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* '''Tingle Island''':, home of [[Tingle]] in the [[Nintendo Gamecube]] Game ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]]'' |
* '''Tingle Island''':, home of [[Tingle]] in the [[Nintendo Gamecube]] Game ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]]'' |
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* '''[[Themyscira]]''': in the [[Wonder Woman]] comics. |
* '''[[Themyscira]]''': in the [[Wonder Woman]] comics. |
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* '''[[Tracy Island]]''': an island in the TV series ''[[Thunderbirds (TV series)|Thunderbirds]]'' |
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* '''[[Treasure Island]]''': the island from the classic novel by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]. The map of the island in the book is probably based on [[Unst]] in [[Shetland]], which Stevenson visited.<ref>[http://www.unst.org/ Unst island website]</ref> |
* '''[[Treasure Island]]''': the island from the classic novel by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]. The map of the island in the book is probably based on [[Unst]] in [[Shetland]], which Stevenson visited.<ref>[http://www.unst.org/ Unst island website]</ref> |
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* '''Tsalal''': an island in the novel ''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket|The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym]]'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and its sequel ''[[An Antarctic Mystery]]'' by [[Jules Verne]] |
* '''Tsalal''': an island in the novel ''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket|The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym]]'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and its sequel ''[[An Antarctic Mystery]]'' by [[Jules Verne]] |
Revision as of 16:21, 23 July 2008
Below is a list of islands that have been invented for films, literature, television, or other media.
Named
- Absolom: a prison island in the movie Escape from Absolom
- Al Amarja: Mediterranean island state in the Over the Edge roleplaying game
- Altruria: from the novel A Traveler from Altruria by William Dean Howells
- Amity Island: from the book and film Jaws
- Angel Island: the primary location of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games
- Ape Atoll: from RuneScape role-playing game
- Atlantis: from the dialogues Timaeus and Critias by Plato
- Atoll K: from Laurel and Hardy's last movie
- Azkaban: island prison in the Harry Potter series
- Bahavia: a parody of Bavaria where the Paroom family e.g Meena Paroom come from in the disney channel original series Cory in the House
- Balamb Island: from Final Fantasy VIII
- Battle Frontier: from Pokemon Emerald
- Benne Seed Island: an island off the coast of South Carolina near Charleston, where Polly O'Keefe and her family live in several novels by Madeleine L'Engle
- Bensalem: from The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
- Besaid: from Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2
- Bikanel: from Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2
- Blefuscu: from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Booty Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
- Brobdingnag: from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- C island: from Startropics nintendo game
- Cactuar Island: from Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII
- Cairn Isle: from RuneScape role-playing game
- Carlotta: small island off the coast of Peru in the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
- Castaway Island: where the castaways live in Pirate Islands
- Clanbronwyn: a small island off the coast of Anglesey in the adventure game Trilby's Notes
- Coral Island: from the boy's book by R. M. Ballantyne
- Corto Maltese: from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns comics
- Crab Island: poor Caribbean island shaped like a crab, under the domination of Crocodile Island, in the Patrouille des Castors comics
- Crab Island: an island in the Caribbean Sea, from the children's novel Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome
- Crab Key: Dr. No's hideout in the first James Bond movie.
- Craggy Island (off the coast of Ireland): setting of sitcom Father Ted
- Crandor: from RuneScape role-playing game
- Crocodile Island: Caribbean island shaped like a crocodile, with a dictatorial government which seems to be heavily influenced by Tahiti, in the Patrouille des Castors comics
- Crusoeland: another name for Atoll K
- Dargenk Island: the island holding the Falok Empire's base.
- Dazhi Island: from the novel The Return of the Condor Heroes by Jinyong
- Deist: from Final Fantasy II
- Destiny Islands: from the video game Kingdom Hearts
- Dinotopia
- Dolphin Island: (off Australia) in the novel by Arthur C. Clarke
- Dragon Roost Island: from the Nintendo Gamecube Game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Dragon, Tiger & Turtle Islands: in the children's novel Missee Lee by Arthur Ransome
- Easter Island: from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the fact it shares a name with Earth's Easter Island is a meaningless coincidence)
- Egret Island: from the novel The Mermaid Chair
- Entrana: from RuneScape role-playing game
- Eureka: from the movie Eureka
- Fantasy Island
- Finnigan Island: the island where John Patterson and one of his friends washed up on during a big storm in the 1999 cartoon of For Better Or For Worse
- Gaea: an island off the coast of Portugal in the novel The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle, named for the Greek "Earth Mother" goddess Gaea
- Genosha: from Marvel Comics
- Gilligan's Island
- Grand Nixon Island: from Marvel Comics
- Gravett Island, the destination of escape pods from the Enterprise E starship in the movie Star Trek: First Contact.
