Cinnabar Island

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Cinnabar Island グレンタウン Guren Town "The Ravaged Town of the Past"

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Map description A town used to be here until it was swept away by an eruption.

Cinnabar Island Gym - Kanto Gym #7 Blaine Fire-type specialist Gym Volcano Badge

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Connecting locations   ↑ Route 21   Cinnabar Island Route 20 →

Location File:CinnabarKantoTownMap.gif Location of Cinnabar Island in Kanto.

Other generation maps File:Cinnabar Island I.png File:Cinnabargsc.png File:Cinnabarisland-frlg.png Gen I Gen II Gen III

Cinnabar Island (Japanese, Generations I and III: グレンじま Guren Island, II and IV: グレンタウン Guren Town) 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 was once the resident Gym Leader specializing in Template:Type2 Pokémon, but as of Generation IV, Cinnabar Island no longer has a Gym. Cinnabar is a kind of red mineral, associated with hot springs and volcanoes. The island is connected to the mainland by two water routes: Route 20 in the east and Route 21 in the north.

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. Two years after the events of Generation I and Generation III, as seen in Generation II and Generation IV, a volcano erupted on the island, destroying everything except for the Pokémon Center.

Places of interest

Pokémon Mansion

Main article: Pokémon Mansion

The Pokémon Mansion is a decrepit, burned-down mansion on Cinnabar Island. It got its name because a famous Pokémon Researcher once lived there. The Pokémon Mansion has four different floors. Doors can be unlocked in the Mansion by pressing switches hidden in Mewtwo statues. To access the Cinnabar Island Gym in Generation I and Generation III, the main character has to enter the mansion and find the Secret Key to unlock the door of the Gym. Many burglars come to the mansion, trying to steal valuable items that may have been lost in the wreckage, challenging the player to a battle when spotted. Amongst the rubble and wreckage is information that the scientists who once worked there obtained a Mew and impregnated it with the genetically altered Mewtwo, who destroyed the mansion in its escape.

Pokémon Lab

Main article: Pokémon Lab

The Pokémon Lab is a laboratory located on Cinnabar Island. It was founded by Dr. Fuji and appears in the Generation I games and their remakes. The first room of the Pokémon Lab has two people who will offer to trade Pokémon. The old man will offer his Electrode for a Raichu, and the girl will want to trade her Tangela for a Venonat. In the second room, there is a man who will teach Metronome once to one of the player's Pokémon; in Generation I, he gives away TM35 (Metronome). In the third room, there is a scientist who will revive the fossils the player obtained at Mt. Moon and from the Pewter City Museum and a person who will trade his Seel for a Ponyta. In Silph Co., there is a Pokémon Report stating that Pokémon Lab created Porygon.

Volcano

There is a volcano on Cinnabar Island which gives it its name. Strangely enough, the volcano that appears on Cinnabar Island cannot be accessed to, or has never been seen or mentioned on the island, in Generation I and in Generation III. In the anime, the volcano is a prominent feature of the island, and is where the Cinnabar Gym is located, split into two sections. One is inside of the volcano, and has an arena suspended over the lava inside one of the chambers, while the other is atop the volcano's crater. In Generation II and IV, three years after the events of Generation I and III, the volcano erupted on the island destroying everything, except for the Pokémon Center which still stands. What appeared to be a rain-filled crater could also be seen in Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal. In HeartGold and SoulSilver, the exterior of the volcano can be scaled with Rock Climb. By Judging the maps of Gen I, II, III, and IV, the volcano originated where the gym once stood.

Demographics

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, before the destruction of the island in the Generation II and Generation IV games, Cinnabar Island had a population of 36.

