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THE LOST CONTINENT |
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First
appearance: The Lost Continent
Author/Creator: C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Media: Novel
Year: 1900
Located: A continent in the mid-Atlantic
Plot/Premise: In the last decadent
years of Atlantis the evil queen Phorenice is voracious
and cruel, and Deucalion, ostensibly the upholder of
duty and tradition, is morally ambiguous. The barbarians
are literally at the gate. Into this mix dinosaurs, plesiosaurs,
and mammoths all survive. There is a tragic love triangle,
evil sorcery, lots of swordplay, and a rousing naval
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Fauna |
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"A
great man-eating bird"
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"The
great cave-tiger"
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Giant
water lizard
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Comic
book adaptation (Daniel Panero)
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Explore
 Wikipedia: The
Lost Continent
Project Gutenberg: The
Lost Continent
Alternative
Worlds of the Nineteenth Century by Aaron Parrett
The
Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis - A review
by Georges T. Dodds
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CAPRONA
Also known as Caspak |
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 First
appearance: The Land That Time Forgot
Author/Creator: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Media: Novel
Year: 1918
Located: An island near Antarctica
Plot/Premise: In the first novel, Caprona
is described as a land mass near Antarctica, first reported
by the (fictitious) Italian explorer Caproni in 1721,
the location of which was subsequently lost. The island
is ringed by high cliffs, making it inaccessible to
all but the most intrepid explorers. It has a tropical
river teeming with primitive creatures extinct elsewhere
and a thermal inland sea, essentially a huge crater
lake, whose heat sustains Caprona’s tropical climate.
The island is also called Caspak by its native humanoid
inhabitants.
Sequels/Other appearances: The
People that Time Forgot (1918); Out of Time's
Abyss (1918)
Adaptations: The Land That Time Forgot (Film, 1975), The People That Time Forgot (1977), The Land That Time Forgot (Film, 2009) |
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Caprona
from the 1975 Amicus film The Land That Time Forgot |
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Cover by Frank Frazetta
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Marvel Comics (1975)
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Campfire Comics (2006)
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Campfire Comics (2006)
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Campfire Comics (2006)
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Fauna |
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Elasmosaur attacks (Dusko)
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Elasmosaur attacks again
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Killing fields (Dusko)
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Tyrannosaurs
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Triceratops
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Styracosaurus
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Mosasaur
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Styracosaurus
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Stegosaur
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Pterydactyl
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| Explore |
Wikipedia: Caprona
(island)
Caspak
is an Enigma by Rick Johnson
Teleport City: The
Land That Time Forgot
ERBMania: Caspak
Glossary by David Bruce Bozarth
Caspak WorldFAQ: An
Introduction to ERB's Caspak
SFFaudio: Edgar
Rice Burroughs Public Doman Audio Books
Caspak: The Land That Time Forgot by David Bruce
"Tangor" Bozarth
Cool Ass Cinema: The
Land That Time Forgot and The
People That Time Forgot reviews
ERBzine: Caspak
in Review by Steve Servello and The
Mystery of Caprona and The Wieroo of Caprona by Den Valdron
Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature: Caspak
Victorious: The Land That Time Forgot by
Ryan Harvey |
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SKULL ISLAND |
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First
appearance: King Kong
Authors/Creators: Merian C. Cooper,
Ernest B. Schoedsack, Ruth Rose, James Ashmore Creelman
and Edgar Wallace
Media: Film
Year: 1933
Located: At approximately 12°S
78°E — somewhere off the coast of Sumatra
 Plot/Premise: There is a distinctive rocky knoll in the center of
the island which is shaped like a human skull, hence
its foreboding name. It is the home of the eponymous
King Kong and several other species of creatures, mostly
prehistoric and in some cases species that should have
been extinct long before the rise of mammalian creatures
such as gorillas, along with a primitive society of
humans.
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Map
from 2005 film
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Fauna: 1933 feature |
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The
1933 expeditions' first dinosaur sighting: A Stegosaurus
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Kong
dispatches a snake-like, freshwater "elasmosaur"
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Fauna: 2005 feature |
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 Sequels/Other
appearances: Son of Kong (1933); King
Kong vs. Godzilla (1962); King Kong Escapes (1967); King Kong (1976); King Kong Lives (1986); King Kong (2005)
Adaptations: King Kong (Novel,
1932, Delos W. Lovelace); "King Kong" (Short
story, 1933, Edgar Wallace and Draycott Montagu Dell); King Kong (Magazine serial, 1933, Walter F.
