It’s been almost 8 years since the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN franchise first started, and in that time, Captain Jack Sparrow and company have taken us to the ends of the world and back. Here’s a look at where they’ve been and where they’ll be going tonight when PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES opens in theatres!
PORT ROYAL, JAMAICA
Kicking things off in 2003, THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL introduced us to Will Turner, Captain Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann, who is kidnapped by Captain Barbossa and his crew aboard the Black Pearl.
TORTUGA, HAITI
In an attempt to rescue Elizabeth, Will and Jack travel to Tortuga to put together a crew. A stolen ship and a cast of colourful crew members later, they set sail for Isla de Muerta, where Sparrow is convinced Barbossa will take Elizabeth to break the Aztec curse that turns them into skeletons in the moonlight.
ISLA DE MUERTA (*Fictional Location)
When they reach Isla de Muerta, Will suspects that Sparrow will betray him and knocks him out. Meanwhile, Barbossa discovers that Elizabeth isn’t Bootstrap Bill’s daughter and therefore can’t help him break the curse. Luckily, Will rescues Elizabeth from Barbossa, but both are captured along with the rest of the crew assembled from Tortuga.
BLACK SAM’S SPIT/RUMRUNNER’S ISLE (*Fictional Location)
Will, Bootstrap Bill’s real son and the key to breaking the curse, attempts to negotiate Elizabeth’s and the crew’s freedom, but instead is taken prisoner by Barbossa and brought back to Isla de Muerta. Barbossa then maroons Elizabeth and Sparrow on a remote island, which turns out to be where rum runners once hid their rum.
PELEGOSTO (*Fictional Location)
In DEAD MAN’S CHEST, Will is forced by Lord Cutler Beckett to find Jack Sparrow in order to get Sparrow’s compass. Only his compass has the special ability to point in the direction of the thing that the possessor wants most. Jack eventually finds Sparrow on the island of Pelegosto, where a tribe of cannibals is preparing to eat him.
PANTANO RIVER (*Fictional Location)
Once Will, Sparrow and Sparrow’s remaining crew escape the cannibals, they go in search of Tia Dalma, a voodoo priestess who lives in a bayou on the other side of Pelegosto. She tells them that the key Jack Sparrow seeks, which unlocks the Dead Man’s Chest, is in the possession of Davy Jones.
TORTUGA, HAITI
After Will is captured by Davy Jones, Jack and his crew make a stop here, where they are joined by ex-Commodore James Norrington and Elizabeth, who has been sent by Beckett to bargain for Jack’s compass. Jack and his first mate conclude that Beckett wants the compass to find the Dead Man’s Chest, which holds Davy Jones’s heart.
ISLA CRUCES (*Fictional Location)
Jack, his crew, Elizabeth and Norrington discover the chest buried on this island.
SINGAPORE
AT WORLD’S END begins with Will, Elizabeth, Barbossa and the Black Pearl crew in search of a way to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones’s Locker. The map that can lead them there is located here in Sao Feng’s possession.
DAVY JONES’S LOCKER (*Fictional Location)
In order to rescue Sparrow, Will, Elizabeth, Barbossa and the crew must sail off the edge of the world and into Davy Jone’s Locker, a purgatory for lost souls.
SHIPWRECK COVE (*Fictional Location)
The nine Pirate Lords gather in this well-protected cove in Shipwreck Island to decide whether or not to free Calypso and whether they should declare war.