Cinnabar Island
Cinnabar Island (Japanese: グレンじま Guren Shima, also Guren Island) is a large island located off the southern coast of the Kanto region, south of Pallet Town. It is home to a large volcano. Blaine is the resident Gym Leader, specializing in Fire-type Pokémon. Cinnabar is a kind of red mineral, which gave the color its name.
In the games
The Generation I games reveal Cinnabar Island to be a technological mecca. The journals scattered about the abandoned Pokémon Mansion suggest that Mewtwo was cloned here. The scientists at the Pokémon Lab have the ability to resurrect Pokémon from their fossils.
By the Generation II games, the large volcano has erupted, destroying everything except the Pokémon Center. After the eruption, the Gym was relocated to the Seafoam Islands.
There are no land paths to the island. Instead Route 20 in the east and Route 21 in the north are both waterways through the ocean.
In the anime
Cinnabar Island is considered a mere beach resort in the anime. Many trainers skip the island entirely or go there for a break from battling. Blaine runs a hotel for tourists and wears a hippie disguise to hide his real identity as Gym Leader. His Gym is located inside of the volcano.
Aside from inside of the Pokémon Mansion, wild Pokémon also appear in the ocean around the island.
Pokémon that appear in Cinnabar Island
Pokémon Red/Blue
Pokémon Yellow
- Tentacool
- Staryu
Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen
- Psyduck (FireRed Only)
- Tentacool
- Slowpoke (LeafGreen Only)
- Slowbro (LeafGreen Only)
- Shellder (FireRed Only)
- Krabby
- Horsea
- Seadra (FireRed Only)
- Staryu (LeafGreen Only)
- Magikarp
- Gyarados
Name origin
Cinnabar is a reddish mineral, a compound of mercury (II) sulfide, usually found near active volcanoes. It is the primary means of obtaining the element mercury, as well as the original means of making vermilion pigment. Guren (紅蓮) refers to the red color of the Crimson lotus.
Trivia
- Cinnabar Island has many glitches assosciated with it in the Generation I games, such as MissingNo. There is also a trick to see a man on the roof of The Gym.
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