Muertes Archipelago

The Five Deaths (Los Cinco Muertes in Spanish) is a chain of five islands 200 miles southwest of Costa Rica. They are named Isla Matanceros, Isla Muerta, Isla Pena, Isla Sorna and Isla Tacaño. The name comes from a Indian myth about a brave warrior facing five executions on each of the islands: burning, drawning, crushing, hanging and beheading. The islands were revealed in the sequel of the Jurassic Park film and novel.

It is unknown as to whether all five islands contain dinosaurs but it is implied by the boatman in The Lost World. In the novel, dinosaurs even reached the mainland and maybe reached as far as Rangiroa and Equador. In the game Jurassic Park: Survival there is an other island populated with dinosaurs.

The Lost World (novel)
The five islands are just a few of a group of at least twenty island. It are the names that distinct them from the others. The five islands had temples with colorful illustrations of the executions that took place on each island. The art was documented by German scientists in the book Die Fünf Todesarten.

The shapes and positions of the five islands is not shown in the book; only a map of Isla Sorna. Ian Malcolm says that the islands form a bow. They lay 15 kilometers from the mainland.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (video game)
The video game The Lost World: Jurassic Park shows a map of the Five Deaths. Because the shape of Isla Sorna is the same as it is in the novel, it might reflect the Five Deaths from the Novel canon. But the islands lay in an X-shaped position to each other, not the bow shape from the novel. The islands from top to bottom are: Isla Sorna, Isla Matanceros, Isla Tacaño, Isla Pena and Isla Muerta.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (film)
The shapes and positions of the islands are only seen when Kelly Curtis Malcolm sneaks into the trailer and sees a map on the wall. This time the islands form a bow, as stated in the novel. The islands from left to right are: Isla Matanceros, Isla Muerta, Isla Sorna, Isla Tacaño and Isla Pena. Dr. Dino, a JPLegacy.org member, created from this map a more detailed. Isla Nublar is placed halfway between the Five Deaths and the mainland.

Links

 * Costa Rica Regional Map