Expeditie Robinson is a popular reality television

Reality television

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 program in the Netherlands and Belgium

Belgium

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, that debuted in 2000. It was the second production worldwide of a format that was developed in the UK, a format that has since then also been produced in many other countries, most notable under the title Survivor

Survivor (TV series)

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The name of the show alludes to Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

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Format

In most seasons, sixteen contestants are put into a survival situation and compete in a variety of physical challenges. Early in each season, two teams compete, but later the teams are merged and the competitions become individual ("samensmelting"). At the end of each show, one contestant is eliminated from the show by the others in a secret "Island Council" ballot.

Seasons

Season	Final Island		Final			Number of contestants
			Robinson	Runner-up
2000 Details Expeditie Robinson 2000 Expeditie Robinson: 2000, was the first Dutch/Belgian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. This season began airing on September 15, 2000 and concluded on December 18, 2000. This season saw the first ever pan regional version of...	Malaysia Seribuat Mersing Mersing is a town in Mersing District in the northeast corner of the state of Johor, Malaysia.Mersing town is a lively tourist town visited by Malaysians and foreign tourists....		Netherlands Karin Lindenhovius	Belgium Eva Willems		16
2001 Details Expeditie Robinson 2001 Expeditie Robinson: 2001, was the second Dutch/Belgian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. This season began airing on September 22, 2001 and concluded on December 25, 2001. The two original tribes this year were Lima and Simbang ...	Malaysia Simbang		Belgium Richard Mackowiak	Belgium Pascale Mertens		16
2002 Details Expeditie Robinson 2002 Expeditie Robinson: 2002, was the third Dutch/Belgian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. This season began airing on September 15, 2002 and concluded on December 18, 2002...	Malaysia Kador		Netherlands Derek Blok	Belgium Olivier Glorieux		16
2003 Details Expeditie Robinson 2003 Expeditie Robinson: 2003, was the fourth Dutch/Belgian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. This season began airing on September 13, 2003 and concluded on December 6, 2003...	Indonesia Kelapa		Belgium Jutta Borms	Netherlands Judge Chambliss		16
2004 Details Expeditie Robinson 2004 Expeditie Robinson: 2004, was the fifth Dutch/Belgian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. This season began airing on September 5, 2004 and concluded on November 28, 2004...	Malaysia Seribuat Mersing Mersing is a town in Mersing District in the northeast corner of the state of Johor, Malaysia.Mersing town is a lively tourist town visited by Malaysians and foreign tourists....		Belgium Frank de Meulder	Belgium Matthias Verscheure		18
2005 Details Expeditie Robinson 2005 Expeditie Robinson: 2005, was the sixth Dutch/Belgian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. This season began airing on September 5, 2005 and concluded on November 28, 2005. The major twist this season was that the tribes were initially...	Malaysia Mensirip Pulau Mensirip Pulau Mensirip is an island off the east coast of Johor, Malaysia....		Belgium Marnix Allegaert	Belgium Emma Van Den Bossche		18
2006 All-Stars Expeditie Robinson: Battle of the Titans Expeditie Robinson: Strijd der Titanen , was a special All-Stars season of the Dutch/Belgian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. This season began airing in March 2006 and concluded in July of that year...	Philippines Panga		Netherlands Ryan van Esch	Netherlands Jennifer Smit		17
2006 Details Expeditie Robinson 2006 Expeditie Robinson: 2006, was the eighth Dutch/Belgian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. This season began airing on August 28, 2006 and concluded on November 20, 2006. The major twist this season was that the tribes were initially...	Panama Isla Monte Pearl Islands The Pearl Islands are a group of 100 or more islands lying about off the Pacific coast of Panama in the Gulf of Panama.- Islands :...		Netherlands Olga Urashova	Belgium Lenny Janssen		16
2007 Details Expeditie Robinson 2007 Expeditie Robinson: 2007, was the eighth Dutch/Belgian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. This season began airing on September 30, 2007 and concluded on December 27, 2007...	Malaysia Tengah Pulau Tengah Tengah Island is an uninhabited island. It lies nine nautical miles off the coast of Mersing on the South China Sea off the east coast of Johor, Malaysia. It is 45 minutes away by boat from Mersing....		Belgium Vinncent Arrendell	Netherlands Willem Hogeveen		100
2008 Details Expeditie Robinson 2008 Expeditie Robinson 2008 is the tenth season of the RTL5 and 2BE reality television seriesExpeditie Robinson.The show premiered on August 31, 2008.On October 11, 2008 host Ernst-Paul Hasselbach died in an accident with his car in Lom, Norway....	Malaysia Lima		Belgium Yin Oei Sian	Netherlands Hans Meenhorst		16
2009 Details Expeditie Robinson 2009 Expeditie Robinson 2009 is the eleventh season of the RTL5 and 2BE reality television series Expeditie Robinson scheduled to be first aired on September 3, 2009. Its the first season hosted by Evi Hanssen and Eddy Zoëy, since Ernst-Paul Hasselbach's death in October 2008.This season started off...	Malaysia Malaysia		Belgium Marcel Vandezande	Netherlands Rita Berger		21
2010 Details Expeditie Robinson 2010 Expeditie Robinson 2010 was the twelfth season of the RTL5 and 2BE reality television series Expeditie Robinson first aired on September 2, 2010. It was the second season hosted by Evi Hanssen and Eddy Zoëy.This season included celebrities only....	Malaysia Malaysia		Netherlands Regina Romeijn	Belgium Tatiana Silva Tatiana Silva Tatiana Silva Braga Tavares was Miss Belgium in 2005. She entered the pageant as Miss Brussels and represented Belgium at the Miss World contest in December 2005.She was born in the Brussels suburb of Uccle...		17
2011 Details Expeditie Robinson 2011 Expeditie Robinson 2011 is the thirteenth season of the RTL5 and 2BE reality television series Expeditie Robinson first aired on September 1, 2011...	Philippines Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...		Belgium Tanja Dexters Tanja Dexters Tanja Dexters was crowned Miss Belgium 1998 and represented her country at Miss Universe 1999 and Miss World 1998....	Netherlands Sascha Visser  Belgium Niko Van Driessche		16

Ernst Paul Hasselbach

The original presenter of Expeditie Robinson, Ernst Paul Hasselbach, died in 2008 in a car crash in Norway. He was there to make shoots for a new television program, named '71 graden Noord', a spin-off of Expeditie Robinson.

External links

• Official website Expeditie Robinson at RTL5
• Official website Expeditie Robinson at 2BE
• Blog Expeditie Robinson (Dutch)