This is a list of islands and other locations appearing in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
Cuba Cuba is an island where Tia Dalma's shack is located, on wooden pylons in the swamps of the cypress forest along the Pantano River. While it is implied in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest the river and shack was located on Isla de Pelegostos, the exact location was never said onscreen nor revealed in related promotional materials,POTC2 Presskit including an accompanying book for the film, and the Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow series of books. Both the Pantano River and Tia Dalma's shack were said to be located in Cuba, according to the official Disney Pirates of the Caribbean films website and the video game Pirates of the Caribbean Online.
After escaping Isla de Pelegostos, Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and the crew of the Black Pearl seek out Tia Dalma, an obeah woman and mystic, and trades Barbossa's undead monkey for information about the key to the Dead Man's Chest, which contains the still-beating heart of Davy Jones. Upon learning that Jack has the Black Spot on his hand, Tia Dalma gives Jack a jar of dirt, which Dalma claims will protect Sparrow from Davy Jones, and uses crab claws to help Jack's crew find the Flying Dutchman. After Jack was taken to Davy Jones's Locker by the Kraken, his crew return to Dalma's shack. Dalma reveals that she has resurrected Barbossa, and they will lead a mission to rescue Jack.
In At World's End, Cuba can be seen with Florida drawn with "Ponce de León 1523" on the map to the Fountain of Youth.
Scenes on the Pantano River in Dead Man's Chest were filmed in the Indian River on Dominica, while the outside and inside of Tia Dalma's shack were filmed in Walt Disney Studios on Burbank. The Pantano River bayou set at Disney was also designed to match the actual location chosen in Dominica.
Davy Jones' Locker
Davy Jones' Locker is a fictional place first mentioned in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest before being featured prominently in At World's End. Based on a real superstition of the same name, Davy Jones' Locker is the euphemistic nautical idiom meaning "the bottom of the sea". The Locker is also a realm in the Land of the Dead, similar to purgatory.
When "Bootstrap" Bill Turner was talked of in The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pintel and Ragetti tell Will Turner that Bootstrap Bill was sent to the crushing oblivion of Davy Jones' Locker. In Dead Man's Chest, after Jack Sparrow is taken to the Locker by the Kraken, Calypso organizes a mission to rescue him from the Locker back to the land of the living.
In At World's End, Calypso is accompanied by Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner, and Hector Barbossa, among others. They reach the Locker by the use of magical charts leading to World's End. Sao Feng, one of the nine Pirate Lords, was the previous owner of these charts. After the crew reach the Locker, they find Jack and the Black Pearl stranded in the desert. Jack, unable to move the ship, has begun to hallucinate. The ship is transported to the ocean by many crabs under the control of Calypso. While on the ocean, the crew see the ghost of Governor Weatherby Swann, who has been murdered on the orders of Cutler Beckett. By deciphering the clues on Sao Feng's charts, Jack discovers the way to escape the Locker. At sunset, the crew capsizes the ship; this triggers a green flash and returns the Pearl to the world of the living, effectively reviving Jack.
The arid plain where the Black Pearl is beached was filmed at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The shore where the Pearl re-enters the ocean was filmed at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes in California.
Devil's Triangle The Devil's Triangle was a mysterious and mythical area in the Caribbean Sea. According to Javier Bardem, the Devil's Triangle existed hundreds of years before the Bermuda Triangle. While the British themselves believed the Triangle to be an old sailor's myth, the cartographers referred to the area as "Uncharted Waters" located west of the Windward Isles in the Lesser Antilles.
In a flashback sequence, pirate ships battled the Silent Mary, under the command of Captain Armando Salazar, a pirate hunter of the Spanish Royal Navy. Jack Sparrow, as a young pirate, tricked Salazar into entering the Devil's Triangle and thus had Salazar, along with his ship and crew, inadvertently turn undead into an undead crew of ghosts on a ghost ship.
Many years later, Henry Turner, the son of William Turner, is aboard a British Navy ship which sails into the Devil's Triangle despite Henry's pleas and comes across the Silent Mary. Henry, who was put in the brig his insobrdination for trying to prevent the ship from sailing into the Triangle, escapes the slaughter caused on deck by Salazar's crew, who slaughter all other sailors and leave Henry as the sole survivor so that he can deliver the message of Salazar's return to Jack Sparrow, as "dead men tell no tales". Jack later trades his compass for a drink, an act that destroys the Devil's Triangle and frees Salazar's undead crew to hunt down Jack to exact their revenge.
Isla Cruces Isla Cruces is a fictional tropical island introduced in Dead Man's Chest. It is the place where Davy Jones buried the eponymous 'Dead Man's Chest', which contains his beating heart; stabbing the heart is the only way to kill Jones.
The island appears to have been abandoned; the previous occupants are unknown, but there are crumbling buildings indicating that it was once inhabited. On the island, Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and James Norrington duel for control of the chest. Norrington escapes with the chest, and gives it to Cutler Beckett in exchange for a full pardon.
It is not revealed in the film why Davy Jones buried the Chest on Isla Cruces. 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.
