Whirl Islands

The Whirl Islands (Japanese: うずまきじま Whirlpool Islands) are a small archipelago located between the mainland of Johto and Cianwood City, on . Beneath the sea, a maze of dark caves sprawl, with explorers able to travel between the four islands with some amount of difficulty. Deep within these caves, can be found once the has obtained the Silver Wing and Tidal Bell.
Named after the dangerous s that surround them, some parts of the Whirl Islands are mysterious and largely inaccessible. Children in Olivine City are told that bad kids are sent to the islands.
As explained in , the Whirl Islands used to be one large island. At some point in time, there were two countries fighting over the island. Lugia, the guardian of the island, got upset and cast lightning bolts to tear the island into four pieces. It then disappeared into the deep end of the basin, longing for the invisible trust between people and Pokémon to manifest once more.
==Items==
==Pokémon==
===Generation II===
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====B1F====
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====B2F (Inner Cave)====
===Generation IV===
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==Special encounters==
===Generation II===
A appears on B2F if the Silver Wing is in the bag.
Gold	Silver	Crystal
 	 	
===Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver===
A appears on B3F if the Silver Wing is in the bag. If defeated or run from, it respawns after entering the Hall of Fame.
HeartGold	SoulSilver
 	
==Layout==
===Generation II===
Version	1F Northwest	1F Northeast	1F Southwest	1F Southeast
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
  	  	  	  	 
Version	B1F 	B1F Middle	B2F 	B2F Inner
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
  	 	  	 	 
===Generation IV===
Version	1F Northwest	1F Northeast	1F Southwest	1F Southeast
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
  	  	  	  	 
Version	B1F 	B2F 	B3F 	B3F Lugia's Cave
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
  	 	 	 	 
