Irvine *''The Castaway'', Hallie Erminie Rives's 1904 novel that was the subject of ''

Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus ''Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus'', 210 U.S. 339 (1908), was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the scope of rights accorded owners of a copyright versus owners of a particular copy of a copyrighted work. This was a case of first imp ...

'', a landmark US copyright case * "The Castaway" (poem), a 1799 poem/ballad by William Cowper

Music

The Castaways (band) The Castaways are an American rock band from the Twin Cities in Minnesota, United States. They were formed in 1963. The band's only hit single was " Liar, Liar". Written by keyboardist and band leader Jim Donna and drummer (and band co-founde ...

, an American garage rock band * ''Cast Away'' (album), a 2004 album by Visions of Atlantis *''Cast Away'', a 2013 album by

Strange Talk Strange Talk is an Australian synthpop duo from Melbourne, Victoria, consisting of Gerard Sidhu and Stephen Docker. Formed in 2010, their sound has been likened to that of Cut Copy, Passion Pit, Phoenix and Yeasayer. Strange Talk's most recen ...

* "Castaway" (Zac Brown Band song), from ''Jekyll + Hyde'' * "Castaway" (Mi-Sex song), a 1982 song by Mi-Sex *"Castaway", a song by 5 Seconds of Summer from ''

Sounds Good Feels Good ''Sounds Good Feels Good'' is the second studio album by Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer. It was released on 23 October 2015 through the labels Hi or Hey and Capitol Records. In support of the album, the band embarked on the Sounds ...

'' *"Castaway", a song by Benny Benassi from '' ...Phobia'' *"Castaway", a song by Dog Fashion Disco from ''

Committed to a Bright Future ''Committed to a Bright Future'' is the fifth studio album by American metal band Dog Fashion Disco, released in 2003. Music videos were made for the songs "The Acid Memoirs","Grease (song), Grease" and "Love Song for a Witch". Track listing ...

'' *"Castaway", a song by Green Day from '' Warning'' *"Castaway", a song by Jerry Cantrell from ''

Degradation Trip ''Degradation Trip'' is the second solo album by Alice in Chains guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell, released on June 18, 2002. It marks his difficult transition from Columbia Records to Roadrunner, and was dedicated to Alice in Chains lead si ...

'' *"Castaway", a song by Mike Oldfield from ''

Man on the Rocks ''Man on the Rocks'' is the twenty-fifth studio album by British musician Mike Oldfield, released on 3 March 2014 on the Virgin EMI label. The album is Oldfield's second full album of exclusively songs with no long or instrumental pieces, the f ...

'' *"Castaway", a song by Of Mice & Men from ''

Tether A tether is a cord, fixture, or flexible attachment that characteristically anchors something movable to something fixed; it also may be used to connect two movable objects, such as an item being towed by its tow. Applications for tethers incl ...

'' *"Castaway", a song by Paul Van Dyk from '' In Between'' *"Castaway", a song by Starkill from ''

Gravity In physics, gravity (), also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, a mutual attraction between all massive particles. On Earth, gravity takes a slightly different meaning: the observed force b ...

'' *"Castaway", a song by Yuna from '' Rouge'' *"Castaway", a song from ''

In Search of the Castaways ''In Search of the Castaways'' () is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–68. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains illustrations by Édouard Riou. In 1876, it was republished by George Routledge & Son ...

'' * "Castaways" (song), a song from the children's show ''The Backyardigans'' which became a popular meme song *"The Castaway", a song by Amorphis from ''

Tales from the Thousand Lakes ''Tales from the Thousand Lakes'' is the second studio album by Finnish progressive metal band Amorphis. It is a concept album based on the Finnish national epic, ''Kalevala''. The album was an influential release in the development of the m ...

'' *"The Castaway", a song by The Autumn Offering from '' Fear Will Cast No Shadow'' *''Castaway'', an opera by

Lennox Berkeley Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley CBE (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer. Biography Berkeley was born on 12 May 1903 in Oxford, England, the younger child and only son of Aline Carla (1863–1935), daughter of Sir James ...

Other uses

Castaways' Club The Castaways' Club is a dining club for retired Officer Corps of the Royal Navy, warfare officers (previously known as executive or seaman officers) of the Royal Navy who left the service while still junior officers, typically with the rank of Li ...

, a club for Royal Navy officers who left the service whilst still young

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Film and TV

Literature

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