Where was Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales filmed?

The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is back six years after the last movie about the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow was released. Also known as Salazar's Revenge (depending on the country), Dead Men Tell No Tales is the fifth instalment of the series that started with the unexpected 2003 hit The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Along with the returning cast (Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Geoffrey Rush), there are some new characters joining the crew like Javier Bardem as the undead Armando Salazar, Brenton Thwaites as the son of Will and Elizabeth, or Kaya Scodelario as the astronomer Carina Smyth.

In this occasion our favourite pirates did not take a single shot in the Caribbean. Dead Men Tell No Tales was filmed entirely in Australia, mainly in the area where the movie was based in the Gold Coast:

Most of the indoor scenes were filmed at the Village Roadshow Studios (Oxenford), on the outskirts of Gold Coast. Also after wrapping the movie in Australia, some reshoots took place in Vancouver (Canada).
Image courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures

A massive village set was built near the town of Maudsland. Also a second set with a giant green screen, supported by lots of shipping containers, served to shot water scenes of the Silent Mary in Helensvale.
Image courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures

This is an image of the set that for a few weeks was standing at the Doug Jennings Park on the Southport Spit. Here it was constructed one of the 12 different boats used for filming. Image by Erika

Due to the bad weather conditions on the Split, the crew moved the Dying Gull ship to Raby Bay to shot open-water scenes. Image courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures

The team also used the scenic area of Mount Tamborine for some shots in the jungle.
Image by Luke Chapman

Pirates of the Caribbean filmed some key scenes in the popular tourist destination of the Whitsunday Islands (northeast coast of Queensland), on the wondrous Whitehaven Beach.
Image courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures and Atlas of Wonders

A replica of a sperm whale skeleton was erected on the northern side of Hastings Point (New South Wales).
Image by Steve Austin

One day of shooting took place near Boulders Beach at Lennox Head (New South Wales)
Image by Michael Dawes

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