==Preview==
File:HGSS Whirl Islands-Morning.png|Morning (Seadra)
File:HGSS Whirl Islands-Day.png|Day/Evening (Seel)
File:HGSS Whirl Islands-Night.png|Night (Tentacool)
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
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In , instead of being deserted, the Whirl Islands contain many towns and other inhabitable areas. The Whirl Islands are home to the Whirl Cup, a competition held once every three years for Pokémon Trainers who specialize in .
Rumors circulate that families of reside there. A mother Lugia and her baby, , were sought by Dr. Namba and did, in fact, reveal themselves.
There are four main islands, with many smaller ones scattered throughout. Together, the islands in the archipelago form a spiral shape.
The table below shows the islands which make up the Whirl Islands:
Image	Name 	Debut 	Map	Areas of interest
 	Blue Point Isle 	Around the Whirlpool 	 	Inland CityBlue LagoonBluefinland
 	Pudgy Pidgey Isle	Fly Me to the Moon 	 	
 	Yellow Rock Isle 	A Corsola Caper! 	 	Megi CityOgi City
 	Red Rock Isle 	Mantine Overboard! 	 	Scarlet CityDiglett VillageTransit Town
 	Silver Rock Isle 	Plant It Now... Diglett Later	 	Kasado City
 	Ogi Isle 	Hi Ho Silver... Away! 	 	
According to the Nurse Joy on Blue Point Isle, the climate varies from island to island.
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The Whirl Islands were mentioned in Stealing the Conversation! when an Officer Jenny said she had been relocated there.
===Pokémon Horizons: The Series===
In , the Whirl Islands are depicted closer to their portrayal in the , being uninhabited, small, rocky islands surrounded by s, standing off the coast of Olivine City.
In HZ077, Mamoru took Liko, Roy, Dot, and Ludlow to visit one of the islands, where several movies from the "VS " movie series that he loved had been filmed, unaware that the main star of those movies had been Ludlow under a different name. When the Rising Volt Tacklers' and Mamoru's got caught in one of the whirlpools, Ludlow secretly changed into his superhero alter ego "Mighty G" and rescued the Pokémon in distress.
===Pokémon Evolutions===
The Whirl Islands appeared briefly in The Show. After the Kimono Girls held a performance detailing the history of Ecruteak City and the Legendary Pokémon that used to live there, itself stirred in the waters of the islands as if in response to its story being told.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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The Whirl Islands first appeared in Really Remoraid, where Morty was able to locate and there at Lt. Surge's request. The two Pokédex holders had been brought to the islands by to recover after they had been defeated by the Masked Man at the Lake of Rage. After dealing with a herd of , Gold and Silver were attacked by . , having arrived at the islands as well, soon joined the other two Trainers in their battle against Lugia. Gold was eventually able to lodge Lugia's mouth open with his , thus preventing it from using anymore. During the battle, Exbo, Silver's Croconaw, and Megaree, the Pokédex holders' three first partner Pokémon, evolved simultaneously. Although Crystal came close to Lugia, the that she had tried to use on it turned out to be empty. As the group's Pokédexes' tracking functions couldn't find Lugia either, they came to realize that someone else had managed to capture Lugia before Crystal's Poké Ball made contact with it.
In Curious Kingdra, Silver traveled to a secret chamber in the Whirl Islands. In order to access it, he needed to use all the different HM moves to get past the natural obstacles protecting its entrance: his 's to calm down a raging , his 's to split up the covering the entrance, and his Feraligatr's to ride across the pool of water in front of it. In the chamber, he encountered its owner, Lance, to whom he returned the he had borrowed from him, after which he demanded information about the Masked Man's plans from him. Using the clues at his disposal, Lance was able to figure out that the Masked Man's goal was to control .
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In Dealing with a Koffing Fit, Silver returned to Lance's hideout, only to find Clair there instead of Lance. Clair, having been unable to contact her cousin for a while, had come to investigate the chamber to see if she could find Lance there. However, the two soon found themselves surrounded by a massive group of . Silver was easily able to defeat them all with his Pokémon, even a suspicious item from one of them in the process. As a result of all the experience gained during the battle, Silver's and then proceeded to evolve into and , respectively. Following a clue from Clair, Silver decided to head out to the next.
===Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys===
The Whirl Islands first appeared in Let's Survive This Sea Battle, where and arrived there. In The Truth About The Mysterious Whirl Islands!!, they encountered a , which demanded that they leave immediately. However, since Gold and Chris's wooden raft had been destroyed by Team Rocket, they could not leave. Slowking revealed that it was in possession of a rubber , which it agreed to hand over to them if they fulfilled a request for it. They agreed, and Slowking took them to a , which had lived on the islands for a hundred years, but had grown violent recently. Slowking tasked them with defeating it, but even or combination moves could not deal enough damage. Eventually, though, Gold managed to lure Blastoise into Slowking's home cave, where it fell into a pond full of , whose combined attacks were enough to defeat it. A gust of wind then blew Slowking's Silver Wing into Gold's hand and appeared, challenging Gold.
In A Serious Crisis!! The Battle With The Lugia, Gold and Chris tried to fight Lugia, but their attacks phased right through it. Even when Chris's 's seemed to have an effect on Lugia's wing, the damage was quickly healed off. Deciding on a tactical retreat, Gold and Chris escaped through an underwater tunnel in Slowking's pond, coming out from another pond on the other side of the islands. Chris, having noticed that Lugia's form was affected by getting in contact with fire and water, figured that Lugia was actually composed of gas, held together by powers. Impressed by their observational skills, Lugia trapped Gold on a small islet in the midst of a pool of lava and offered him one chance to either defeat it or surrender. Gold refused to give up, so Lugia shattered the islet, disappering as Gold had his Pokémon use to solidify the lava and avoid falling into it. He and Chris tried to solidify more lava for him to get back to solid land, but the solidified lava started to crack under his feet. As Chris made a desperate jump to save him, they and their Pokémon were suddenly transported into an underground cave, where they met the real Lugia, who told them that the Lugia they had defeated had been just an illusion. Slowking told them that the real Lugia had to stay in this cave in order to support a stone pillar that was supporting the islands. Even though Lugia hadn't been fighting at full power due to being ill, it still admitted defeat and offered a prize to Gold and Chris. They wished for a ride to Cianwood City, so they boarded an illusionary Lugia to travel there.
In Let's Fight For The Future!!, when the Black Tyranitar attempted to jump over the sea from Cianwood to , Gold used his Silver Wing to call Lugia for assistance. Responding to his cry for help, an illusionary Lugia appeared over the Whirl Islands as the Black Tyranitar was flying over them, blasting it straight back to Cianwood City.
==Trivia==
* The whirlpools are based on the real world on the . The islands are based on and its surrounding islands.
* In Generation II, the player needs to go down a if they want to find , which can be done without the HM move. In Generation IV, the Waterfall HM move is required to go down waterfalls, but the layout of this cave is somewhat different and doesn't require going through any waterfalls in the first place.
* In Sinnoh, a guest at Hotel Grand Lake by Lake Valor mentions a at the Whirl Islands.
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
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Category:Gold, Silver and Crystal locations
Category:HeartGold and SoulSilver locations
Category:Archipelagos
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