Saint Marie (fictional island) Saint Marie (fictional island) Saint Marie is a fictional island in the Lesser Antilles which serves as the setting for the BBC crime drama television series "Death in Paradise". Saint Marie is described in Episode 3.3 as a "pretty island" that is "situated in the Eastern Caribbean Sea" and "one-tenth the size of its north-west neighbour Guadeloupe", which would make Saint Marie about in size. It is described in Episode 4.5 as being 70 miles from Martinique. The island is a British Overseas Territory, but was handed over to the British from the French only in the 1970s, so that
The Fountains of Paradise equatorial island country of Taprobane, which Clarke has described as "about ninety percent congruent with the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)", south of its real-world location. The ruins of the palace at Yakkagala as described in the book very closely match the real-life ruins at Sigiriya in Sri Lanka. The mountain on which the space elevator is built is called Sri Kanda in the book, and bears a strong resemblance to the real mountain Sri Pada. The Fountains of Paradise The Fountains of Paradise is a novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Set in the 22nd century, it