Isla Sorna



Isla Sorna (Sarcasm Island in Spanish), also known as Site B, is the second island containing dinosaurs owned by InGen, featured in the novel and film The Lost World and in the movie Jurassic Park III.

 Isla Sorna is part of the island chain knows as The Five Deaths (Las Cinco Muertes), and is located approximately 207 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, in the Pacific Ocean. It is eighty miles from Isla Nublar, the island of the Jurassic Park theme park.

When John Hammond created Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, he also created a secondary site, known as Site B, where the dinosaurs are actually cloned and raised until a certain age/size when they were to be transferred into the park. It was not intended as a tourist destination. However, due to an unknown virus the animal production reduced severely; new borns die in a matter of days. In order to overcome the possiblity that diseases are being transmitted through workers at the plant, they tagged the animals with radio transmitters and released them to the habitat. But there were some accidents on the island, and a hurricane destroyed much of the facilities on the island. InGen was forced to evacuate Site B and leave the animals to fend for themselves. Forgotten, dinosaurs take over the island and turn it into a real Jurassic Park.

In the novel of The Lost World, Ian Malcolm learns of this island from palaeontologist Richard Levine, and he sets off to investigate the new-found "Lost World." However, Lewis Dodgson of the Biosyn corporation also learns of Isla Sorna and seeks to nab dinosaur eggs. However, Dodgson and his team are killed and most of Malcolm and his team escape the island.

In the film version of The Lost World, John Hammond tells Ian Malcolm about Site B; he asks him to document the island before it is "found and pillaged." As Malcolm arrives, so does InGen, seeking to steal the animals for research and a new park.

In Jurassic Park III, Alan Grant is tricked into going to Site B to help two estranged parents find their son. Grant explains to them he had been on Isla Nublar, not Isla Sorna.