Cinnabar Gym

Main article: Cinnabar Gym

Cinnabar Gym in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

The Cinnabar Gym is the official gym of Cinnabar Island, it is based on Template:Type2 Pokémon and the Gym Leader is Blaine. Trainers who defeat him receive the Volcano Badge. The player is unable to enter the gym at once, only when they obtain the Secret Key from the Pokémon Mansion can they unlock the door to the gym. The Cinnabar Gym is a high-tech affair featuring a series of sealed doors. Trivia questions about various Pokémon must be answered to unseal the doors. However, when the player fails to answer a trivia question correctly, a battle with either a Burglar or Super Nerd results, an alternative to unsealing the doors. In Generations II and IV, Blaine's original gym on Cinnabar Island was destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This forced him to relocate to a cave in the Seafoam Islands.

Poké Mart

Ultra Ball $1,200	Great Ball $600
Hyper Potion $1,200	Revive $1,500
Full Heal $600	Escape Rope $550
Max Repel $700

Items

Item		Location	Games

Pokémon

Generation I

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Gift Pokémon
Seel	R		B		Y		Trade Ponyta	The same as the Traded Pokémon	One
Electrode	R		B		Y		Trade Raichu	The same as the Traded Pokémon	One
Tangela	R		B		Y		Trade Venonat	The same as the Traded Pokémon	One
Dewgong	R		B		Y		Trade Growlithe	The same as the Traded Pokémon	One
Muk	R		B		Y		Trade Kangaskhan	The same as the Traded Pokémon	One
Rhydon	R		B		Y		Trade Golduck	The same as the traded Pokémon	One
Omanyte	R		B		Y		Revive Helix Fossil	30	Many
Kabuto	R		B		Y		Revive Dome Fossil	30	Many
Aerodactyl	R		B		Y		Revive Old Amber	30	Many
Fishing
Magikarp	R		B		Y		Fishing Old Rod	5	100%
Poliwag	R		B		Y		Fishing Good Rod	10	50%
Goldeen	R		B		Y		Fishing Good Rod	10	50%
Tentacool	R		B		Y		Fishing Super Rod	15-30	40%
Shellder	R		B		Y		Fishing Super Rod	15	25%
Horsea	R		B		Y		Fishing Super Rod	15	25%
Goldeen	R		B		Y		Fishing Super Rod	15	25%
Staryu	R		B		Y		Fishing Super Rod	15	25%
Staryu	R		B		Y		Fishing Super Rod	10-15	60%
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Generation II

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Fishing and Surfing
Tentacool	G		S		C		Surfing	30-39	90%
Tentacruel	G		S		C		Surfing	35-39	10%
Magikarp	G		S		C		Fishing Old Rod	10	85%
Krabby	G		S		C		Fishing Old Rod	10	15%
Krabby	G		S		C		Fishing Good Rod	20	55%
Magikarp	G		S		C		Fishing Good Rod	20	35%
Corsola	G		S		C		Fishing Good Rod	20	10%	10%	0%
Staryu	G		S		C		Fishing Good Rod	20	0%	0%	10%
Krabby	G		S		C		Fishing Super Rod	40	60%
Corsola	G		S		C		Fishing Super Rod	40	30%	30%	0%
Staryu	G		S		C		Fishing Super Rod	40	0%	0%	30%
Kingler	G		S		C		Fishing Super Rod	40	10%
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Generation III

