Rumrunner's Isle

"Did ye not notice? That be the same little island we made you governor of on our last little trip." "...I did notice."

- Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

Rumrunner's Isle, also known as Black Sam's Spit, was a small desert island in the Caribbean Sea, in relative proximity to Isla de Muerta, and located northwest of Tortuga. Rumrunners used the spit of land as a cache, and Jack Sparrow was marooned on the island following the first mutiny of Captain Hector Barbossa.

First visit
"Last time...I was here a grand total of three days, all right? Last time...the rumrunners used this island as a cache. They came by and I was able to barter passage off."

- Jack Sparrow to Elizabeth Swann

In order to improve his own mystique and legend, Jack Sparrow fabricated numerous elaborate stories about his escape from Black Sam's Spit, most famously that he had roped together two sea turtles (using hair from his back as rope) to fashion an impromptu raft. In actuality, Sparrow had simply resigned himself to his fate, discovered the rumrunners' cache and spent three days drinking rum. The rumrunners then arrived and he was able to barter passage off the island.

Second visit
"'Must've been terrible for you to be trapped here, Jack. Must've been terrible for you&mdash;' Well, it bloody is now!"

- Jack Sparrow after Elizabeth Swann burned all of the rum supply.

Jack was later marooned on Rumrunner's Isle by Barbossa once more, along with Elizabeth Swann, some ten years after his first, legendary escape, following the destruction of the HMS Interceptor. By now, the rumrunners had long abandoned their cache, possibly due to James Norrington's efforts to eradicate piracy in the Caribbean. As Jack had no plan of escape, Elizabeth took matters into her own hands, and burned the remaining rum and food on the island, along with several trees, to create a smoke signal one thousand feet high. The plume was spotted by the marines aboard HMS Dauntless, and the two were quickly rescued.

Jack would return once more to Rumrunner's Isle within the following year: this time to maroon his former crew on the very island they twice left him to die, following their siege of Port Royal. The cursed crew escaped, however, presumably by walking across the seabed to safety.

Behind the scenes

 * Terry Rossio, one of the writers of the The Curse of the Black Pearl, revealed that the proposed name of the island, which was unnamed at the time, was "Black Sam's Spit". The name was later used for the Pirates of the Caribbean Monopoly game. While the official PotC website and the online game, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, had officially named the island "Rumrunner's Isle".

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow: Silver
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
 * The Buccaneer's Heart!
 * Pirates of the Caribbean Online
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (video game)