Monster Island

Monster Island, originally Solgell Island, was a locale which appeared in Toho Company’s Godzilla franchise.

Description
Located somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, Monster Island was a large volcanic island which became home to many of the world’s monsters. Humans built a research station there in order to monitor and study the creatures, and also installed containment systems so that the monsters would be unable to leave the island and terrorise the human population of Earth.

For the most part, the monsters on Monster Island existed together peacefully, but on one or two occasions violence has erupted amongst them.

History
Solgell Island was the sight of an American experiment with weather control. Unfortunately, this experiment went awry, and the island was covered with a massive dose of radiation. This radiation created the insect kaiju Kamacuras, and possibly Godzilla’s “son” Minilla.

After Godzilla and Minilla began to fight the recently-awoken spider-kaiju Kumonga, the humans deployed another weather experiment and this one was more successful, causing the climate of the island to cool drastically and forcing the battling monsters into hibernation.

After a while the snow and ice began to thaw, and the remainder of Earth’s monsters were rounded up by various means and sent to live on their new habitat, now named Monster Island, and the research facility and containment systems were constructed.

A few years later, a nearby nuclear test would cause the majority of the island to sink beneath the waves, and precipitated the invasion of the undersea race known as the Seatopians when the sinking landmass caused crippling damage to their capital city.

Known Inhabitants

 * Godzilla
 * Kumonga
 * Minilla
 * Kamacuras
 * Anguirus
 * Rodan