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'Lost' Island - Remote, mysterious island somewhere in the South Pacific featured on the supernatural/sci-fi adventure LOST/ABC/2004+. The 'Lost' Island is home to a group of 48 castaways who are the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 that crash-landed when an electromagnetic pulse coming from the island caused the plane's electrical systems to fail.

At the time, the 815 aircraft was 1000 miles off course from Sydney to Los Angeles. The flight had just made a course correction towards Fiji (six hours into the flight) when it began to crash towards the island.

The most prominent among the island survivors are Dr. Jack Shepherd (Matthew Fox), John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), Michael Dawson (Harold Perrineau), Walt Lloyd (Malcolm David Kelley), Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan), Shannon Rutherford (Maggie Grace), Claire Littleton (Emilie De Ravin), Ana Lucia Cortez (Michelle Rodriquez), Jin Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim), Sun Kwon (Junjin Kim), James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway),  Mr. Eko (Adawale Akinnuoye-Adbaje); Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) and a Labrador retriever dog named Vincent.

'Lost' Island Coastline

Remains of a Giant Statue

Other island residents are an enigmatic French woman named Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan) who appears from time to time to offer council and warning to the 815 survivors ("You've only got three choices: run, hide... or die."); a mystical boar; a wandering polar bear; the remains of a man and a woman (dubbed "Adam and Eve") found in a cave; a bearded young man living in an underground tunnel complex named Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) who holds the "key" to the island's failsafe system; and an eerie cloud of black smoke ("The Monster") that rocks the treetops and frightens the island inhabitants. A few of the inhabitants have had face-to-face encounters with this strange smoky entity, but the reason for its existence is still unknown. There is also the remnants of an old sailing ship called "The Black Rock" on the island whose cargo hold houses unstable sticks of dynamite.

The main threat to the 815 survivors, however, is a group of people called "The Others" who live on the other side of the island. They have targeted members of the Flight 815 crash by kidnapping or killing them. Who they are and what their true purpose is has yet to be discovered.

The Others thwarted the 815 passengers from leaving the island by attacking their raft and kidnapping a young black boy named Walt. The boy's father, Michael Dawson, frantic to save his son, later betrayed his fellow castaways to gain their own freedom from the island via a boat supplied by The Others.

Oceanic Flight 815 Crash site

Hidden among the island's landscape are hatches that lead to underground complex of tunnels. They connect to what appears to be an abandoned facility created by The Dharma Initiative (based on documents and films left behind). Housed within these areas are food supplies, and computer technology from the 1960s.

In one hatched area, ("The Swan Complex") there is a computer that needs to reset every 108 minutes. Initially, no one knew why, but it was later discovered that the reset prevented an overload of electromagnetic energy. It was one such overload that brought down Flight 815.

The Dharma Initiative facility seems to have been created as a psychological studies arena where people were given specific tasks to monitor various groups and then document their observations in black copybook like journals. When a journal was filled, it was sent via a pneumatic vacuum system to a main base for evaluation.

But the 815 survivors later discovered that all the journals traveled to the surface of the island only to be dumped into a large pile. Apparently, no one was ever meant to read the results.

Over time, the 815 survivors have nicknamed the island and its jungle with such phrases as  Haunted Damn Jungle, Heart of Darkness, Middle of Damn Nowhere, The Wild, The Magic Forest, Jungle of Mystery, Bloody Island, Craphole Island, Mystery Frickin' Island, This Rock, Mt. Vesuvius and, until they are rescued, "home sweet home."

815 Survivors Exploring the Island Jungle

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Excerpt from "Lost' Script

Locke:	[explaining why he wanted to let the island monster drag him off] I believe that I was being tested.
Jack:	Tested?
Locke:	Yeah, tested. I think... that's why you and I don't see eye-to-eye sometimes, Jack because you're a man of science.
Jack:	Yeah, and what does that make you?
Locke:	Me, well, I'm a man of faith. Do you really think all this...is an accident? That we, a group of strangers survived, many of us with just superficial injuries? Do you think we crashed on this place by coincidence, especially this place? We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason, all of us. Each one of us was brought here for a reason.
Jack:	Brought here? And who brought us here, John?
Locke:	The island. The island brought us here. This is no ordinary place, you've seen that, I know you have. But the island chose you, too, Jack. It's destiny.
Jack:	Did you talk with Boone about destiny, John?
Locke:	Boone was a sacrifice that the island demanded. What happened to him at that plane was a part of a chain of events that led us here that led us down a path, that led you and me to this day, to right now.
Jack:	And where does that path end, John?
Locke:	The path ends at the hatch. The hatch, Jack all of it. All of it happened so that we could open the hatch.
Jack:	No, no, we're opening the hatch so that we can survive.
Locke:	Survival is all relative, Jack.
Jack:	I don't believe in destiny.
Locke:	[pause] Yes, you do. You just don't know it yet.

TRIVIA NOTE: Location shots for the series were filmed along Oahu's famous North Shore. Jungle scenes were filmed in the Kaaawa Valley located some 30 miles away on the island's east coast. The Oceanic 815 plane wreckage scenes were filmed at Mokuleia Beach near Oahu's northwest tip (Kaena Point).

External Links

• Lost (IMDb)

• The Lost Notebook