- Great Todday (Todaidh Mór): island in the Hebrides, companion of Little Todday in the novel Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
- Haleakaloa: island in French Polynesia in the movie Donovan's Reef
- Hi-aiy: where Rhinogrades once lived
- Huella Islands: islands off the coast of Cayenne, mentioned in the Hardy Boys books. They are ruled by a dictator, Juan Posada and their "spy chief" is named Bedoya. The adjective is Huellan.
- Ice and Fire Island: from the novel The Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Saber by Jinyong
- L'île aux Enfants: from the French TV show L'île aux Enfants
- Indian Island: from Agathe Christie's novel And Then There Were None
- The Island of Dr. Moreau: novel by H.G. Wells
- The Island of Time: from the video game Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
- Isla Cruces: the island where Davy Jones' heart was kept in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Isla de Muerta: the island where Captain Barbossa and his crew hid their gold at in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, starring Johnny Depp
- Island of Domination: Subject of a Judas Priest song from their album Sad Wings of Destiny.
- Isla Nublar: site of InGen's Jurassic Park
- Isla Sorna: site of InGen's "Site B" (The Lost World and Jurassic Park III)
- Isle Delfino: setting of Super Mario Sunshine
- Isle de Gambino: an island town from the online community Gaia Online
- Jambalaya Island: an ex-pirate island in the Caribbean, turned to a tourist attraction center, in the game Escape from Monkey Island
- Javasu: an island in the Indian Ocean, the alleged country of "Princess Caraboo"
- Karamja: from RuneScape role-playing game
- Keelhaul Key: from the video game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- Kilika: from Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2
- Kinakuta: island state in Southeast Asia of Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon. Compare Queena-Kootah in Neal Stephenson's novel The Confusion
- Kitchen Island: from the Wario Land series
- Koholint Island: from the video game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
- ""Kokovoko"" from the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick (Queequeq is from Kokovoko)
- Krawk Island: an island in Neopia
- Lapak: from the novel Alaska by James A. Michener
- Lavalava Island: from the video game Paper Mario
- Leshp: from Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- Liberty City: from the Grand Theft Auto series
- Lilliput: from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Lincoln Island: from Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island
- Lingshe Island: in the novel The Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Saber by Jinyong
- Little Todday (Todaidh Beag): an island in the Hebrides, companion of Great Todday in the novel Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
- LOST Island: The Island that the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 crash on in LOST
- Lucre Island: a pirate island in the game Escape from Monkey Island
- Lutari Island: an island in Neopia
- Mallet Island: from Devil May Cry
- Mardi archipelago: from Herman Melville's Mardi and a Voyage Thither
- Mata Nui: from Bionicle
- Mêlée Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean the Monkey Island games, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
- Membata: The Island on LOST that the Oceanic 6 claim to have crashed on.
