Dinky Island

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The four pieces of the map to Dinky Island, as seen in the second game.

Dinky Island is a small island believed to be the hiding-place of the legendary treasure of Big Whoop in the Monkey Island series of adventure-games. It is a small tropical island inhabited by Herman Toothrot in MI2 who has started to teach philosophy on the beach. Dinky Island is also home to much exotic topiary, thought to be created by Herman Toothrot.

As it was retconned in later games, Dinky Island exists just off the coast of Monkey Island. Dinky and Monkey are connected by a series of tunnels. Big Whoop is in truth the name of the Carnival of the Damned on Monkey Island and the same gates of hell that LeChuck passed through before he died.

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• It is somewhat controversial whether MI2 actually ends on Dinky or Monkey Island.
• There is also a bit of a continuity issue regarding the over-all location of the Big Whoop -gate and LeChuck's transformation in to a ghost.
• None of the characters in MI2 spell the name of the island correctly suggesting that Dinky is fairly unknown.
• Dinky Island's location (to the east from Monkey) has also caused some continuity issues regarding the backstory of LeChuck and Horatio Torquemada Marley, since Monkey Island is often featured as being located South-East from the rest of the Tri-Island Area.