Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner, in hot pursuit of Captain Hector Barbossa, moor their stolen ship, the H.M.S. While it remains a free port where traders can escape the high East India tariffs, it is a dangerous one where illegal transactions are common. Tortuga is a pirate island off the northern coast of Saint-Domingue (Haiti), out of the jurisdiction of the Royal Navy and the East India Trading Company. Barbossa himself was only retrieved due to the intervention of Tia Dalma, who did so and also restored him to life before the events of Dead Man’s Chest. It was this swag that Jack Sparrow had agreed to pay his new crew with, but had to change his plans when it sank with the island. In Pirates of the Caribbean: 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 uncursed mountains of swag that Barbossa’s crew had hoarded while they were cursed. Here is where the dreaded Chest of Cortez containing the cursed Aztec gold is kept.Īpart from the caves, there seems to be little that is interesting on the island, at least it is not shown, except the piles of horded treasure which the crew of the Black Pearl acquired during their many years of searching for the last cursed coin and the one remaining blood sacrifice. It appears to be largely unexplored, save for a maze of caves where Captain Barbossa’s crew hoard their looted treasure. Shrouded in a mysterious and everlasting fog, the isle is surrounded by a graveyard of sunken ships its waters swarm with hammerhead sharks and fish shoals.įrom the air, the island resembles the face of a human skull. What Sparrow wants is the Black Pearl that is anchored at the island. The Curse of the Black PearlĪccording to Jack Sparrow, Isla de Muerta is, literally translated from Spanish is “an isle of the dead which cannot be found, except by 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.

It is a mysterious isle where the Black Pearl’s pirate crew hide their looted treasure. Isla de Muerta is an island featured in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

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