List of objects in Pirates of the Caribbean

The following is a list of fictional canonical objects in the Pirates of the Caribbean films . Created and produced by the producers of the trilogy, the objects often play a relevant key plot or symbolic role either in one, two or all of the films. A major reference tool in this article is the official canonical Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide.
Aztec Medallion
The fictional Aztec Medallion played a key role in The Curse of the Black Pearl
In pain from Calypso's betrayal of his love, Jones carved out his beating heart and locked it away in the Dead Man's Chest, which was left buried on Isla Cruces, Jones keeping the key with him, hidden. The second film made it evident that rumors about the chest and its contents were common throughout the pirates' universe; whosoever acquired the heart could control Jones, and thus the oceans' realms.
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The driving force in the plot of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is the quest to find the chest. It is noted that the compass does not point north, and only Jack Sparrow is able to read the strange device. In ' (2006), Cutler Beckett wants the compass as it can lead him to the thing he most desires: the Dead Man's Chest. Jack later tells Elizabeth Swann that the compass points "...to the thing you want most in this world..." This was because he originally had problems opening it to the right page. On this map, Beckett has the artisan record areas of the world under the influence of the Company. During his stay at Port Royal, Beckett is constantly brought reports of the Company's "growing power and new discoveries." For this reason, the map has its blank sections filled in progressively as new ports, countries and towns fall under the power of the Company.<ref name="beckett's plan"/>
The map is a crude depiction of the world as known in the 18th century, depicting the continents and seas accompanied by their latin names. For the continents: North America, America Septen Trio Nalis; South America, America Meridio Nalis; Europe, Evrope; Asia; Africa; and Australia, Hollandia Nova. Within the continents, their rivers are also drawn, and at their borders with the seas, hundreds of names of ports are written in small lettering. The map also features the oceans: Atlantic Ocean, Mare Atlanticum; Indian Ocean, Oceanus Orientalis; the seas west of China and Japan, Oceanus Chinesis; and the Pacific Ocean, Mare Pacificum. Within these bodies of water are painted small ships and islands.<ref name="beckett's plan"/>
Other details of the map include: two length scales, Miliaria Germanica Communia and Miliaria Gallica Communia; a sea at the bottom encompassing of sea creatures, ships, and ice bergs; and a crest stating, "Britannia prout divila fuit temporibus Anglo-saxonvm praefertim durante illorum heptarchia." The Terra Incognito is also crossed with a series of latitude and longitudinal lines. It also includes the: Arctic Circle, Circulus Arcticus; Tropic of Cancer, Tropicus Cancri; the equator, Circulus Æquinotialis; and the Tropic of Capricorn, Tropicus Capricorni (the map is missing the Antarctic Circle and the continent of Antarctica). On the top of the map, a ribbon proclaims, "Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographyca tabula".<ref name="beckett's plan"/>
The whole map in its entirety can be viewed in a two page spread in the book, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide.<ref name="beckett's plan"/>
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