Apparently the folks at Google Maps have found the Lost island. (Via Digg I think, though ironically I can't find the permalink.)
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In case anyone's interested in the real location:
http://www.kualoa.com/tours.htm
http://maps.google.com/?ll=21.521593,-157.825985&spn=0.051421,0.082998&t=h
Bernardo: Thanks for finding the real location. I was pleasantly surprised to recall that I've been there before! Maybe if I had actually watched an episide of Lost then I would have recognized the surroundings.
I actually noticed that the ridge of mountains in the background looks JUST like one from Jurassic Park (a movie I was obsessed with when I was in middle school), Pearl Harbor (a movie I did not like much, but I watched the flying scenes over and over), and Windtalkers (where the mountains are shot from the same angle as in Pearl Harbor, with the water far away to the left, so I recognised them when the movie came out some months after Pearl Harbor). When I saw the mountains again in Lost, I was like "Wow, that's the same place as in Windtalkers, Pearl Harbor, and Jurassic Park", which was enough for an online search to find it.
Turns out that Tears of the Sun, Godzilla, Mighty Joe Young, The Phantom (all of which I have seen), 50 First Dates, Along Came Polly, The Rundown, Magnum P.I., George of the Jungle, Byrds of Paradise, Fantasy Island, and Krippendorf's Tribe (none of which I have seen) were shot there too.
I have a life, I swear...
How do we know that this is really the "Lost" island?
Because if we look at the photo page we can hear Michael screaming "Waaaaalllllllt!!!!!!!" every so often.
From the satellite that took the pictures. In space.
Man, what a jerk.