CREDITS THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, 1997 dir: Steven Spielberg Jeff Goldblum Julianne Moore Richard Attenborough Vince Vaughn Pete Postlethwaite Peter Stormare Arliss Howard

“Ooh, aah – that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.”

Funny, nobody mentioned ‘Isla Sorna’ – Site B – in Jurassic Park. And, if the T-Rex was held below deck, what ran rampage on the ship and shredded the crew? Plot holes apart, the sequel to Steven Spielberg's summer blockbuster is a hugely enjoyable ride.

The mansion of John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) house, where Dr Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) has his arm twisted to travel out to the previously unmentioned Isla Sorna, is actually a Catholic girls’school in Pasadena, Mayfield Senior School, 500 Bellefontaine Street (seen also in Devil in a Blue Dress, with Denzel Washington, the Steve Martin noir-pastiche Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and the Eddie Murphy remake of The Nutty Professor).

Site B again used Jurassic Park’s main location on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, for scene setting. The beach, where the unfortunate xxx family, decide to hold a picnic, is Kipu Kai Beach, on Kauai's south shore (accessible only by boat). , much of the action was filmed on mainland USA, in northern California north of Eureka, in Patrick's Point State Park and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.

The T-Rex wreaks havoc on landing at ‘San Diego’, supposedly in the city’s Gaslamp district. But once again, thereís a bit of sleight of hand. San Diego only features in a bit of Second Unit aerial footage to establish the locale.

John Hammond's house: Mayfield Senior School, Pasadena

Most of the filming was much closer to the studio in Burbank, at Golden Mall on San Fernando Boulevard between Palm Grove and Orange Grove, which were renamed with ‘San Diego’ street signs.

The Starbucks coffee shop is at 300 San Fernando Boulevard. The bookshop where the screenwriter David Koepp, in a cameo as ‘Unlucky Bastard’ gets chomped by the T-Rex, is Crown Books, 301 San Fernando Boulevard.

The ‘InGen’ dock where the T-Rex boat crashes ashore is San Pedro Harbor, to the south of LA.

T-Rex trashes the gas station: Balboa Boulevard, Granada Hills

The house where T-Rex takes a drink from the swimming pool and snacks on a dog is in Granada Hills, a Valley suburb of LA, and here too is the gas station, where the trademark ‘76’ ball rolls down the street. It’s the Chevron Filling Station, Balboa Boulevard at the corner of Rinaldi.

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