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Encyclopedia > Monkey Island

Monkey Island may refer to the following:

  • Monkey Island series, a series of computer adventure games
  • 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, North Carolina, 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.[1]
  • 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, Puerto Rico; also a name sometimes used for Mona Island, Puerto Rico
  • 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 area that used to be in the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco California 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.
  • Monkey Island, An island located in the woodland area of Coltness, Wishaw. [2]

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Monkey Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (410 words)
Monkey Island, Bray, an island in the River Thames
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, an island in the Grand Lake of the Cherokee in northeast Oklahoma.
Monkey Island series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (0 words)
Monkey Island is the collective name given to a series of four graphical point-and-click adventure games produced and published by LucasArts, originally known as LucasFilm Games through the development of the first two games in the series.
The main islands of the Tri-Island Area are Mêlée Island, Booty Island, and Plunder Island, which are all ruled by Governor Elaine Marley in place of her long lost grandfather, Horatio Torquemada Marley.
Monkey Island: Though this is not made apparent until near the end of the third game.
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