Melemele Island

Melemele Island メレメレ島 Melemele Island "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
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Location:	Northwest Alola
Region:	Alola
Generations:	VII
Location of Melemele Island in Alola.
Pokémon world locations

Melemele Island (Japanese: メレメレ島 Melemele Island) is the northwestern of the four major islands of Alola. Tapu Koko is the island's guardian deity.

Trials

Melemele Island has one trial for the island challenge, leading to a grand trial with Hala.

Trial Captain Japanese	Location Japanese	Type	Totem Pokémon	Ally Pokémon
Ilima イリマ Ilima	Verdant Cavern 茂みの洞窟 Verdant Cavern	Normal	GumshoosS	YungoosS
			Alolan RaticateM	Alolan RattataM

Grand trial

Island Kahuna Japanese	Location Japanese	Type
Hala ハラ Hala	Iki Town リリィタウン Liliʻi Town	Fighting

Locations on Melemele Island

• Route 1
  • Ten Carat Hill
• Melemele Sea
• Iki Town
  • Mahalo Trail
  • Ruins of Conflict
• Hau'oli City
• Route 2
  • Hau'oli Cemetery
  • Berry fields
  • Verdant Cavern
• Route 3
  • Melemele Meadow
  • Seaward Cave
  • Kala'e Bay

Anime-exclusive locations

• Clawmark Hill
• Pokémon School

In the anime

Melemele Island serves as the main setting for the Sun & Moon series, due to it being the location of the Pokémon School. It is first introduced in Alola to New Adventure!, where Ash and his mother Delia arrive to deliver a Pokémon Egg to Samson Oak. While there, Ash finds out about the Pokémon School, and decides to stay behind and attend it, while learning that the island's guardian deity, Tapu Koko, has taken a special interest in him.

Origin

Melemele Island's real-life counterpart is the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Golden yellow is the island's official color and the ʻIlima is its official flower.

Name origin

Melemele is Hawaiian for yellow.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 美樂美樂島 Méihlohkméihlohk Dóu Mandarin 美樂美樂島 / 美乐美乐岛 Měilèměilè Dǎo Czech Ostrov Melemele Danish Melemele-øen Finnish Melemele-saari French Mele-Mele German Mele-Mele Hungarian Melemele Sziget Italian Mele Mele Korean 멜레멜레섬 Mellemelle Seom Norwegian Melemeleøya Polish Wyspa Melemele Brazilian Portuguese Ilha de Melemele Russian Остров Мелемеле Ostrov Melemele Spanish Melemele Swedish Melemele-ön

References

Alola
Islands Melemele Island • Akala Island • Ula'ula Island • Poni Island • Aether Paradise Settlements Iki Town • Hau'oli City (Outskirts) • Heahea City • Paniola Town • Konikoni City • Royal Avenue • Malie City Tapu Village • Po Town • Seafolk Village • Pokémon League Trial sites Verdant Cavern • Brooklet Hill • Wela Volcano Park • Lush Jungle • Hokulani Observatory Thrifty Megamart (Abandoned Site) • Exeggutor Island • Vast Poni Canyon • Seafolk Village Routes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 Landmarks Mahalo Trail • Trainers' School • Hau'oli Cemetery • Berry fields • Melemele Meadow • Seaward Cave • Kala'e Bay • Ten Carat Hill Tide Song Hotel • Paniola Ranch • Melemele Sea • Diglett's Tunnel • Battle Royal Dome • Memorial Hill • Akala Outskirts • Ruins of Life Hano Grand Resort • Hano Beach • Malie Garden • Mount Hokulani • Blush Mountain • Ula'ula Beach • Aether House • Haina Desert Ruins of Abundance • Ula'ula Meadow • Lake of the Moone • Lake of the Sunne • Shady House • Poni Wilds • Ancient Poni Path Poni Breaker Coast • Ruins of Hope • Altar of the Sunne • Altar of the Moone • Mount Lanakila • Ruins of Conflict Poni Grove • Poni Plains • Poni Meadow • Resolution Cave • Poni Coast • Poni Gauntlet • Battle Tree Festival Plaza • Poké Pelago • Big Wave Beach • Sandy Cave • Heahea Beach • Pikachu Valley • Dividing Peak Tunnel Kantonian Gym • Poni Beach • Plains Grotto • Team Rocket's Castle Ultra Space Ultra Deep Sea • Ultra Megalopolis • Megalo Tower • Ultra Jungle • Ultra Desert • Ultra Plant Ultra Forest • Ultra Crater • Ultra Ruin • Ultra Space Wilds

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