Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth was a legendary spring which was said to restore youth to anyone who drank from it.

History!
According to the legends of the Arawaks—a tribe native to the western Caribbean islands—the Fountain was located somewhere north of Cuba, in a land called Bimini. In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León searched in Florida for the Fountain, but never found it.

Following the destruction of the HMS Endeavour, Captain Jack Sparrow set off in search of the Fountain of Youth, using navigational charts stolen from Hector Barbossa. Barbossa had also intended to find the Fountain, but the quest was postponed because of the loss of that particular map in the charts.

Behind the scenes

 * Tim Powers' novel, On Stranger Tides, involves a quest for the Fountain of Youth, which will be used as a plot basis for the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
 * In an extra for the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest DVD, Gore Verbinski stated that the Fountain of Youth was one of the thousands of possibilities for a plot on the second one.
 * In the first screenplay draft of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Barbossa starts to search for the Fountain of Youth, using the captain's journal of Juan Ponce de León that he took from Tia Dalma who received it from a mermaid.
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: The Fountain of Youth was the proposed title of the fourth movie and was highly used by both critics and fans. However, on September 11 2009, Johnny Depp announced the film is going to be called Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and is coming up Summer 2011. It has been confirmed that Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa travel the seas in search of it.

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides