Skull Island (King Kong)

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Skull Island, as seen in the third game in the series. Guybrush Threepwood and the Lost Welshman are at the bottom of the picture.

Skull Island is a small island and home to the infamous smuggler known as "King André" in the adventure game The Curse of Monkey Island.

Template:Spoiler Skull Island is only reachable via a small dinghy operated by the ghostly "Lost Welshman" (an allusion to the legend of The Flying Dutchman). While living, the Welshman became lost in the fog surrounding Skull Island when the lighthouse on neighbouring Blood Island was broken. Guybrush Threepwood needs to get to Skull Island in order to get a diamond he needs to lift the curse cast on Elaine Marley by LeChuck's cursed ring. In order to get to Skull Island, he must fix the lighthouse and make a compass for the Welshman.

Trivia

• Many characters claim that Skull Island is in the shape of a skull. When the island is finally shown, however, it more closely resembles a duck than a skull. An astonished Guybrush grumbles "It should be called Duck Island."
• Skull Island is one of the smallest islands in the Monkey Island series (the player can only interact with a few things on the island and it is contained by only four perspective shots).
• A puzzle from the first game in the Simon the Sorcerer series involves retrieving a herb from a place called Skull Island, though in fact it appears as little more than a rock in the swamp.
• Coincidentally, a section of the game Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror that takes place in Caribbean features a skull-shaped island called Zombie Island.