Deathwater Island
Also known as Goldwater, Deathwater
An island with a pool that turns what it touches to gold. The temptation it presents nearly breaks the fellowship among Caspian and the Pevensies.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader4 cited passages⌄
- Chapter VIII · paragraph 78
…d. I claim this land for ever as a Narnian possession. It shall be called Goldwater Island. And I bind all you to secrecy. No one must know of this. Not even Drinian--on pain of death, do you hea…
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 85
…e. And if I might have the honour of naming this island, I should call it Deathwater."
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 71
…ebinthia, the Seven Isles, the Lone Islands, Dragon Island, Burnt Island, Deathwater, and the land of the Duffers itself, all exactly the right sizes and in the right positions. They were the firs…
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 23
…ia with all the speed you may, and above all not to land on the Island of Deathwater. And instruct my regent, the Dwarf Trumpkin, to give to all these, my shipmates, the rewards I promised them. T…
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