Survivor 4 Marquesas
Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia Feb 28 – May 19, 2002 Filmed Nov 12 – Dec 20, 2001
Format Tribe Raid debut Journey Tribe Switch
Winner
Vecepia Towery won 4-3 Who won Survivor 4?
Vecepia Towery won Survivor 4, defeating Neleh Dennis by a 4-3 final jury vote.
- Cast
- 16 castaways
- Filmed in
- Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
- Premiere
- Feb 28, 2002
- Finale
- May 19, 2002
Jump to the full cast and finish order or season voting history.
More winners: Survivor 3 winner Ethan Zohn and Survivor 5 winner Brian Heidik. See every Survivor winner in order.
Survivor: Marquesas is the fourth season of the American reality series, featuring sixteen contestants on the island of Nuku Hiva who faced the first-ever 'purple rock' tie-breaker and the debut of legendary player Rob Mariano.
Day one split the cast into two tribes: Maraamu and Rotu. Everyone here was new to the game, and two of them would go on to play again.
Starting tribes
Full cast & placements
Days, tribes and votes are on each castaway's page.
| Place | Castaway | Result | Days | Tribes | Votes against |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vecepia Towery | 4 of 7 jury votes
| 39 | MaraamuRotuSoliantu | 2 |
| 2 |  Neleh Dennis | 3 of 7 jury votes
| 39 | RotuMaraamuSoliantu | 4 |
| 3 |  Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien Also played S8 | 13th voted out | 38 | RotuMaraamuSoliantu | 5 |
| 4 |  Paschal English | Eliminated | 37 | RotuMaraamuSoliantu | 0 |
| 5 |  Sean Rector | 12th voted out | 36 | MaraamuRotuSoliantu | 7 |
| 6 |  Robert DeCanio | 11th voted out | 33 | RotuSoliantu | 6 |
| 7 |  Tammy Leitner | 10th voted out | 30 | RotuSoliantu | 5 |
| 8 |  Zoe Zanidakis | 9th voted out | 27 | RotuSoliantu | 8 |
| 9 |  John Carroll | 8th voted out | 24 | RotuSoliantu | 8 |
| 10 |  Rob Mariano Also played S8, S20, S22, S40 | 7th voted out | 21 | MaraamuRotuSoliantu | 8 |
| 11 |  Gina Crews | 6th voted out | 18 | Maraamu | 3 |
| 12 |  Gabriel Cade | 5th voted out | 15 | Rotu | 7 |
| 13 |  Sarah Jones | 4th voted out | 12 | Maraamu | 11 |
| 14 |  Hunter Ellis | 3rd voted out | 9 | Maraamu | 4 |
| 15 |  Patricia Jackson | 2nd voted out | 6 | Maraamu | 5 |
| 16 |  Peter Harkey | 1st voted out | 3 | Maraamu | 5 |
Episode guide
All 13 episodes of Survivor 4: when each aired, who won reward and immunity, who left, and how many people watched.
| # | Episode | Aired | Reward | Immunity | Voted out | Viewers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back to the Beach | Feb 28 | – | Rotu | Peter Harkey | 23.2M |
| 2 | Nacho Momma | Mar 7 | Rotu | Rotu | Patricia Jackson | 23.4M |
| 3 | No Pain, No Gain | Mar 13 | Rotu | Rotu | Hunter Ellis | 20.5M |
| 4 | The Winds Twist | Mar 20 | – | Rotu | Sarah Jones | 22.8M |
| 5 | The End of Innocence | Mar 28 | Maraamu | Maraamu | Gabriel Cade | 20.5M |
| 6 | The Underdogs | Apr 4 | Maraamu | Rotu | Gina Crews | 22.2M |
| 7 | True Lies | Apr 11 | – | Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien | Rob Mariano | 19.3M |
| 8 | Jury's Out | Apr 18 | Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien | Tammy Leitner | John Carroll | 19.9M |
| 9 | Two Peas in a Pod | Apr 25 | Paschal English, Sean Rector | Tammy Leitner | Zoe Zanidakis | 19.4M |
| 10 | The Princess | May 2 | Paschal English, Neleh Dennis | – | Tammy Leitner | 19.6M |
| 11 | Marquesan Vacation | May 9 | Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien | Vecepia Towery | Robert DeCanio | 20.8M |
| 12 | A Tale of Two Cities | May 16 | Sean Rector | Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien | Sean Rector | 19.1M |
| 13 | The Sole Survivor | May 19 | – | Vecepia Towery, Neleh Dennis | Paschal English Eliminated Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien | 25.9M |
Survivor 4 also aired 1 recap or special broadcast, which sit outside this numbering.
Episode, twist and location facts adapted from Survivor Fandom and Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-07-21. Licensed CC BY-SA.
Who got the edit
Confessional counts: the to-camera interviews the edit gave each castaway across Survivor 4. A rough proxy for who the season was built around.
- 1 Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien 82
- 2 Sean Rector 54
- 3 Paschal English 48
- 4 Neleh Dennis 39
- 5 Gina Crews 39
- 6 Vecepia Towery 36
- 7 John Carroll 34
- 8 Tammy Leitner 32
- 9 Rob Mariano 32
- 10 Robert DeCanio 28
473 confessionals across the season. Top 10 of 16 castaways shown.
Voting history
Every tribal-council vote of the season. Rows are castaways by finish, columns are councils in order. Each cell is who that castaway voted for.
Key Vote matched the boot Struck through = vote nullified by an idol No vote cast (immune, absent, or already out)
| Voter | Ep 1 Peter 5-2-1 | Ep 2 Patricia 4-3 | Ep 3 Hunter 4-2 | Ep 4 Sarah 4-1 | Ep 5 Gabriel 7-1 | Ep 6 Gina 3-1 | Ep 7 Rob 7-2-1 | Ep 8 John 6-3 | Ep 10 Zoe 7-1 | Ep 11 Tammy 5-2 | Ep 12 Robert 5-1 | Ep 13 Sean 3-2 | Ep 14 Paschal 2-2 | Ep 14 Kathy 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vecepia Towery | Sarah | Patricia | Hunter | Gabriel | Rob | John | Zoe | Tammy | Robert | Neleh | Neleh | |||
| Neleh Dennis | Sarah | Gina | Rob | John | Zoe | Tammy | Robert | Sean | Kathy | Kathy | ||||
| Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien | Sarah | Gina | Zoe | John | Zoe | Tammy | Robert | Sean | Neleh | |||||
| Paschal English | Sarah | Gina | Rob | John | Zoe | Tammy | Robert | Sean | Kathy | |||||
| Sean Rector | Sarah | Patricia | Hunter | Gabriel | John | John | Zoe | Tammy | Robert | Neleh | ||||
| Robert DeCanio | Gabriel | Rob | Sean | Zoe | Vecepia | Sean | ||||||||
| Tammy Leitner | Gabriel | Rob | Sean | Zoe | Vecepia | |||||||||
| Zoe Zanidakis | Gabriel | Rob | John | Robert | ||||||||||
| John Carroll | Gabriel | Rob | Sean | |||||||||||
| Rob Mariano | Peter | Patricia | Hunter | Gabriel | John | |||||||||
| Gina Crews | Peter | Sarah | Sarah | Sarah | Kathy | |||||||||
| Gabriel Cade | Rob | |||||||||||||
| Sarah Jones | Peter | Patricia | Hunter | Kathy | ||||||||||
| Hunter Ellis | Peter | Sarah | Sarah | |||||||||||
| Patricia Jackson | Peter | Sarah | ||||||||||||
| Peter Harkey | Patricia |
See how every season's jury and boot votes compare on the final votes hub.
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