List of locations in Pirates of the Caribbean
This is a complete list of islands and other locations in the Pirates of the Caribbean films series. Some locations in the series of films are real, others are fictional.
Davy Jones' Locker
Davy Jones' Locker is a fictional place mentioned in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest by Will Turner's father, Bootstrap Bill. It is a purgatory where those indentured to Davy Jones serve out their debt.
There are two known ways to enter the Locker. The Kraken, a giant sea monster, drags sailors and their ship to the ocean depths, eventually entering into the Locker. Another entry, described by Tia Dalma, is to sail to World's End.
The Locker appears as a seemingly endless desert, connected with an equally endless sea. Strange creatures appear, such as the crabs that carried the stranded Black Pearl to the shore. The endless sea, known as the Sea of Lost Souls, is filled with those who were lost at sea. They were unable to reach the afterlife, forsaken by Captain Davy Jones, whose duty was to ferry them to the "other side."
Returning to the living world required the aid of Sao Feng's navigational chart. The chart contains confusing and cryptic clues, making it difficult to understand. Jack uses reverse logic to solve the riddle, allowing the ship and crew to reenter the living world.
Isla Cruces
Isla Cruces is a fictional island in the 2006 film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The relevant scenes were actually filmed in Dominica.
In Dead Man's Chest, Isla Cruces (Crosses Island) is an island where Davy Jones buried his chest containing his beating heart. The island appears to have been abandoned. The previous occupants are unknown, but the partially-remaining stone buildings indicate some European-type colony (probably Spanish) was once established here. A church ruin provides the backdrop for a fight between Jack Sparrow, James Norrington, and Will Turner.
Why Davy Jones buried the Dead Man's Chest on Isla Cruces is not revealed in the film. However, the film's writers, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, imply in the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest DVD audio commentary, that Jones chose it because it is a plague island that remains deserted.
Isla de Muerta
Isla de Muerta is an island featured in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. It is a mysterious isle where the Black Pearl's pirate crew hide their looted treasure. Its name's literal translation should actually be "Island of Dead" or "Dead Island", although the correct wording in Spanish would be "Isla Muerta" or "Isla de la Muerte". It is based on one of the five islands making up the "The Five Deaths" archipelago. They are based on an old Central American legend. A man is offered five ways to die by a king he has offended. The man chooses all five ways. He travels to each island and defeats each deadly challenge. The man is then rewarded. The five islands are named for the ways offered to die. Isla Muerta is the final island, where any type of death can be chosen. Another of the Five Deaths, Isla Sorna, features prominently in the Jurassic Park books and films.
The Curse of the Black Pearl
According to Jack Sparrow, Isla Muerta is, "an isle of the dead which [sic] cannot be found, except for those who already know where it is." To locate it, Captain Sparrow uses his unique compass — rather than pointing north, it points to what its holder wants most. What Sparrow wants is the Black Pearl, anchored at the island.
The isle is blanketed in thick fog and surrounded by a graveyard of sunken ships; its waters swarm with hammerhead sharks and shoals of fish. It appears to be largely unexplored, save for a maze of caves where Captain Hector Barbossa's crew hoards of looted treasure. Here is where the dreaded Chest of Cortez containing the cursed Aztec gold is kept.
Captain Barbossa tells Elizabeth Swann that 882 solid gold coins were placed in a stone chest and given to Cortés by the Aztecs. "Blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies. But the greed of Cortés' was insatiable. So the heathen gods placed upon the gold a terrible curse. Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity."
Any person who takes even a single coin from the chest is granted immortality, but for a terrible price. They may walk the earth forever and take anything they want, but hunger, food, discomfort, and lust will never be satisfied until every piece of gold anointed with each thief's blood is returned to the chest and the curse is lifted.
To lift the curse, the pirates must find the last medallion before gathering on Isla de Muerta to return it to the chest, along with blood from Bootstrap Bill Turner's kin. The island becomes the site of a climatic battle between the undead pirates and the navy, as well as the final duel between Barbossa and Jack Sparrow. Barbossa is killed, and his body is left amongst the pirates' swag. Once the undead priates are brought back to life, they either die in battle or are arrested. Two, Pintel and Ragetti, later rejoin Captain Sparrow's crew.
Dead Man's Chest
In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, it's learned that the island and its treasure were reclaimed by the sea. Barbossa's corpse was presumably not sunk, however, as Tia Dalma was able to restore him to life before the events of Dead Man's Chest.