The dilapidated church, graveyard, and mill were filmed in Vieille Case, Dominica. The beach where Norrington, Sparrow, and Turner's duel was filmed near Little Exuma in The Bahamas.
Isla de Muerta Isla de Muerta () is a mysterious island featured in The Curse of the Black Pearl where the titular Black Pearls pirate crew hide their looted treasure. It is revealed to be the location of the Aztec treasure that cursed Captain Barbossa and his crew to become undead.
According to Jack Sparrow, Isla de Muerta is an island that cannot be found, except by those who already know where it is hidden. From the air, the island resembles a human skull. Mysteriously shrouded in fog, the isle is surrounded by a graveyard of sunken ships; its waters swarm with hammerhead sharks and shoaling fish. The island contains a series of connected caves, which contain the crew's loot and the Chest of Cortes.
Before the events of the film, Barbossa becomes the captain of the Black Pearl by leading a mutiny against Jack Sparrow. Later, the crew finds Isla de Muerta and loots the Aztec treasure from the Chest of Cortes with no knowledge of the curse put it. By removing the golden medallions from the chest, the crew become undead and slowly lose the ability to feel physical pleasure. However, the pirates only realised this after they'd squandered away a significant portion of the medallions. In order to remove the curse, all the medallions had to be placed back in the chest along with the blood of all those who had become undead due to this curse. Due to Bill Turner being tied to a cannon and thrown overboard for not supporting Barbossa's mutiny, the blood of his son, William Turner was required to set them all free from the curse.
Barbossa, believing that Elizabeth Swann is the key to breaking his curse, kidnaps her and brings her to Isla de Muerta. Captain Sparrow uses his magical compass, which points to the thing the user wants most, to follow him. With the help of Will Turner, Elizabeth, and Jack fight against the pirates in the caves under the island. James Norrington and his men fight against Barbossa's crew in the bay just offshore. Using Will's blood, the curse is broken and Jack kills Barbossa.
In Dead Man's Chest, it's learned that the island was reclaimed by the sea, taking with it both the cursed Aztec treasure and the mountains of gold that Barbossa's crew had hoarded while they were cursed. It was with this gold that Jack Sparrow had agreed to pay his new crew.
Isla de Pelegostos Isla de Pelegostos, also known as Cannibal Island or Pelegosto Island, is a fictional Caribbean island.
In Dead Man's Chest, Bootstrap Bill, acting as Davy Jones's messenger, delivers the Black Spot to Captain Jack Sparrow, a mark indicating that his blood debt to Jones is due. To avoid the Kraken that is hunting him, guided by the Black Spot on his palm, Jack commands the crew of the Black Pearl to make landfall. They make port on Pelegosto, a tropical Caribbean island with huge cliffs and deep caves. It is inhabited by a cannibal tribe that captures the Pearls crew and imprisons them in 2 cages made from human bone, leaving both cages hanging over a cliff. Jack, who they believe to be a god in human form, is taken to be ceremoniously eaten to "release him from his fleshy prison." Will Turner arrives and helps them escape.
Scenes set on the island were filmed on Dominica. The Pelegosto tribe's main village was built south of the island's capital, Roseau. Other scenes were filmed in Morne Trois Pitons National Park.
London, England London, sometimes referred to as London Town, is the capital city of England in Great Britain that was mentioned in the first three films and first appears in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
The Curse of the Black Pearl opens with Governor Weatherby Swann, his daughter Elizabeth, James Norrington, and Joshamee Gibbs sailing from the crossing of England to the Caribbean, with the Swanns having previously been living in London. Will Turner also lived in England until he came looking for his father after his mother's death. Elizabeth was given a dress from London, which included a corset that caused her not to breathe, which led to the circumstances in which she is kidnapped by Captain Barbossa's crew aboard the Black Pearl.
In Dead Man's Chest, Lord Cutler Beckett has Letters of Marque, with which he attempts to employ Jack Sparrow as a privateer of England. After Governor Swann attempts to help Elizabeth escape through a passage to England, Beckett also blackmails Swann for his authority and influence in London, as well as his authority to the East India Trading Company.
In At World's End, Norrington thought Governor Swann returned to England, only for Elizabeth to reveal it was a lie that Beckett told to cover up his involvement in the governor's murder.
In On Stranger Tides, London makes a physical appearance within the first part of the film. Jack Sparrow rescues his first mate, Joshamee Gibbs, from execution in the Old Bailey, only to get captured at St. James's Palace. Prior to this, Gibbs tells Jack that there was a rumor of another Jack Sparrow in London recruiting a crew in a pub called the Captain's Daughter. King George, who also heard the rumor of Sparrow in London, only for the pirate to escape. The King's Royal Guards chase Jack through London's streets until the pirate escapes to find his impostor is Angelica, Jack's former lover and daughter of Blackbeard, who then shanghais Jack into service aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge. Meanwhile, at the Execution Dock at the Tower of London, Gibbs meets Barbossa, now a privateer sporting a peg leg and having lost the Black Pearl, who are then recruited aboard HMS Providence.
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