The Island Map

There are some older, fairly extensive posts about the content of the blast door map, but most of those posts were made before many of you started following this project. Since it has come up in the answers to several recent questions, let’s revisit Radzinsky and Inman’s contribution to Island cartography.

For the purposes of this project, the locations on the blast door map fall into three categories: confirmed, confident, and incorrect. This image is a simplified version of the map which contains only the most pertinent information regarding locations.

Confirmed locations are green. The places are either marked as “confirmed” on the map itself or (in the case of the Pearl) were later confirmed by the producers. For these locations, the Island Map deviates as little as possible from the blast door map, even though evidence from later seasons (like the fate of the Black Rock) can be somewhat contradictory.

Confident locations are orange. They aren’t marked as “confirmed,” but they are all well-known and long-standing DHARMA facilities. Radzinsky would have ben well-aware of these locations, and confident of the positions of the notations on his map. Again, the Island Map attempts to deviate as little as possible from the general positions of these locations.

Incorrect locations are red. These notations were marked as “alleged” or “possible” locations on the blast door map. We know that these places do exist on The Island, however, their locations are eventually shown to be very different than they appear on the blast door. It seems likely that Radzinsky would have known the accurate locations for most of these facilities, but we know that he eventually committed suicide and Kelvin Inman later finished the map. The most logical assumption is that these notations were added by Kelvin, who was not as sure about their locations. For these places, evidence from elsewhere in the show is used to determine their locations.