Ripperger); Kong: King of Skull Island (Novel,
2005, Brad Strickland, John Michlig, Joe DeVito), King
Kong (Novelization, 2005, Fran Walsh, Philippa
Boyens, and Peter Jackson); The Island of the Skull (Prequel novel, 2005, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and
Peter Jackson); Kong Reborn (Novel, 2005, Russell
Blackford) |
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Don
Marquez |
Explore:
 Kong
is King.net
Find
Skull Island game
Wikivisual: Skull
Island
Kong:
King of Skull Island
Filmsite: King
Kong (1933)
Bad Movie Planet: King
Kong
Cinemassacre.com: King
Kong
Wikipedia: Skull
Island and King
Kong
Television Tropes and Idioms.org: King
Kong
Marrkosia: King
Kong Comics and Graphic Novels
King
Kong: Part 1 - The Creatures of Skull Island
ERBzine: King
Kong I: The Lost Civilization of Skull Island
MonsterZine.com: The
Making of King Kong: A Natural Horror Adventure
Wikizilla: Skull
Island, List
of Creatures from Skull Island and Category: King Kong
National Geographic: King
Kong Island Home Is Pure Fantasy, Ecology Experts Say |
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THUNDER ISLAND |
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First
appearance: Land of Terror
Author/Creator: Lester Dent
Media: Novel
Year: 1933
 Located: South Pacific Island, "some distance from New Zealand"
Plot/Premise: In a race to obtain a
special element required to make the Smoke of Eternity,
Doc Savage lands on volcanic, uninhabited Thunder Island
in the South Pacific. While circling above the island’s
massive, steam-shrouded crater, the seaplane carrying
Doc and crew is attacked by giant flying reptiles, living,
breathing pterodactyls of a long-dead age... Prehistoric
creatures would be encountered at least twice more over
the course of the Doc Savage series, in The Other
World (1940) and The Time Terror (1943).
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Doc
Savage Wiki
Comic Book DB: Doc
Savage
InsaneJournal: The
Land of Terror
Bronze Icon - Doc Savage: The
Land of Terror
Thunder
Island and the Smoke of Eternity by Art Sippo
Dusk Before the Dawn: The
Land of Terror by Larry Ketchersid |
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DINOSAUR ISLAND |
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known as Mystery Island and Monster Island |
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First appearance: Star-Spangled War Stories #90
Author/Creator: Robert Kanigher,
Ross Andru and Mike Esposito
Media: Comic
Year: 1960
Located: South Pacific Island
 Plot/Premise: Dinosaur Island is a mysterious uncharted island located
somewhere in the South Pacific. As its name suggests,
the island is known for supporting animal life that
would otherwise be extinct in the normal world - most
notably, its high population of dinosaurs. It is believed
that Dinosaur Island is in someway connected, either
physically or mystically, to the Inner-Earth realm
known as Skartaris. It is on this island that members
of the U.S. Armed Forces found themselves -- armed
only with standard issue weapons against the deadliest
predators ever to roam the Earth.
In the Star Spangled War Stories #90: The War
that Time Forgot when a reconnaissance patrol
fails to return from Mystery Island (as it is then known), the Question
Mark Patrol is parachuted in and discover that an
earthquake has released dinosaurs from suspended animation.
It is kept top secret and over the years many patrols
stumble upon the island and its secret.
 Sequels/Other
appearances: Batman: The Brave and the
Bold: Revenge of the Reach! (Comic); Batman:
The Brave and the Bold: Revenge of the Reach! and Terror on Dinosaur Island! (Comics);
DC: The New Frontier Vol 1 3 (Comic); Guns
of the Dragon Vol 1 1-4 (Comic); Superman/Batman
Vol 1 46 (Comic); War That Time Forgot Vol
1 1-12 (Comic); Batman: The Brave and the
Bold: "Terror on Dinosaur Island" (TV); Challengers of the Unknown: "Revenge
of the Reach" (TV); Justice League: The New
Frontier (Direct to video film)
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Comic Vine: Dinosaur
Island
DC Database: Dinosaur
Island
Don Markstein's Toonpedia: The
War That Time Forgot
Scott Shaw's Oddball Comics: Star
Spangled War Stories
Wikipedia: Dinosaur
Island and The
War that Time Forgot
Dinosaur Tracking: From
the Comic Books: The Secret Dinosaur War
Atomic Surgery Blog: The
War That Time Forgot: Medal For A Dinosaur!
Vonshollywood: Tales
from the PTO (Prehistoric Theatre of Operations) |
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UNKNOWN ISLAND |
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First
appearance: Unknown Island
Author/Creator: Robert T. Shannon,
Jack Harvey, Jack Bernhard
Media: Film
Year: 1948
Located: South Pacific Island
 Plot/Premise: A former Marine who, while on duty, discovered a previously
unknown island in the Pacific where dinosaurs and other
prehistoric animals have somehow managed to escape extinction
and live as they did millions of years ago. Still traumatized
by the experience, he returns with a photographer and
others to prove their existence. They soon find out
his story is true, and why the danger has taken such
a toll on him, as they find themselves on the run from
hungry dinosaurs.
