List of Locations in Pirates of The Caribbean - Tortuga

Tortuga is a pirate island off the northern coast of Haiti, out of the jurisdiction of the Royal Navy and the East India Trading Company. While it remains a free port where traders can escape the high East India tariffs, it is a dangerous one where illegal transactions are common. Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner, in hot pursuit of Captain Hector Barbossa, moor their stolen ship, Interceptor, there to recruit a crew. Their conscripts included Joshamee Gibbs, Anamaria, Cotton, and Marty.

Tortuga, which also appears in Dead Man's Chest, features the now infamous poodie bandits "running riot on rum." Will goes to Tortuga to hunt for Jack Sparrow, although he ultimately finds him on Pelegosto Island (see below). A denizen tells Will that he saw a ship with black sails (the Black Pearl) beached on Pelegosto while he was sailing a trade route. Jack returns to Tortuga to try and enlist ninety-nine unsuspecting sailors to pay off his blood debt to Davy Jones. Although he falls far short of his goal, the new crew proves useful during the final confrontation with the Kraken, although they apparently do not survive. Jack is reunited with Elizabeth Swann while in Tortuga and also recruits the down-and-out James Norrington, who resigned his commission after losing his ship in a hurricane while pursuing the Black Pearl, although Norrington first tries to shoot Sparrow.

At the conclusion of At World's End, Barbossa leaves Jack and Gibbs in Tortuga by inciting a mutiny and hijacking the Black Pearl. Only this time they leave him on an inhabited island - and for him a dinghy - acting much fairer than the first time. Despite the surprised look on Jack's face when he finds the "Pearl" gone it seems he almost expected it to happen, for he still outwits Barbossa in the end. Gibbs stays in Tortuga when Jack leaves.

At the end of On Stranger Tides, Barbossa is in command of Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. With that he yells out that they'll travel back to Tortuga, although it remains to be seen for what purposes.