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Originally Posted by OFxZeppers
Well the movie series has Singapore in it, as well as pirates from Singapore, and Jack mentions it repeatedly in his movie dialogue  Sooo... yeah geographically maybe, but then again... where are those spanish and french islands on the Caribbean map? |
HAHA, I had to do a lot of research on that one LOL.
As us history nuts know, during the time period the movie placed, which is the "golden age of piracy", there were major conflicts over the Caribbean Islands between the English, French, Dutch, and Spanish. I did some research, and the French island is made up, but Isla De La Avaricia was an actual Island near Spain and there was one in the Caribbean as well. Translated, Isla De La Avaricia, means "Island of the Avarice". Avarice technically was derived from latin and Spanish, meaning "crave", or "desire". It also happened to be a common Spanish name back then. The name of the island was probably changed in time as the French, Spanish, Dutch, and English continued to fight for more land. From my guess, the island was probably named after some wealthy landlord or a noble of some sort. So yeah, French Island was non-existent, the Spanish Island however was real at some point in time. After this, I checked the names of all the islands in the game to be sure they're real, and All are real except Padres Del Feugo*, and the French Island of course.
Another Off Topic: I think it would be actually really cool if you could get on a ship, sail off map, then come to another area with singapore and other asian islands on a completely different map. Like when you get to the point off the map where a notice comes up saying "You've sailed to worlds end, turn back and continue your voyage", instead of that, it could say "you're sailing beyond the Caribbean, would you like to continue to the Asian Islands?" I don't know, me and my crazy ideas. I think I had too much rum today
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I am not too sure about Padres, because the name could have been changed in time. As the 4 coutries fought for more land, they constantly changed the names of the islands, and someone didn't do good book keeping back then 
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