🏙 Towns & cities
Merritt Island
census designated place in Brevard County, Florida, United States
🇺🇸 United States · 28.3578, -80.6847
Merritt Island is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Merritt Island, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 1 more.
“Zemeckis and the production crew also made several visits to the Kennedy Space Center at Merritt Island adjacent to Cape Canaveral, where officials gave them access to sites off-limits to most visitors.”
Movies filmed in Merritt Island
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Merritt Island as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
Filming locations nearby
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Kennedy Space Center
🇺🇸 United States
US space launch site in Florida
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
🇺🇸 United States
launch pad at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Orbiter Processing Facility
🇺🇸 United States
class of hangars formerly used for Space Shuttle maintenance at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Vehicle Assembly Building
🇺🇸 United States
building used by NASA to assemble rockets at the Kennedy Space Center
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Cape Canaveral
🇺🇸 United States
cape on the Atlantic coast of Florida in the United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Rockledge
🇺🇸 United States
city in Brevard County, Florida, United States of America
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Merritt Island?
2 productions are recorded as filmed in Merritt Island, including Apollo 13 (1995) and Contact (1997). 1 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Merritt Island?
Apollo 13 (1995), covered by 64 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Merritt Island?
Merritt Island is in the United States, at 28.3578, -80.6847.
What other filming locations are near Merritt Island?
Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, Orbiter Processing Facility, Vehicle Assembly Building and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0.