# Gilligan's Island--Map? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285 "2014-07-28T23:37:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/1 "2014-07-28T23:37:43Z")
Did any fan ever try to create a consistent map of Gilligan’s Island? One that allows for all the locations that the weird things that happened at? ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/2 "2014-07-29T00:34:31Z")
A Google search [turns up these,](https://www.google.com/search?q=map+of+gilligan's+island&biw=1414&bih=738&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=rOrWU4S7AY6XyATprYFo&ved=0CBwQsAQ#q=map+of+TV%27s+gilligan%27s+island&tbm=isch) non of which are particularly impressive. The problem is that like most ‘high-concept’ 60s sitcoms the writers had no obligation nor motivation for consistancy whatsoever! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/3 "2014-07-29T01:04:19Z")
How about a fan-generated map? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/4 "2014-07-29T01:25:51Z")
There were a couple of maps shown in episodes but they contradicted each other. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/5 "2014-07-29T01:32:54Z")
Maybe you can get Spanish artist (and interior decorator) [Ifaki Lizarrald](https://www.etsy.com/people/nikneuk) to make a map for you. Or maybe just the inside of the huts. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/6 "2014-07-29T01:54:15Z")
The picture isn’t the easiest to see the details but [this](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiked/2755459688/in/photostream/) one is pretty good. I remember seeing a book many years ago that had blue prints of many 60s and 70s shows sets as if they were real and I am pretty sure one of them was the Island in GI and this was it but I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/7 "2014-07-29T13:09:01Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > The picture isn’t the easiest to see the details but [this](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiked/2755459688/in/photostream/) one is pretty good. I remember seeing a book many years ago that had blue prints of many 60s and 70s shows sets as if they were real and I am pretty sure one of them was the Island in GI and this was it but I could be wrong. Wait a minute, are those the huts around the common area? No way the island is that small! There was a friggin’ **volcano** on the island! ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/8 "2014-07-29T13:54:53Z")
I know, right? and whenever they talked about something being “on the other side of the island” it sounded like it was a major expedition to get there. anyone else like to say the word “lagoon”? such a lovely word LA GOOOOOOON :o ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/9 "2014-07-29T20:17:43Z")
And yet what Gilligan’s Island had was not a [lagoon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagoon); it was more like a bay or cove. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/10 "2014-07-29T20:31:34Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Wait a minute, are those the huts around the common area? No way the island is that small! There was a friggin’ **volcano** on the island! And yet strangely uncharted. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/11 "2014-07-29T22:17:37Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > And yet what Gilligan’s Island had was not a [lagoon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagoon); it was more like a bay or cove. what? that can’t be right. nobody wants to meet down at the\* cove.\* :mad: I ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/12 "2014-07-30T03:39:48Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > And yet what Gilligan’s Island had was not a [lagoon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagoon); it was more like a bay or cove. I think it’s well established that whatever the Professor was a professor of, it wasn’t geography. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/13 "2014-07-30T12:14:37Z")
Not to be a party-pooper but just a quick reality check: We are talking about a show that in one episode had a gorilla throw a Frisbee-like device into the ocean that turned out to be an atomic bomb! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/14 "2014-07-30T18:20:43Z")
But all islands have gorillas. Everyone knows that. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/15 "2014-07-30T18:29:37Z")
I’m just surprised that Gilligan et al never bumped into the folks from the Dharma Initiative. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/16 "2014-07-31T00:43:48Z")
so I’m watching The Sixties on CNN, the episode on the space race. They show a clip from GI. In the episode where the Russian(?) space craft flies over the island. The castaways made a giant SOS. Of course Gilligan kicks it changing an S into an L. The astronauts(cosmonauts) think it is Sol, one of their names. But when looking down it shows the outline of the island. I don’t have the talent to find or link it but someone could from either the GI episode or The Sixties episode. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/17 "2014-07-31T11:05:51Z")
[Here you go.](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140720031637/gilligan5935/images/thumb/9/98/SOL.png/300px-SOL.png) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/18 "2014-07-31T12:07:45Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Here you go.](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140720031637/gilligan5935/images/thumb/9/98/SOL.png/300px-SOL.png) [But there’s also this](http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111222223144/gilligan5935/images/e/e8/Isl-map_Epi-FwdMrch.jpg). I’m sure none of this was ever written with the assumption that two parts of the show would ever be called into question as contradictory. Either way, I’d say that [this](http://www.gilligansisle.com/islnd.gif) is probably the closest representation to what it looks like. Although, your image makes more sense with the amount of references they make to ‘the other side of the island’ ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/19 "2014-07-31T14:08:35Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > so I’m watching The Sixties on CNN, the episode on the space race. They show a clip from GI. In the episode where the Russian(?) space craft flies over the island. The castaways made a giant SOS. Of course Gilligan kicks it changing an S into an L. The astronauts(cosmonauts) think it is Sol, one of their names. But when looking down it shows the outline of the island. > > I don’t have the talent to find or link it but someone could from either the GI episode or The Sixties episode. Two different episodes: The cosmonauts were the ones who landed on the island; the island was overflown by a Gemini mission. My headcanon of the island is that one side of the island is taken up by a volcanic peak with steep cliffs at the ocean and numerous caves. The castaways side is mostly flat and includes the “lagoon”. ETA: of course, reconciling any of this with the on-location footage featured in the B&W first season is probably impossible. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285/20 "2014-07-31T14:56:58Z")
It’s a Schroedinger’s Island. Every night they go to sleep. Every morning when they wake up, the island is different. In size, in topology, in features, in location. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-map/694285.md?page=2)