Dharma Secret’s LOST-n-Found: A Blog Dedicated to the T.V. Show Lost

A while back, I found something interesting that made me rethink the Blast Door Map.

On navigation charts, the map is broken up into quadrants and labeled C1, C2, etc. This got me thinking, what if C1-C7 is not hatch designations, but refer to the quadrant in which they are located on the island. I have been trying to locate a good screen cap of Rousseau’s map of the island, but have not been able to find one. I’m thinking that if I can locate a map, perhaps I can divide it into quadrants, and maybe get some insight to the layout of the different stations on the island.

I couldn’t find a map that suited my needs, so I designed these maps in hopes of maybe going somewhere with this theory. I noticed that the island in Rousseau’s map looked very similar to the Hawaiian island of Oahu with a few alterations. So I found a suitable picture of Oahu, and fired up the old paint program.


I then overlaid a grid over the map, and numbered them as follows.


As indicated on the blast door map, C2 (Arrow Hatch) is on the north side of the island, C3 and C4 are located somewhere in the mountains, and C5 (Swan Hatch) is on the south side of the island. One thing that I do find interesting is that quadrant C5 and C7 (Staff Hatch) are opposite of each other. By looking at the blast door map, you would think that the Staff hatch is on the other side of the island. The fact that this map shows us that C5 and C7 are literally right next to each other could explain how Kate, Rousseau, and Clair were able to walk to the Staff Hatch and back with-in a day.

Also, this arrangement has a C8 quadrant, so if the “?” is C8, then it could be in the C8 quadrant. Notice the cliff in the C8 quadrant, which could be the cliff Boone fell off of in the plane. However, that is a rather far distance to travel considering that Lock and Boone did it in half a day, and that after Boone got hurt, Locke would have had to carry him almost half the length of the island on his way to the cave (which most likely is in the C5 quadrant, although it is possible that it could be in the C4 quadrant, but I won’t get into that).

Another thing that I find interesting about this map is that there is very little land in the C6 Quadrant. This suggests to me that it is C6 (Flame Hatch) that is the underwater hatch, and not C4, as everyone believes.

One of the main reasons that many believed that C4 was the underwater hatch is because the name “Pearl” was written in the vicinity of C4 on the blast door map.

However, we know from the “?” episode that the hatch in the center of the map was the Pearl (assuming that they did find the center hatch in that episode?). Another thing that may discredit the belief of C4 being under water is if you look at the geography on the blast door map, it appears that C4 is in the mountains.

One thing that might discredit this part of my theory is that in “Solitary”, when Sayid finds the cable (The first thing that got people theorizing about an underwater hatch), he was walking east (I say east because if the camp was on the south side of the island then walking with your right side facing the water would be east). However, there are a few things that I would like to point out that would disprove the idea that the cable was on the east side of the island.

The first thing that I would like to point out is that the show is filmed in Mokuleia on the north shore of Oahu. Because of this, all the directions in the show are reversed. In the episode, Sayid left the camp in the morning, so if he were walking east, then he would be walking towards the sun. However, in the episode, he was walking away from the sun.


The only way that Sayid could walk away from the sun when the camp is on the south side of the island is if he were traveling west, or if he walked east in the afternoon. Since the show is filmed on the north side of Oahu, then Naveen Andrews is walking west in the scene at the beginning of “Solitary”. This discrepancy could in fact contribute to my theory of the cable being on the southwest side of the island. If the Sayid left the camp in the morning, walking with the sun to his back, then he would be traveling west, hence if there were an underwater hatch, it could be in the C6 quadrant as indicated in my map.

Another thing that I have come to notice, although not directly from my map, is that there is yet another discrepancy with the Crash. If, as mentioned by the pilot in the first episode, the plane was flying from Sydney to Los Angeles (heading northeast) then turned around reroute to Fiji (now heading southwest) then the plane’s tail section should have landed on the northeast side of the island (quadrant C2). But, if you look at the trajectory in which the tail section of the plane hit the water, it was coming from the northwest which would put it in the C1 quadrant.


Take notice that the sunlight in the screen cap above is coming from right. If this point of view were facing north, then the light would be coming from the east.

The next thing that I came to notice is that the fuselage, which supposedly landed on the south side of the island, is facing the wrong way. The fuselage is facing the island, which singe they are on the south side of the island would mean that it is facing north. This would indicate that the plane was on a northern heading. As I previously stated, if the plane was traveling southwest towards Fiji, then why is the fuselage facing north? Shouldn’t the fuselage be facing south towards the ocean? The only thing that could possibly explain the arrangement of the wreckage is if the fuselage flipped up-side-down, then went into a flat spin as it fell towards the island.

Take notice that the sun is shining from the left. If the this point of view if facing south, then the sun would be shinning from the east.

Take note that the engine is facing towards the island with the exhaust blowing south towards the sea.

And finally, the cockpit is also facing the wrong direction. If Jack, Kate and Charlie had to walk inland from the beach to reach the cockpit, then that means that they would be heading north.

If the plane was flying southwest, then the nose of the plane should be pointing in the direction that it was going. Yet, when they arrive, Jack, Kate and Charlie find the plane pointing west (assuming that they are still walking in a northerly direction). Again, it could be possible that the plane went into a flat spin as it descended, but due to the lack of ground scaring around the cockpit, this is highly unlikely.

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