List of fictional islands
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Below is a list of islands that have been invented for films, literature, television, or other media.
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[edit] Named
[edit] A
- The Abarat: 25 islands in an archipelago, one for each hour and one for all the hours, from the series The Books of Abarat by Clive Barker
- Absolom: a prison island in the movie Escape from Absolom
- Aepyornis Island: an atoll near Madagascar, in H. G. Wells' story by that name.
- Al Amarja: Mediterranean island state in the Over the Edge roleplaying game
- Alabasta: An island controlled by Crocodile in the OnePiece manga series
- Alca/Penguin Island: an island off the northern shore of Europe, where penguins were transformed into humans (in fact, a satirical analogue of France) in the 1908 novel L'île des Pingouins by Anatole France.
- Altruria: from the novel A Traveler from Altruria by William Dean Howells
- Amity Island: from the book and film Jaws
- Angel Island: a major location in the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games
- Angel Island: an island in the Pacific Ocean in Inez Haynes Gillmore's novel of the same name
- Ape Island: from The Simpsons
- Atlantis: from the dialogues Timaeus and Critias by Plato
- Atoll K: from Laurel and Hardy's last movie
- August Bank Hoilday Island: a fictional Commonwealth nation featured in the Goodies, found 'between Easter Island and Chirstmas Island'. In the Commonwealth Games, August Bank Holiday Island won and took over the Commonwealth Nations.
- Avalon from Arthurian legend
- Azkaban: island prison in the Harry Potter series
[edit] B
- Back Cup: a fictional island in the Bahamas, hideout of the pirate Ker Karraje in Jules Verne's novel Facing the Flag.
- 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
- Balfe: the island setting on the 1972 movie Doomwatch
- Bali Ha'i: the mysterious island in South Pacific and Tales of the South Pacific
- Balamb Island: from Final Fantasy VIII
- Battle Frontier: from Pokémon 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 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
- Binghuo Island (literally: Ice and Fire Island): from the wuxia novel The Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Saber by Jin Yong
- Blackhawk Island: Secret base of the Blackhawks during World War II and beyond.
- Island of the Blue Dolphins: (based on San Nicolas Island) from the book by Scott O'Dell.
- 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)
- Britannula: setting of the novel The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
[edit] C
- C Island: from the Nintendo game StarTropics
- Cactuar Island: from Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII
- Candy Apple Island: The Simpsons
- Candied Island: The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
- Caprona, a.k.a. Caspak: from The Land That Time Forgot and its sequels
- Carlotta: small island off the coast of Peru in the movie The Bribe, reused to comic effect in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
- Caspiar: fictional island nation home of Andy Kaufman's character Latka. It sank.
- Cascara: main setting of the film Water
- Castaway Island: where the castaways live in Pirate Islands
- Chausible Island: from the novel The New Paul and Virginia
- Cinnabar Island: The site of the seventh Gym in the Nintendo Gameboy game, Pokémon Red and Blue.
- 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
- Costa Estralita: from the film Princess Protection Program
- Costa Luna: from the film Princess Protection Program
- 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
- Crescent Island: a crescent-shaped island in the video game Final Fantasy IV
- 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
[edit] D
- 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
- Delfino Isle: from the Nintendo Gamecube game Super Mario Sunshine
- Destiny Islands: from the video game Kingdom Hearts
- Devon Island: from James A. Michener's novel Chesapeake
- Dinobot Island: The Transformers
- Dinosaur Island: The island where the Dinosaurs live (DC Comics).
- 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 and Turtle Islands: in the children's novel Missee Lee by Arthur Ransome
- Drum Kingdom An island in the OnePiece manga series where Chopper joins the crew
[edit] E
- Easter Island: from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the fact that it shares a name with Earth's Easter Island is a meaningless coincidence)
- Egret Island: from the novel The Mermaid Chair
- The El Nido Archipelago: Setting of the game Chrono Cross
- Eureka: from the movie Eureka
- Executive Bathroom Island: from the Family Guy episode Tales of a Third Grade Nothing
- Esme: from the novel Breaking Dawn
- Equestria
[edit] F
- 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
- Flyspeck Island: from Curtis
- Forsaken Fortress: An island in the Nintendo Gamecube game, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
- Fibber Island - A made up island in a They Might Be Giants song.
[edit] G
- 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
- Gaea's Navel: an island in the video game Chrono Cross
- Galuga Island: setting of the video games Contra and Contra IV
- Ganae: a Caribbean island in the novel No Other Life by Brian Moore
- Genosha: from Marvel Comics
- Gengoro Island: from Dr. Slump
- Gilligan's Island
- Grand Nixon Island: from Marvel Comics
- Gravett Island, the destination of escape pods from the USS 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
- Greatfish Isle: An island in the Nintendo Gamecube game, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
- Gullah Gullah Island in the TV series of the same name
[edit] H
- Haleakaloa: island in French Polynesia in the movie Donovan's Reef
- Harper's Island: Setting of the CBS horror/mystery series Harper's Island
- Haunted Isle: Setting of the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Hassle in the Castle"
- Hedeby: Island in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book by Stieg Larsson, where Harriet Vanger disappeared
- Hili-li Island: an inhabited island near the South Pole in the novel A Strange Discovery by Charles Romeyn Dake. It is south of Tsalal.
- Hi-yi-yi: where Rhinogrades once lived
- Hippo Island: island in the South Pacific, of which King Hippo of the Punch Out!! series of video games is chief
- Hoenn
- Horai Island: a Chinese-owned artificial island used to generate hydroelectric power in the anime series Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, which later becomes the home base of the Black Knights.
- Huella Islands: footprint-shaped 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.
- Hydra Island: The second smaller Island off the coast of the main one in LOST
[edit] I
- Itchy Island: from the American TV Cartoon Camp Lazlo
- 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
- Island Closest to Heaven: from the Square Enix video game Final Fantasy VIII
- Island Closest to Hell: from the Square Enix video game Final Fantasy VIII
- 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
- Isla Los Organos: the location of the gene therapy clinic in Die Another Day, where Bond finds Zao.
- Island of Domination: Subject of a Judas Priest song from their album Sad Wings of Destiny.
- The Island: setting of the TV series Lost
- Isla de Cinco Muerte: setting of William Kennedy's novel Dark Africa, Where Bio-Tech's experiments took place. Given a Spanish name by locals.
- 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
- Isle Esme: a series of islands from Breaking Dawn by Stephenie meyer.
- Isle of the Damned: an island from the video game Chrono Cross
- Isle of Perpetual Tickling: an island from the Veggietales episode Esther, the Girl Who Became Queen
- Iwako Island: A fictional island used in marketing by the Iwako Co.; the mystical place of origin of their animal shaped erasers.
[edit] J
- 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"
- Johto
[edit] K
- Kanto: from the Pokémon franchise
- Karamja: from the online video game RuneScape
- 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
- Kirrin Island: in the Famous Five children's books by Enid Blyton
- 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)
- Koo Koo Island: an island in the West Indies briefly mentioned in Carry On at Your Convenience
- Krawk Island: an island in Neopia
[edit] L
- Lapak: from the novel Alaska by James A. Michener
- Lavalava Island: from the video game Paper Mario
- Lea Monde: from the video game Vagrant Story
- Leap Islands: from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper
- LEGO Island: from the video games LEGO Island and LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge.
- Leshp: from Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- Lilliput: from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Lincoln Island: from Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island
Map of "Lincoln Island" from 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
- Lucre Island: a pirate island in the game Escape from Monkey Island
- Lutari Island: an island in Neopia
[edit] M
- Magarabee Island : from Island of The Scottish Soldier by Flaherty o'Keefe - (Elite Publishing House Taiwan (2006)
- Mako Island ; A Pacific island off Australia H2O Just Add Water
- Mallet Island: from Devil May Cry
- Maple Island: is an island from MapleStory where beginners start and train before leaving to Victoria Island..
- Mardi archipelago: from Herman Melville's Mardi and a Voyage Thither
- Mata Nui: from Bionicle
- Matool: from Zombi 2
- 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
- Milk Island, a brand of milk frothing accessories for Saeco and Gaggia coffee makers.[1]
- Moahu: island in the Pacific encountered in Patrick O'Brian's novels, The Wine-Dark Sea and The Truelove
- 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
- Moesko Island: island from The Ring by Gore Verbinski
[edit] N
- Nathan Island as well as Little Nathan : The main islands forming The Kingdom of Nathan.
- Navarone, fictional Greek Island in "The Guns of Navarone (novel)" and the film based on it
- Nepenthe, in the 1917 novel South Wind, located off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea - in fact a thinly fictionalized Capri
- Neri's Island: Neri's home in Ocean Girl
- Neverland: an island that apparently exists outside of time, as its inhabitants never age or die, from the Peter Pan books and movies
- New America: an island northwest of Greenland in The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
- 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
- Nigger Island in "Ten Little Niggers" by Agatha Christie (in later editions the name was changed to "Indian Island" or "Soldier Island").
- 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)
- Nowhere Island: Setting of Mother 3
- Númenor: home of the Dúnedain before their downfall in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
[edit] O
- 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
- Oracle Island: a paradimensional island that connects Earth, in our universe, to Areo in the universe 'Xejjaszuh', via the Bermuda Triangle, in The Turbulence Series.
- Orange Islands: an extensive island chain consisting of various active islands, Pokémon anime
- Otter Island: a sentient island from Oren Otter's multimedia series Otter Island
- 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
[edit] P
- Pala: island utopia in Aldous Huxley's Island
- Panau: from Just Cause 2
- Papuwa Island: From Papuwa
- Paradise Island (later known as Themyscira): in the Wonder Woman comics.
- Parrot Island The Suite Life on Deck
- 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
- Pharmaul: a large island five hundred miles off the south west coast of Africa in "The Tribe That Lost Its Head"[2] and "Richer Than All His Tribe" by Nicholas Monsarrat.
- 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
- Panau: an island nation from Just Cause 2
[edit] Q
- Qwghlm: a pair of British islands in the novels of Neal Stephenson
[edit] R
- Ramita de la Baya: "Twig in the Bay" a small island dividing America and Mexico in Red Dead Redemption
- R'lyeh: home of Cthulhu in H. P. Lovecraft's fiction
- Riten Kyo: from the video game Samurai Shodown Warrior's Rage 2
- Rockfort Island: from the video game Resident Evil Code: Veronica
- Roke Island: the wizard school in the Earthsea trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Roo Island: an island in Neopia
- Round Island: from the video game Final Fantasy VII
- Rugged Island: from the sitcom Father Ted, next door to Craggy Island
[edit] S
- Saint Marie: a fictional Caribbean island featured in Death in Paradise. It is implied that the island is either a British protectorate or a Crown Colony.
- Saint Honoré: a fictional Caribbean island featured in Agatha Christie's novel A Caribbean Mystery
- San Esperito: an island nation from Just Cause
- San Lorenzo: the setting for much of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle
- San Monique: the setting of the James Bond film Live and Let Die
- 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 the video game Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
- Scabb Island: an anarchic pirate island in the Caribbean in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
- Scheria: island in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus meets Nausicca and Alcinous.
- Seal Island: The Suite Life on Deck
- 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 game Resident Evil Survivor
- Ship-Trap Island: the setting of Richard Connell's story The Most Dangerous Game
- Shutter Island: the setting of the movie, directed by Martin Scorsese, entitled Shutter Island
- Sinnoh
- Skira: an island near China and Russia that is occupied by the People's Liberation Army in the game Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
- Skull Island: the island King Kong is from, also a duck-shaped island in the computergame The Curse of Monkey Island
- Sky Island: a flying island, setting for Sky Island by L. Frank Baum
- 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"
- Southern Mauristemo Islands: an internet hoax
- Spidermonkey Island: a floating island in Hugh Lofting's The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
- Spoon Island: home of Wyndemere Castle, across the harbor of Port Charles, New York (fictional city), fictional island on the soap opera General Hospital.
- 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
- Sunda: a former Dutch colony, neightboring Indonesia but not part of it, in Eric Ambler's "State of Siege" (the name "Sunda" has many real-life connotations, but is not in reality the name of one specific island)
- Spider-Skull Island: from The Venture Bros.
- Summerisle: a fictional Hebridean island and the setting of Robin Hardy's movie The Wicker Man
- Summerset Isle: the homeland of the High Elves from Bethesda's Softworks' The Elder Scrolls
- Struay: a fictional Hebridean island, the setting of the Katie Morag series of picturebooks by Mairi Hedderwick
- Swallow, Flint, Mango & Mastodon Islands: in the children's novel Secret Water by Arthur Ransome
[edit] T
- Tabor Island: from Jules Verne's novel In Search of the Castaways
- Tanetane Island: an island in the video game Mother 3
- Tatsumiya Island: from Fafner of the Azure
- 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
- The Isles of Syren: The islands on which Septimus, Jenna, and Beetle are trapped on when Spit Fyre breaks his tail in Septimus Heap book five: Syren
- 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.
- Tom Sawyer's Island: the island in the Mississippi River on which Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn live for a few days in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 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.[3]
- 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
[edit] U
- Uffa: mentioned in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Five Orange Pips"
- Unova
- Utopia: from Sir Thomas More's book of the same name
- Uncharted Island: an uncharted island from Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
[edit] V
- Vanutu: from the novel State of Fear by Michael Crichton
- 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
[edit] W
- W Island: from the novel W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
- Waponi Wu: from the movie Joe Versus the Volcano
- 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
[edit] Y
- Yew: setting for The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum
- Yoshi's Island
[edit] Z
- Zandia: home of Brother Blood and "safe harbor" for supervillains in Teen Titans and other DC Comics titles
- Zolon: in the Novarian series, an island thalassocracy ruled by a High Admiral.
- Zoombini Isle: The origin of the Zoombinis, featured in the Logical Journey PC puzzle game
[edit] Unnamed
- The island, somewhere in the South Pacific, in "The Isle of Missing Ships" by Seabury Quinn
- The island in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The island in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The island in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The island, a few hundred miles off the coast of Liberia, in "The Island of Five Colors" by Martin Gardner
- 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 and its 1991 sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon (called "Palm Tree Island" in the novel)
- The island in Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (unnamed, but specified as being part of the Cook Islands, near Raratonga)
- The Island of Zombie Women, in the song by The 3-D Invisibles[4] (as covered by The Horatii[5])
- The island, which was the location of the Fountain of Youth, in the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
[edit] See also
- Phantom island
- List of fictional locations in the Godzilla films (includes nine islands)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.gaggia.com/macchine-da-caffe.asp?macchine-per-espresso-automatiche_127_Milk-Island-Accessory
- ^ http://www.goldringbooks.com/?page=shop/browse&offset=80&fsb=&category_id=37&featured=&keyword=&searchby=&CLSN_1719=12468988331719603b432cd7f936b849
- ^ Unst island website
- ^ "3-D Discography". http://www.nestorindetroit.com/3D%20Invisibles/3d_discography.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ die Spinne, Fritz. "An Unlikely Pairing: Island of Zombie Women". http://fritzdiesspinne.blogspot.com/2007/03/unlikely-pairing-island-of-zombie-women.html. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
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