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Gift Pokémon
Seel	FR			LG			Trade Ponyta	The same as the Traded Pokémon	One
Electrode	FR			LG			Trade Raichu	The same as the Traded Pokémon	One
Tangela	FR			LG			Trade Venonat	The same as the Traded Pokémon	One
Omanyte	FR			LG			Revive Helix Fossil	5	Many
Kabuto	FR			LG			Revive Dome Fossil	5	Many
Aerodactyl	FR			LG			Revive Old Amber	5	Many
Fishing and Surfing
Tentacool	FR			LG			Surfing	5-40	100%
Magikarp	FR			LG			Fishing Old Rod	5	100%
Horsea	FR			LG			Fishing Good Rod	5-15	60%
Horsea	FR			LG			Fishing Good Rod	5-15	20%
Krabby	FR			LG			Fishing Good Rod	5-15	20%
Krabby	FR			LG			Fishing Good Rod	5-15	60%
Magikarp	FR			LG			Fishing Good Rod	5-15	20%
Shellder	FR			LG			Fishing Super Rod	15-25	40%
Horsea	FR			LG			Fishing Super Rod	15-25	40%
Krabby	FR			LG			Fishing Super Rod	15-25	40%
Staryu	FR			LG			Fishing Super Rod	15-25	40%
Gyarados	FR			LG			Fishing Super Rod	15-25	15%
Seadra	FR			LG			Fishing Super Rod	25-35	4%
Kingler	FR			LG			Fishing Super Rod	25-35	4%
Psyduck	FR			LG			Fishing Super Rod	25-35	1%
Slowpoke	FR			LG			Fishing Super Rod	25-35	1%
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Generation IV

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Fishing and Surfing
Tentacool	HG			SS			Surfing	30-35	90%
Tentacruel	HG			SS			Surfing	35	10%
Magikarp	HG			SS			Fishing Old Rod	10	95%
Tentacool	HG			SS			Fishing Old Rod	10	5%
Magikarp	HG			SS			Fishing Good Rod	20	60%
Tentacool	HG			SS			Fishing Good Rod	20	30%
Chinchou	HG			SS			Fishing Good Rod	20	7%
Shellder	HG			SS			Fishing Good Rod	20	3%
Chinchou	HG			SS			Fishing Super Rod	40	60%
Shellder	HG			SS			Fishing Super Rod	40	30%
Tentacruel	HG			SS			Fishing Super Rod	40	7%
Lanturn	HG			SS			Fishing Super Rod	40	3%
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

In the anime

File:Cinnabar Island volcano.JPG

The opening to the volcano on Cinnabar Island 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.

The Cinnabar Gym has two sections in the anime; one is inside of the volcano, and has an arena suspended over the lava inside one of the chambers. The other arena is in the top crater of the volcano itself.

In Riddle Me This, Ash was trying to locate the gym so he could challenge Blaine. He was told by a man who liked telling riddles that the gym disappeared when Cinnabar Island became a tourist trap. However, the man eventually told Ash that Blaine built another gym inside of a volcano. When Ash and the others went in, they learned that the riddler was actually Blaine in disguise. Ash and Blaine battled, but Ash had a series of misfortunes. The first was his Squirtle being defeated by Blaine's Ninetales. Then, his Charizard refused to listen to him. Finally, Pikachu received severe burns caused by Blaine's Magmar and its powerful Fire Blast. Ash called off the battle, not wanting Pikachu to get injured. In Volcanic Panic, after Team Rocket had almost destroyed Blaine's gym (and Cinnabar Island as a result), he agreed to a rematch on his alternate battlefield on top of the volcano. This time, Ash was able to defeat Blaine with the help of his Charizard and its Seismic Toss.

Differences between generations

Cinnabar Island has changed dramatically between Generation I and Generation II as the city has been totally replaced by a large erupted volcano, removing everything except for the Pokémon Center. After the eruption, the Gym was relocated to the Seafoam Islands. Blue can be first found at Cinnabar, because he was bored and decided to take a stroll there. In Generation III, there are a few changes with the visual design, as the Pokémon Mansion and Pokémon Lab are slightly larger along with more sandy beach areas. The first and last questions in the Cinnabar Gym have also been changed slightly for clarification. In Generation IV, the island stays much the same as Generation II, although the volcano is now climbable by Rock Climb.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Cinnabar Island debuted in Holy Moltres in the Red, Green & Blue Chapter, where Team Rocket with their Gengar and Magnemite were trying to hunt down Blaine because he had quit Team Rocket. He used his Arcanine and Rapidash. When he saw Red he saved him from the cliff just as Team Rocket let out the Moltres they had captured earlier. Blaine told him to use his Rapidash to get to his lab and restore the Old Amber.

