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
Sodor (fictional island) Sodor (fictional island) Sodor is a fictional island located in the Irish Sea, just off the English mainland near Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. It is the setting for "The Railway Series" books by the Rev. W. Awdry (and his son Christopher), and also for the popular television series "Thomas & Friends". The need for consistency in the locations for The Railway Series necessitated the creation of a suitable location. Awdry required a setting for his books that would be within Great Britain, but would be sufficiently isolated from the rest of British Railways to allow him to do as he wished