Pelegosto
Pelegosto is a fictional island in the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The relevant scenes were actually filmed on Dominica.
In Dead Man's Chest, Bootstrap Bill Turner, acting as an agent for Davy Jones, delivers the Black Spot to Captain Jack Sparrow, a mark his blood debt to Jones is due. To hide from the Kraken, Jack commands the Black Pearl to land on Pelegosto, the nearest island. Pelegosto is a typical Caribbean island with sandy beaches and thick, hilly jungles, but it is inhabited by cannibals.
According the the film's writers in the Dead Man's Chest DVD commentary, Pelegosto is the same island Jack told Royal Navy Marines, Mullroy and Murtogg about in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He tells them, " . . . and then they made me their chief . . ." before being interrupted by Elizabeth Swann falling into the water.
Shipwreck Island
Shipwreck Island is a fictional island in the 2007 film, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. It is unique in that it is an island composed of shipwrecks.
In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Shipwreck Cove, the meeting place for the Brethren Court, is nestled in Shipwreck Island and is also the location of Shipwreck City. To enter Shipwreck Cove, every ship must pass through the Devil's Throat, which claims several vessels each year (according to the Essential Guide to Pirates of the Caribbean). Shipwreck Cove is considered to be an impregnable fortress, well-supplied, and able to withstand nearly any siege.
Singapore
The mysterious city is filled with bridge-covered waterways and crudely constructed wooden buildings. It appears in At World's End when Hector Barbossa and Elizabeth Swann visit Sao Feng to request navigational charts, a crew, and a ship to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker. The city is last shown as Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, and the crew set sail in Feng's ship, the Hai Peng.
Singapore's presense in the film is somewhat anachronistic, as are many other elements in the Pirates trilogy. The city was actually founded in the 1800's; Pirates of the Caribbean is set in the mid-1700's.
Tortuga
Jack Sparrow and Will Turner, in hot pursuit of Captain Hector Barbossa, moor the stolen ship, the HMS Interceptor, in Tortuga. There they recruit a crew. Their conscripts included Joshamee Gibbs, Anamaria, Cotton, and Marty.
Tortuga also appears in Dead Man's Chest. Will goes there to hunt for Jack Sparrow, although he ultimately finds him on Pelegosto Island. A denizen told Will he saw a beached ship with black sails (the Black Pearl) there while on a trading route. Jack returns to Tortuga after escaping Pelegosto to enlist one hundred unsuspecting sailors to pay off his blood debt to Davy Jones. However, the crew prove useful during the final confrontation with the Kraken. Jack is also reunited with Elizabeth Swann and recruits the down-and-out James Norrington, who resigned his commission after losing his ship in a hurricane while pursuing the Black Pearl, although he first tries to shoot Sparrow.
At the conclusion of At World's End, Jack and Gibbs are stranded in Tortuga when Barbossa and the Black Pearl crew steal the ship-again.
Minor Locations
- Dead Kraken Island
Not the actual name, but rather an island with black sandy beaches on which the dead Kraken washed ashore in the third film, and where the Black Pearl crew is captured by the Sao Feng's warship, the "Empress."
- Parley Sandbar
Once again, not the actual name. Because Davy Jones can only step on land once every ten years, he and Lord Cutler Beckett meet with Elizabeth Swann and Captain Barbossa there (while Jones stands in a tub of water). There they swap Will Turner for Jack Sparrow, and Elizabeth vows to Becket to avenge her father's death. It is seen only in At World's End.
- Frozen Ocean
An ocean filled with ice bergs and glaciers that the Black Pearl crew must travel through on their quest to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker.
- Rum Runners Island
The island that Jack was marooned on and "made governor of" twice by Barbossa. It was a storage area for rum runners, but that business was put out, presumably by Norrington, long before Jack's second arrival.
- Run Aground Island
When a merchant ship ran aground here, the surviving crew was taken by Davy Jones and his crew. Unfortunately, Will Turner was among them, although he later escapes.
- Turkish Prison
A rocky island with an apparently inhumane prison built atop its spires. It once held a drawing of Davy Jones' key within its walls, until Jack Sparrow successfully recovered it.
Real Locations
- England (Only mentioned in the films.)
- Port Royal
- Singapore
- Tortuga
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