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18 unusual facts about Treasure Island


Captain Alexander Smollett

In the 1996 Disney film Muppet Treasure Island, this character was renamed Captain Abraham Smollett (Kermit the Frog) by Brian Henson and the scriptwriters, in which he is rewritten as easy-going and fair in deference to Kermit's amiable character.

Captain Alexander Smollett is the captain of the schooner Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.

In the 2006 film Pirates of Treasure Island by The Asylum, the character is renamed Captain Smollette and depicted as a Frenchman trading with the then-new United States.

Carter Oosterhouse

In addition, he has also appeared in television advertisements for Bud Light, Lake Michigan Credit Union, Nivea, Treasure Island in Las Vegas, Gillette's M3Power razor, and Rooms To Go.

Cuisine of Antebellum America

As some of the privateers became pirates and buccaneers, their fondness for rum remained, the association between the two only being strengthened by literary works such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Drummond Street, Edinburgh

The property is now an Italian restaurant, the decor of which is in homage to Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Gene Kirby

In retirement, he lived in Treasure Island, Florida, where he was a longtime friend of veteran baseball man Don Zimmer.

Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs

Kyuzaburo Sakata, a successful local Japanese lettuce grower in Watsonville, announced he would build a Japanese garden to be designed by Nagao Sakurai, of the Imperial Palace, who was involved in the Japanese exhibit at the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition at Treasure Island in San Francisco.

James G. Smyth

Smyth was also director of exhibits and special events of the California Commission for the Golden Gate International Exposition (also known as the 1939 World's Fair at Treasure Island).

John Greenslade

Vice Admiral Greenslade was very instrumental to the development and wartime growth of Treasure Island.

North Bay Village, Florida

Treasure Island, whose street names were drawn from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, is a mixture of single-family dwellings on the westerly end and multi-family dwellings on the eastern end.

Pile of Skulls

The lyrics of "Treasure Island" are based on the book of the same title, by 19th century author Robert Louis Stevenson.

Piracy in the British Virgin Islands

The Blackbeard myth was perpetuated in the BVI when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his now famous book "Treasure Island".

Squire Trelawney

Squire John Trelawney is a supporting character from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.

Tafahi

It is speculated by Swiss Walter Hurni and described by the Swiss author Alex Capus, that Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, found the Treasure of Lima around 1890 on this island while living on the nearby island of Upolu and which made him and his family very rich.

The Gene Machine

The plot shared many common elements with Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon, as well as many other literary and historical references to Victorian England, such as Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, The Time Machine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jack the Ripper and many others.

Toa Payoh Community Library

It carries the theme of "Treasure Island", which encourages the children to explore and imagine.

Treasure Island, Florida

Legendary baseball slugger Babe Ruth had a winter beachfront home on Treasure Island after his retirement.


Chinatown, Las Vegas

Public bus route #203 runs at half hour intervals starting from the bus stand next to the Fashion Show Mall near the base of the pedestrian bridge crossing from Treasure Island.

Coxswain

The fictional Israel Hands, for example, was the coxswain of the Hispaniola in Treasure Island.

Dead Man's Chest

One such example is R. F. Delderfield's The Adventures of Ben Gunn, in which Ben tells Jim Hawkins that the song is a reference to "an island of the Leewards" which "was little more than a long, high rock, shaped like a coffin" which was nicknamed "Dead Man's Chest".

Enrique Breccia

He also drew several comic book adaptions of famous novels such as Till Eulenspiegel, Treasure Island and Moby Dick.

Film Cuts

The album is a collection of music by The Chieftains used in the motion picture soundtracks of Rob Roy, Circle of Friends, Treasure Island, Barry Lyndon, Lovespell aka Tristan and Isolde, The Grey Fox, Far and Away, and a documentary: Ireland Moving.

Frank Godwin

Francis Godwin (October 20, 1889 – August 5, 1959), better known as Frank Godwin, was an American illustrator and comic strip artist, notable for his strip Connie and his book illustrations for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, Robin Hood and King Arthur.

Leigh Scott

Scott also directed and appeared in Pirates of Treasure Island, an adaptation of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which Scott appeared as Ben Gunn.

Navy Pier

Coordinated from a central operation in Chicago, this eventually had three levels: Pre-Radio School, mainly at Chicago Junior Colleges; Primary School, initially given by six engineering colleges across the Nation; and Secondary (or Advanced) School at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., at Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay, and at Naval Air Technical Training Center Ward Island, near Corpus Christi, Texas.

Nick Harper

His 2006 album Treasure Island was a change of direction, seeing both a concerted shift to more overtly political themes (songs such as Knuckledraggers, Sleeper Cell and Intelligent Design - spliced together from audio clips of George W. Bush's speeches on the war on terror - were all highly critical of the Bush regime) and to more historical perspectives.

Paddy Moloney

He is the primary composer and arranger of much of the Chieftains' music, and has composed for films including Treasure Island, The Grey Fox, Braveheart, and Gangs of New York.

Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island

The Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, also known as Building 3, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, California, was an aircraft hangar constructed in 1938 for Pan American World Airways' trans-Pacific Clipper services, and then modified for the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition.