Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) would survive their castaway adventure for at least three weeks, but as McCullin later recounted, "because of our gathering weakness ... out of temper, and out of water, we hoisted the red flag and were taken off in the early hours of the fifteenth day". According to McCullin, there was nothing idyllic about the desert island: "The mosquitos and other insects were more venomous and persistent than any I had encountered in Vietnam or the Congo." Richard Branson's "Extreme Tech Challenge" has been hosted annually at Necker Island since 2015. Described as one of the largest technology competitions in the
Albertine Necker de Saussure women's sense of themselves. She wanted to change this. Albertine also wrote a biography of her friend Germaine de Staël for the first collected edition of de Staël's works, in 1821. In addition, Albertine authorized a French translation of August Wilhelm Schlegel's "Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur "(1809-1811). Albertine Necker de Saussure's work "l'Education Progressive" is acknowledged as an educational classic and was influential in nineteenth-century England. She was active in the Groupe de Coppet, a salon that flourished between the French Revolution and the early years of the Restoration,and she has been credited with spreading the spirit of