- Metru Nui: from Bionicle
- Moahu: island in the Pacific encountered in Patrick O'Brian's novels, The Wine-Dark Sea and The Truelove
- Moesko Island: from the movie The Ring
- Monsterland / Monster Island: from the Godzilla series
- Muir Island: from Marvel Comics
- Mypos: Greek island homeland of Balki Bartokomous in Perfect Strangers
- Myst: from the adventure computer game Myst
- Mystery Island: an island in Neopia
- Neverland: an island that apparently exists outside of time, as its inhabitants never age or die, from the Peter Pan books and movies
- N. Sanity Island: the home of Crash Bandicoot in the video game of the same title
- Isle of Naboombu: kingdom of anthropomorphic animals in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Nomanisan Island: widely accepted term for the island in The Incredibles
- Nontoonyt Island: from the adventure computer game Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)
- Númenor: home of the Dúnedain before their downfall in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
- Okishima Island: from the novel Battle Royale by Koushun Takami and the film Battle Royale by Kinji Fukasaku
- Olympus: an artificial island nation, run by genetic modified humans and advanced technology, Appleseed manga
- Orange Islands: an extensive island chain consisting of various active islands, Pokemon anime
- Outset Island:, the home of Link in the Nintendo Gamecube Game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Oxbay: a small colony island in Pirates of the Caribbean video game
- Pala: island utopia in Aldous Huxley's Island
- Peacock Island: the legendary island the deranged Major Lebedeen wants to escape to in One of the Guys by Robert Clark Young
- Pescepada Island: from the movie The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- Phatt Island: an island in the Caribbean in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
- Ping Islands: from the movie The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- Plunder Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean in the game The Curse of Monkey Island, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
- Pokoponesia: island nation from the animated version of The Tick
- Prawn Island: from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- Qwghlm: a pair of British islands in the novels of Neal Stephenson
- R'lyeh: The home of Cthulhu in H. P. Lovecraft's fiction
- Rockfort Island: from the video game Resident Evil Code: Veronica
- Roo Island: an island in Neopia
- Round Island: from Final Fantasy VII
- Rugged Island: from the sitcom Father Ted, next door to Craggy Island
- San Andreas: from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas(Allso is a REAL Island ownd by Columbia)
- San Esperito: from the video game Just Cause
- San Lorenzo: the setting for much of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle
- San Piedro Island, Washington: from the novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
- San Serriffe: April Fools Day joke, The Guardian
- Sand Island: From Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
- Scabb Island: an anarchic pirate island in the Caribbean in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
- Seven Bay Island: an island off the coast of the Northeastern United States, in the Austin family series of books by Madeleine L'Engle. Setting of the novel A Ring of Endless Light.
- Sevii Islands: a region in the fictional Pokémon universe, introduced in the Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen video games
- Shadow Moses Island: from Metal Gear Solid video game
- Sheena Island: from the movie Resident Evil: Survivor
- Ship-Trap Island: the setting of Richard Connell's story The Most Dangerous Game
- Skull Island: the island King Kong is from, also a duck-shaped island in the computergame The Curse of Monkey Island
- Island of Sodor: between England and the Isle of Man, the setting for the Reverend Awdry's Thomas the Tank Engine railway network managed by "The Fat Controller"
- Starfish Island: from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- Sula: a Scottish island featuring in an eponymous series of children's books by Lavinia Derwent
- Summerisle: a fictional Hebridean island and the setting of Robin Hardy's movie The Wicker Man (1973 film)
- Summerset Isle: the homeland of the High Elves from Bethesda's Softworks' The Elder Scrolls
- Swallow, Flint, Mango & Mastodon Islands: in the children's novel Secret Water by Arthur Ransome
- Tabor Island: from Jules Verne's novel In Search of the Castaways
- Telv Uljamue Floating Islands: the islands that held Zurrchu Eamda's base that was destroyed by Caleb Hill in the New Era series
- The Island: The Island that the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 crash on in LOST
- Tinda Lau: an island in the South Pacific, northeast of Australia, featured in the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Tingle Island:, home of Tingle in the Nintendo Gamecube Game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Themyscira: in the Wonder Woman comics.
- Tracy Island: an island in the TV series Thunderbirds
- Treasure Island: the island from the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The map of the island in the book is probably based on Unst in Shetland, which Stevenson visited.[1]
- Tsalal: an island in the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe and its sequel An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne
- Tutorial Island: from RuneScape role-playing game
- Utopia: from Sir Thomas More's book Utopia
- Vanutu: from the novel State of Fear by Michael Crichton
- Vice City: from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Villings: from The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Volcano Island: from The Replacements. An animated series.
- Voya Nui: another fictional Bionicle island
- Vvardenfell: the setting for the computer game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Waponi Wu: from the movie Joe Versus the Volcano
- West Xylophone: from the They Might be Giants song "Alphabet of Nations"
- Wild Cat Island: in the children's novel Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- Windfall Island: from the Nintendo Gamecube Game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Yoshi's Island
- Zandia: home of Brother Blood and "safe harbor" for supervillains in Teen Titans and other DC Comics titles
Unnamed
- The island in "The Isle of Missing Ships", somewhere in the South Pacific, by Seabury Quinn.
- The island on which the plane crashed in the television series, Lost.
- The island in Brave New World
- The island in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
- The island in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Outer Hebrides island in the children's novel Great Northern? by Arthur Ransome
- The islands in the novels, films and TV shows called Castaway
- The island in the PC and Game Boy Advance video game Backyard Football 2006
- The island in the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon.