Monkey Island

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Monkey Island may refer to the following:

• Monkey Island series, a series of computer adventure games
  • The Secret of Monkey Island, the original
  • Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, the second part
  • The Curse of Monkey Island, the third part
  • Escape from Monkey Island, the fourth part
  • Monkey Island (island), the titular island of the Monkey Island game series
• Monkey Island, Yokosuka, Japan. A historic island fort. Monkey Island is the english translation of Sarushima (猿島), most commonly used by American sailors stationed at Yokosuka Naval base.
• Monkey Island, Bray, an island in the River Thames
• [Monkey Island][1] is a remote, natural island located in Currituck Sound, North Carolina. The island was once the site of the Monkey Island Hunting Club, which remains standing today. Approximately half of the island is forested and has long supported a large colony of wading birds.
• Monkey Island (album), an album by the J. Geils Band released in 1977
• "Monkey Island", the name that is traditionally assigned to relatively small islands in the inland water lakes of Wisconsin. The origin of the name relates back to the cement island that monkeys inhabitated in the Vilas Park Zoo in Madison, Wisconsin. The island was surrounded by a water that featured seals. The small island visible as state highway 51 crosses the Manitowish chain of lakes (across from Greer's pier) is the original monkey island, so-named in the 1960s during trips to the old gangster hideout, Little Bohemia, of John Dillinger shoot-out fame.
• "Monkey Island", a nautical term for a ship's upper bridge; see brass monkey
• Monkey Island, a song from the 13th Floor Elevators' debut album
• Monkey Island, Cayo Santiago in Puerto Rico has a free ranging population of Rhesus monkeys. The monkeys are offspring of an original group of 500 that were used for scientific research in the 1930's. Today the island serves as a research center for the University of Puerto Rico and the National Institute of Health.
• Monkey Island, A division of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland Ohio where monkeys were kept outside with no cages or walls on an island.
• Monkey Island, an island in the Grand Lake of the Cherokee in northeast Oklahoma. Primarily a resort area, there are no wild monkeys on Oklahoma's Monkey Island.