Fictional island nations

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This is a list of fictional countries in various media which are said to be located upon islands.

Contents 1 Antarctic 2 Atlantic 3 Caribbean 4 Indian Ocean 5 Mediterranean 6 Pacific 7 Other or uncertain

[edit] Antarctic

• 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 not a country

[edit] Atlantic

• Birdwell Island: de facto independent island community in the Clifford the Big Red Dog series similar in geography and custom to an islands off of the east coast of the United States.
• Fröland: Island in the North Sea in the Dutch TV series Fröland - country?
• Islandia: self-isolated country in Austin Tappan Wright's novel Islandia
• Sahrani: Atlantic island divided into the northern communist Democratic Republic of Sahrani and the oil-rich democratic monarchy of the Kingdom of South Sahrani in the video game Armed Assault

[edit] Caribbean

• Barclay Islands (the Barclays): British-dependent Caribbean archipelago off the Bahamas embroiled in conflict between Castro's Cuba and the drug trade in Frederick Forsyth's novel The Deceiver.
• Booty Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean Sea in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
• Cascara: a tiny Caribbean island in the movie Water
• Cayuna: an imaginary Caribbean island modelled on Jamaica in the novels of John Hearne
• Crab Island: poor Caribbean island shaped like a crab, under the domination of Crocodile Island, in the Patrouille des Castors comics
• 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
• Jambalaya Island: an ex-pirate island in the Caribbean, turned to a tourist attraction center, in Escape from Monkey Island
• Lucre Island: a pirate island in the game, Escape from Monkey Island
• Mêlée Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean Sea, from the Monkey Island games, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
• Phatt Island: an island in the Caribbean in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
• 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)
• Porto Santo: a tiny island nation in Latin America visited by Steve Urkel in the Family Matters episode "South of the Border" (Note: Porto Santo is a real island of Madeira Archipelago)
• Sacramento: a Caribbean Island from Érico Veríssimo's novel, O Senhor Embaixador (The Ambassador), heavily based on Cuba.
• San Lorenzo: a tiny, rocky island nation located in the Caribbean Sea in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
• San Cristobal: a fictional island used in many of the novels of the Barbadian writer George Lamming
• San Marcos (2): Caribbean island from an episode of The A-Team
• San Monique: Caribbean nation run by a drug lord in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die
• Santa Costa: Caribbean island dictatorship from the pilot episode of Mission: Impossible. Appears to lie somewhere between Cuba and the Venezuelan coast on a map seen–briefly–at the start of the episode.
• Scabb Island: an anarchic pirate island in the Caribbean in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
• Skull Island (2): a small pirate island in the Caribbean in the game The Curse of Monkey Island
• St. Virmessa: a small manmade island in the Caribbean off the coast of Great Camanoe
• Tropico: island nation in the Caribbean in the Tropico computer game

[edit] Indian Ocean

• Blefuscu: a land where all the people are tiny from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Enemies of Lilliput
• Genosha: an island nation which was established as a mutant homeland in Marvel Comics
• Houyhnhnms Land: a land where horses rule. The animalistic human-like creatures in this land are called Yahoos. From the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
• Ishkebar: small island nation between India and Thailand from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody TV series, episode "Boston Holiday"
• Javasu: an island in the Indian Ocean, the alleged country of "Princess Caraboo"
• Lilliput: a land where all the people are tiny from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Pala: island utopia in Aldous Huxley's Island
• Saint Georges Island: an island nation located somewhere in the Arabian Sea. It was the centrepoint of the episode A Victory for Democracy from the sitcom, Yes, Prime Minister.
• Skull Island: from King Kong movie(s)
• Taprobane: a country described as "about ninety percent congruent with the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)" from Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise

[edit] Mediterranean

• Al Amarja: Mediterranean island state in the Over the Edge roleplaying game
• Barataria: island kingdom, presumably somewhere in the Mediterranean. The setting for Act II of the operetta The Gondoliers, by Gilbert and Sullivan.
• Mervo: an island principality in the Mediterranean in the novel The Prince and Betty by P. G. Wodehouse
• Mypos: island nation around the Greek isles, home of Balki from Perfect Strangers
• Pathos: neighbor of Mypos, part of a different Tri-Island Area in Perfect Strangers
• Skeptos: neighbor of Mypos, part of a different Tri-Island Area in Perfect Strangers

[edit] Pacific

• Baki: homeland of Omio in Madeleine L'Engle's writing, a small Pacific island nation once dominated by British
• Balnibarbi: land containing the metropolis called Lagado from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Bensalem: utopian island nation located somewhere off the Western coast of the continent of America from Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis
• Caspak: a huge island country located in the South seas somewhere between South America and Australia from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot and its sequels
• Eleutheria: an island nation in the Southwest Pacific Ocean from the Eleutheria Model Parliament role playing game.
• Glubbdubdrib: an island governed by a tribe of magicians. About one third the size of the Isle of Wight. From the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
• Gondal: imaginary country from the poems of Brontë sisters, characterized as an island in the North Pacific Ocean.
• Kinakuta (Queenah-Kootah): island state from Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle
• Luggnagg: an island state about 100 leagues SE from Japan. From the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
• Patusan: an island nation somewhere in the South China Sea in the movie Surf Ninjas as well as in the film The Last Electric Knight and the TV series Sidekicks. Also mentioned in Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. ????
• Taka-Tuka-Land: Astrid Lindgren's book about Pippi Longstocking mentions a travel to this country in the third book of the series. Pippi's father was a king there in the South Sea.
• Toga Toga Islands: South Pacific island nation featured on The A-Team
• Vanutu: a tiny South Pacific nation comprised of four atolls from the novel State of Fear by Michael Crichton

[edit] Other or uncertain

• Aquabania: an idyllic island, the supposed home of The Aquabats
• Bright Island: Believed to be off the North-west coast of Australia, mysterious goings on are observed in series one of Sea Patrol (TV series)
• Cacklogallinia: a kingdom off the coast of South America, from A Voyage to Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt
• Cap'D'Far: a small island country from an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King who's only export was fish bones
• Dinotopia: a hidden, utopian island from James Gurney's illustrated books
• Flyspeck Island: home of Gunk in the comic strip Curtis -- country?
• Huella Islands: islands off the coast of Cayenne, mentioned in the Hardy Boys books. They are ruled by dictator Juan Posada and their "spy chief" is named Bedoya. The adjective is Huellan.
• Istan: an island state in the online role-playing game, Guild Wars Nightfall
• Malevelosia: an island kingdom filled with supervillains in Justice Squad
• Mardi archipelago: from Herman Melville's Mardi and a Voyage Thither
• Mesa de Oro: unstable Latin American island in the Three Young Investigators series. (The name means "golden table" in Spanish.)
• Nollop: island state from the novel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• San Cristobel: tropical island country in The Guiding Light TV series, also the name for a separate fictional nation in the TV series Automan
• San Esperito: South American island nation from the video game Just Cause. Translated in English means "St. espionage".
• San Seriffe: Fictional island nation featured in an elaborate April Fools Day hoax on 1 April 1977 in the British newspaper The Guardian. These islands have been reported at several different locations around the globe since 1977.
• Pokoponesia: island nation from the animated version of The Tick
• Sodor: Island on which Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends by Rev. W. Awdry are based. Located in the Irish Sea next to the Isle of Man

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