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Brontosaurs
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Ceratosaurus
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Dimetrodon
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Ceratosaurs
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Explore
Bad
Movies.org: Unknown
Island
Internet
Movie Database: Unknown
Island |
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LOST CONTINENT |
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First
appearance: Lost Continent
Author/Creator: Sam Newfield, Orville
H. Hampton, Richard H. Landau, Carol Young
Media: Film
Year: 1951
 Located: South Pacific island
Plot/Premise: A mission heads to the South Pacific to retrieve
an atomic rocket that vanished. Their plane crashes
on a remote tropical island. They find a lone native
girl who indicates something fell from the sky onto
a forbidding plateau which dominates part of the island.
The party reaches the top despite numerous obstacles,
and discovers a lush jungle inhabited by dinosaurs.
Some die during the climb, others are killed by the
presumed-extinct animal life, but two return to the
flatland with a critical component of the rocket. They escape, along with the island girl, as a dormant volcano
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Triceratops |
Explore:
Wikipedia: Lost
Continent
Google
Video: Lost
Continent
Daddy-O's
Drive-In Dirt!: Lost
Continent
Internet
Movie Database: Lost
Continent
The
Astounding B-Monster: Sydney Melton recalls the making
of Lost Continent |
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ISLA NUBLAR and ISLA SORNA |
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Isla
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 First appearance: Jurassic Park
Author/Creator: Michael Crichton
Media: Book
Year: 1990
Located: 120 miles (190 km) off the
coast of Costa Rica and Isla Sorna is 87 miles southwest
of it and approximately 207
miles off the coast of Costa Rica.
Plot/Premise: Isla Nublar is the site of a disastrous
attempt by InGen Corporation to create a theme park
of cloned dinosaurs. Isla Sorna, also known as "Site
B", is another fictional island that serves as an
InGen laboratory and research centre, where dinosaurs
are hatched and reared before being moved to Isla
Nublar as juveniles. |
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Sequels/Other appearances: The Lost World (1995)
Adaptations: Jurassic Park (1993), The
Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Jurassic Park
III (2001), numerous videos, comics and computer games |
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Fauna |
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Tyrannosaurus
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Pachycephalosaurus
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Stegosaurus
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Triceratops
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Mamenchisaurus
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Corythosaurus
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Ceratosaurus
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Spinosaurus |
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Dilophosaurus
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Compsognathus
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Velociraptor
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Pteranodon
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Wikibin: Isla
Nublar
Wikitravel: Jurassic
Park
Jurassic Park Wiki: Isla
Sorna
Wikipedia: Jurassic
Park (franchise)
The Big Waste of Space: The
Flubs of Jurassic Park
The San Diego Natural History Museum: The
Science of "Jurassic Park" |
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DINOTOPIA |
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 First
appearance: Dinotopia: A Land Apart from
Time
Author/Creator: James Gurney
Media: Picture book
Year: 1998
Located: Indian Ocean
Plot/Premise: Dinotopia is an isolated
island deep in the uncharted reaches of the Indian Ocean
and inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurs
that have learned to coexist peacefully as a single
symbiotic society.
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is about 200 miles across, and is home to a full spectrum
of climates: the east is largely desert; the Rainy Basin
is a tropical region roughly in the center of the island;
the west is largely temperate; and the Forbidden Mountains
are frigid cold tundra. A number of offshore islands
are also populated. The island remains uncharted because
it is surrounded by storms and unnavigable reefs. Once
wrecked on the island, there are very few ways back
off. Continental drift separated Dinotopia from the
Indian subcontinent. Sixty-five million years ago, dinosaurs
found refuge from the effects of the asteroid that killed
off the rest of their kind by sequestering themselves
in the caverns of the World Beneath. Presumably, groups
of animals periodically escaped extinction in the World
Beneath in the eons preceding the great Cretaceous extinction,
explaining the broad spectrum of Mesozoic creatures.
During the great Ice Age, a land bridge invited the
large mammals to share the island, as well.
 Sequels/Other appearances: A Land
Apart from Time; The World Beneath; First Flight; Journey to Chandara; Dinotopia
Lost (1996) and Hand of Dinotopia (1999)
by Alan Dean Foster; Numerous children's books
Adaptations: "Dinotopia"
miniseries (2002, Hallmark); "Dinotopia" television
series; Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone animated film (2005); Dinotopia Adventure Game for PC
(PC: 1995); Dinotopia: Living the Adventure (PC: 1996); Dinotopia Game Land Activity Center (PC/Mac: 2002); Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates (Game Boy Advance: 2002); Dinotopia: The Sunstone
Odyssey (GameCube/Xbox: 2003)
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Dinotopia
Dinotopia Wiki
Gurney
Journey
The
City of Mists
Wikipedia: Dinotopia
Dinotopian
RP Forum |
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