The Five Deaths
- 'Isla Muerta' has several different meanings.
The Five Deaths (Las Cinco Muertes in Spanish) are a fictional group of five islands featured prominently in the Jurassic Park series of films and books. According to the literature, the islands lie approximately 200 miles South-West of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
The islands are each several miles apart and part of an old volcanic chain.
They are named Isla Mataceros, Isla Muerta, Isla Pena, Isla Sorna and Isla Tacaño.
The explanation for the fictional islands' names are that they were named after an old Indian legend about a brave warrior captured by a king who offered him five choices of deaths: burning, drowning, crushing, hanging, or decapitation. The warrior said he would take them all, and he went from island to island, experiencing the various challenges.
Isla Nublar is a separate island 87 miles northwest.
There are some differences between the novel and the movie; according to the book, Isla Sorna is to the north of the other islands, but in the movie, it is located in the center of the island chain. Also, the island chain seems to be just 10 miles off of the bay of Puerto Cortes, a small village near the south of Costa Rica. If this were true the islands would be arcing upward, instead of downward. Isla Sorna is also much smaller and different shaped than in the movie.
| Jurassic Park franchise | |
|---|---|
| Novels | Jurassic Park · The Lost World |
| Films | Jurassic Park · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · Jurassic Park III · Jurassic Park IV (in development) |
| Settings | Isla Nublar · Jurassic Park Visitors Center · The Five Deaths · Isla Sorna |
| Various | Characters · Inaccuracies · Parodies · InGen · Biosyn · Video games · Dominican amber · Dragon curve · Michael Crichton · Steven Spielberg · Joe Johnston |
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