Survivor 43
Mamanuca Islands, Fiji
A new-era season that delivered one of the most heartfelt and genuinely unexpected champions in the show's history.
Sole Survivor
Mike Gabler
Won the jury 7-1-0
- Year
- 2022
- Location
- Mamanuca Islands, Fiji
- Format
- New era
- Days
- 26 days
- Castaways
- 18
- Grand prize
- $1,000,000
- Jury vote
- 7-1-0
Also read at the Final Tribal Council
How Mike Gabler won
Gabler, a 51-year-old heart-valve specialist, played a patient, under-the-radar game — then revealed he would donate his entire prize to charity serving veterans.
In context
Era
The New Era
2021–2026
Timeline
43rd of 50
Aired 2022
Filming
Fiji
12th of 19 seasons filmed here
Starting tribes
The 3 tribes marooned when the game began — and where the names come from.
The Fijian name for the banyan / small-leaved fig tree. The season's starting tribes were all named for native Fijian trees.
From 'koka', the Fijian name for the bishopwood tree.
The Fijian name for vesi (Intsia bijuga), the prized Pacific teak hardwood.
At the merge · they became Gaia — Merge tribe — the Greek primordial earth goddess (not a Fijian word). Suggested by Cassidy Clark.
Explore Season 43
Common questions
- Who won Survivor Survivor 43?
- Mike Gabler won Survivor: Survivor 43 (Season 43, 2022), taking the jury vote 7-1-0.
- Where was Survivor Season 43 filmed?
- Survivor: Survivor 43 was filmed in Mamanuca Islands, Fiji.
- When did Survivor Season 43 air?
- Survivor: Survivor 43 aired in 2022 and ran 26 days.
- Who were the finalists in Survivor Survivor 43?
Around the fire
The tribe's debating Survivor 43 right now
“Cirie never needed an idol. She WAS the idol — read every vote a round early and bent the whole jungle to her will without a single immunity win. That's the cei…”
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