Survivor 42

Survivor 42
Season 42
Region 1 DVD cover
Presented byJeff Probst
No. of days26
No. of castaways18
WinnerMaryanne Oketch
Runner-upMike Turner
LocationMamanuca Islands, Fiji
No. of episodes13
Release
Original networkCBS
Original releaseMarch 9 (2022-03-09) 
May 25, 2022 (2022-05-25)
Additional information
Filming datesMay 16 (2021-05-16) 
June 10, 2021 (2021-06-10)
Season chronology

Survivor 42 is the forty-second season of the American competition television series Survivor. The season premiered on March 9, 2022, on CBS in the United States and Global in Canada. It ended on May 25, 2022, when Maryanne Oketch was voted the Sole Survivor, defeating Mike Turner and Romeo Escobar in a 7–1–0 vote. With her victory, Oketch became the second Canadian castaway to win the game after Erika Casupanan from Survivor 41, the fifth castaway of African descent to win after Vecepia Towery from Survivor: Marquesas, Earl Cole from Survivor: Fiji, Jeremy Collins from Survivor: Cambodia, and Wendell Holland from Survivor: Ghost Island, and the second black female castaway to win after Towery.

Both the 41st and 42nd season of Survivor were originally ordered in May 2020. Production and broadcast of the season were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming occurred in Fiji for the tenth consecutive season during May and June 2021.