Where is gravette island

Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Gravett Island. Edit source History Talk 0. As Picard, Crusher and Worf confirm the auto-destruct one by one, a map of Earth with several highlighted spots appears on a screen.

We can see how the display zooms in to the "Landing Target" of the escape pods on Gravett Island, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Picard then says "See you on Gravett Island" , confirming that this is the place the crew of the Enterprise is being evacuated to. Gravett Island doesn't exist in reality.

It was named for Jacques Gravett, assistant to Ron D. We can never see Gravett Island except for its location and outline on the screen on the bridge. The coastline of the island on screen tells us it is a rocky island, rather than an atoll. The coordinates are given as "18 " on the display and don't make sense as geographic coordinates. However, we can see on the Earth map that Gravett Island is about the same longitude as Anchorage and the same latitude as Cape Town.

This puts the fictional island in a very remote part of the South Pacific, fittingly not far from the famous Pitcairn Islands of the Bounty mutineers that would be several hundred kilometers to the northeast. The closest real island groups would be the Gambier Islands some km to the north and Marotiri Bass Islands at about the same distance to the west, both parts of French Polynesia, the latter of which is uninhabited.

The holodeck scenario about Sainte Claire may originally have been an educational program and was intentionally set in a generic French town that doesn't really exist, in order to allow some artistic license in the depiction of the place and of the events. Sainte Claire looks quite small, which is also verbally confirmed in the episode.

Chakotay, who in his role as an allied captain had been in the town before the war, says: "Sainte Claire's not a big place. Sainte Claire has a certain degree of urbanity. Furthermore, the town appears to be of major strategic importance, as Katrine aka Janeway says: "The Americans won't even be able to approach this city without our help, and if they can't liberate Sainte Claire the assault into Germany could fail.

It is obvious that Sainte Claire has to be located somewhere in northern France, not far from the Belgian border. However, the maps of the surroundings of Sainte Claire don't give us more information about its possible location or about a possible real place standing in for the fictional town on a map. The second map that we can see up close in the first part doesn't even include any form of labels.

In the second part of the episode we can see a street map of Sainte Claire. This map can be identified as one of Toulouse. As the Art Department was probably just looking for a "French-style" street map to stand in for Sainte Claire, it doesn't matter that Toulouse is actually located in southern France. However, Toulouse is a major city, and the map with its systematic street grid and various roundabouts and squares makes Sainte Claire look a lot bigger here than it is otherwise supposed to be.

Construction of the Millennium Gate started soon after December 31, when Henry Janeway was the last inhabitant to give up his resistance against the project.

The building was dedicated in In the course of the construction the whole town was likely demolished. Most likely a non-existing town was chosen on purpose, because it would cease to exist in the Star Trek Universe. Since the Millennium Gate doesn't exist in reality either, the non-existence of Portage Creek is not really a continuity issue.

Portage Creek, however, is a real place in Alaska. The most definite evidence for the location of Portage Creek is that Henry Janeway goes to Bloomington to purchase supplies because the local businesses are boycotting him because of his resistance against the Millennium Gate.

My Google-fu finds nothing but mentions of it on Star Trek websites and there's no article on a Gravett Island at all on Wikipedia, so I'm tempted to think it dosen't actually exist.

But if it does exist, a link to an article which shows pictures of it would be greatly appreciated. And if possible, I'd really, really like a link to a Google Maps image as well. No, it doesn't exist. The remaining Enterprise crew landed on Gravett Island in order to minimize the possibility of polluting the timeline, and thereby violating the Temporal Prime Directive.

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