Later when Red came back he was joined with an Aerodactyl that he had restored. They defeated Moltres and Team Rocket ran away.

Trivia

• Its Japanese motto is グレンの あかは じょうねつの いろ.
• In Pokémon Pinball, Cinnabar Island appears on the Red and Blue tables; catchable Pokémon include Growlithe, Ponyta, Grimer, Koffing, Tangela, Magmar, Omanyte, Kabuto and Aerodactyl.
• It was long believed that Cinnabar Island once was the tip of a stratovolcano or a shield volcano since no mountain was visible on the island for the first three generations. This was changed in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver where a mountain stratovolcano is actually there and can be reached by using Rock Climb, indicating that lack of diverse scenery in the past games was the reason for no mountain being there. However, all map artworks throughout the Generations have shown the volcano to be there.
• Cinnabar Island has many glitches associated with it in the Generation I games, such as the old man glitch, due to programming oversights on the island's coast. There is also a trick to see a man on the roof of the Gym. However, both of these glitches were fixed in some regional versions.
• Cinnabar Island is the only area with a Pokémon Gym whose name ends in neither "City" nor "Town". However, one of its Japanese names ends in "Town".
• Its motto before Generation IV was "The Fiery Town of Burning Desire".
• Vermilion City and Cinnabar Island are named after the same color in the English version of the Pokémon games (since vermilion pigment is produced from the mineral cinnabar), but not in the Japanese versions, since クチバシティ (Kuchiba City, the Japanese name for Vermilion City) refers to a shade of orange while グレンタウン (Guren Town, the Japanese name for Cinnabar Island) refers to a shade of red. Vermilion is an orange-red pigment, produced from the orange-red mineral cinnabar. This explains why Vermilion City is colored orange while Cinnabar Island is colored red.
• It is the southernmost location in both Kanto and Johto that you can Fly to.

In other languages

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	グレンじま Guren Jima	紅蓮 (guren) refers to the red color of the Crimson lotus.
English	Cinnabar Island	From cinnabar, a orange-red mineral used to produce vermilion pigment.
French	Cramois'île	From cramoisi, crimson, and île, island.
German	Zinnoberinsel	From Zinnoberrot, carmine, and Insel, island.
Italian	Isola Cannella	From isola, island, and cannella, cinnamon.
Polish	Wyspa Cinnabar	From wyspa, island, and English Cinnabar.
Spanish	Isla Canela	From isla, island, and canela, cinnamon.
Korean	홍련섬 Hongryeon Seom	홍련 (hongryeon) means "red lotus."
Chinese (Mandarin)	紅蓮鎮/红莲镇 Hónglián Zhèn 紅蓮島 Hónglián Dǎo	紅蓮/红莲 (hónglián) also means "red lotus." In addition, 鎮 means town, while 島 means island.
Chinese (Cantonese)	紅蓮鎮 Hunglin Zan	Also from its Japanese name. 紅蓮 (hunglin) also means "red lotus."

Kanto
Settlements Pallet Town • Viridian City • Pewter City • Cerulean City • Vermilion City • Lavender Town Celadon City • Saffron City • Fuchsia City • Cinnabar Island • Indigo Plateau Routes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 Landmarks Professor Oak's Laboratory • Viridian Forest • Diglett's Cave • Pewter Museum of Science • Mt. Moon (Square) • Cerulean Cave Underground Path (Kanto Routes 5–6) • Underground Path (Kanto Routes 7–8) • S.S. Anne • S.S. Aqua • Sea Cottage • Rock Tunnel Power Plant • Cycling Road/Pokémon Road • Team Rocket Hideout • Silph Co. • Magnet Train • Pokémon Tower • Safari Zone/Pal Park GO Park • Seafoam Islands • Pokémon Mansion • Cinnabar Lab • Pokémon League Reception Gate • Victory Road • Tohjo Falls Access to Sevii Islands • Johto

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