Das ist cool! John Cabrerra hat sich die Mühe gemacht die einzelnen Orte der LOST Insel einmal auf einer Karte zusammenzu……

This map’s shape was based on the map that Rousseau drew in season 1… the one that Sayid brought back with him to camp. But I used maps like Ben’s Temple map, Faraday’s island map, Ben’s radio tower map, and most importantly the Blast Door Map (because it is such an imaginative depiction of the Island) to give me hints to the general vicinity of things. Then I nudged things around a bit in order to work with the look of a subway map… and to create something that I thought looked nice.

The question of which way is north is a difficult one to answer on this show. We know that compasses behave strangely on the Island. Rousseau’s map has north pointing up as it would relate to this map. And we know from season 1 that the survivors are on the south part of the island. Ben’s radio tower map, however, puts the camp to the north and the radio tower to the east. Rousseau puts the radio tower to the west. Ben’s Temple map puts the Temple to the north west of the Barrack… which would seem to conflict with his Radio tower map because it would mean the beach camp was relatively close to the Temple. The distance that the others are traveling in season 3 is a several day trek… so the idea that the Temple is closer to the beach camp than the barracks just doesn’t work for me.

So I have to assume that both direction (N,S,E,W) as well as scale on these maps is all over the place. Couple that with the show’s inconsistent depiction of travel and topography and… well I’m sure you get what I mean.

And that lake you see in the Temple map could easily be a bay. We don’t know because it’s chopped off… but if it is, then it puts the temple close to the north of the Island.

The point I’m making is that to use any map on this show as a definitive guide to the map of the island is probably useless. My follow up post to this one, goes into a bit more detail about how I came up with the map.

From what we can see in that episode, we can deduce 3 things, here explained:

1. From A to B, better, from “Barracks” to the Temple there’s a straight and HORIZONTAL line

2. The Temple is in the middle of those mountais which stand along the Ovest coast’s island.

3. Going Norht, from the Temple, beyond those mountains, there’s a big lake

Have you seen the map I’m speaking about?
Did you consider it when draw your map?

I hope you’ll come back for my next post. I’m in the process of writing it now, so it’ll be up sometime tomorrow. It actually mentions a few of the theories you made on placement, why I chose not to put them there, as well as other possibilities for what the Island could look like.

So, with this in mind, it becomes obvious that the Pala Ferry dock exists also for return trips from The Hydra not even 3 miles away…..

It DOESN’T help that the producers have played fast and loose with regard to topography throughout the show’s previous 5 seasons; even in “The Incident”, Flocke is leading his party away from the original beach camp with the ocean on their LEFT side which, if we the audience remember the Statue was established as being on the Island’s western coast in “The Glass Ballerina”, must be impossible…..

Admirable (though still further question as to locational accuracy) execution otherwise…..

1. In season 1 and 3, the castaways make treks down the beach from the camp to the Looking Glass wire in the water. Wouldn’t they see the island off shore from that based on where you have the wire placed?

2. In season 5, notLocke and Ben leave from the Hydra Island and head directly across the water to the Dharma Dock where the sub used to be and where the Barracks are.

That’s my take. Good work

Yes, you’re right about the exact location of certain things being off. But as I mentioned, much of this was a compromise between design and what we know about the Island. For me, a big blob of lines spread evenly across the whole island just didn’t look nice as something more off balance. It also allows for the Temple to be placed far enough from the Barracks that the Others’ big trek there at the end of Season 3 seemed right. And I guess for me, gives all that empty space a mysterious feel.

I used pretty much every map they’ve shown us on the show, tried to calculate distances, direction of movement… but at the end of the day, so many things contradict one another that I had to focus more on making a map that just looked fun. I tried to adhere to at least one rule we’ve been shown. For example: The blast door map puts the Flame south west of the Pearl and puts the Staff north west. Both the Staff and the Pearl, which by that map should be further north than the Flame, are certainly within a moderate distance to the Swan, which is within a moderate distance to the beach. In fact, the Staff is supposedly about a half a day from the beach.

So is it that the terrain to get to the Flame makes it a slower trek? Is Radzinski wrong on his placement? Did he totally go crazy and can’t remember. OR… does the show sometimes have to change things up in order to fit the given circumstances of a particular episode (plot, a shoot location, weather, etc).

If I were you, I wouldn’t throw away the map you have in your head. I’ll be getting into this in an upcoming post, but if an official map is ever released, it will likely have big inconsistencies with what we’ve seen. Things like people walking in the wrong direction towards things, distances, terrain, etc.