- You may also be looking for South Island, the setting of Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit).
Southern Island
Southern Island is the birth place of Marine the Raccoon and is located in Blaze's universe. It appears in the game Sonic Rush Adventure. Marine lives in the Windmill Village, a village in the center of the island. Marine has always lived there. It's also home to the Coconut Crew, a group of seven koalas who are Marine's friends. In Sonic Rush Adventure, Southern Island acts like a regular menu screen, where the player uses Sonic to talk to the other characters to access certain game modes, like how you have to talk to Setter in order to change the game's settings.
Locations
Map of Southern Island with all the water vehicles unlocked.
In the point-and-click map of Southern Island in Sonic Rush Adventure, many of the featured parts of the island are shown. These spots include:
- Marine's House - Located in the Windmill Village. You can find Marine, Blaze, Tails, and Setter there. You can also come here to play missions given by Marine, play Time Attack, or manage Wi-Fi settings.
- Whale Point - Sonic comes here to train and it also serves as a tutorial where the player learns how to play the game.
- Seagull Beach - Sonic comes here to talk to Muzy, the wandering musician who opens the Sound Test. You can unlock more music once you've completed certain missions.
- Wave Cyclone - The dock where the waterbike, the Wave Cyclone, is anchored. You can find Tabby, the first member of the Coconut Crew Sonic meets, and Kylok there. Tabby gives missions for you to do, and Kylok opens up a list of movies that are from the events of the game.
- Ocean Tornado - The dock where the ship, the Ocean Tornado, is anchored. This is where you can find Gardon, Blaze's royal guard, and Norman, a viking polar bear who was trapped in a block of ice at Blizzard Peaks until Sonic rescued him. Gardon gives out missions for Blaze to do in order to get the Sol Emeralds, and Norman opens the Viking Cup, a sort of Time Attack for the water vehicles.
- Aqua Blast - The dock where the hovercraft, the Aqua Blast, is anchored. You can find Colonel there, who helps Sonic with knowledge about the places he's explored. He gives out missions, and decorates Southern Island if you pay him a certain amount of rings.
- Deep Typhoon - The dock where the submarine, the Deep Typhoon, is anchored. You can find Daikun there, a member of the Coconut Crew who's always carrying around a hammer. He will decorate the island when certain missions are completed.
- Magma Hurricane - This appears as a door on the volcano, and only appears after the player has visited Deep Core once. It replays the whole story after Big Swell.
Archie Comics
Southern Island also appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic adaptation of Sonic Rush Adventure. In Sonic Universe, Marine and Blaze are sailing around on the Ocean Tornado. They come across Shadow who apparently just lost a small battle to Metal Sonic. Marine and Blaze pull him onto the boat and Marine considers Shadow as "A sinister looking one". Shadow introduces himself and Blaze wonders if he's related to Sonic the Hedgehog. Shadow says that they have crossed paths before and he explains how he got to her world. Blaze then explains that her first meeting with Sonic "didn't go so well". She then retells the story of how she was reunited with him, Tails, and Marine. Before Blaze could finish the proper ending of the story, Marine says she went all crazy on them and saved the day. Shadow gets annoyed along with Blaze and says if she's the captain, why doesn't she just steer them to the nearest port.
Marine then takes the wheel and steers toward Southern Island. Marine then points out to Blaze that she smells smoke and the three rush out onto Seagull Beach. The three then meet Metal Sonic (to Shadow, once again) who is attacking one of the Coconut Crew Members. Blaze then attacks him for assaulting one of her people, but she gets knocked back. Then Shadow tries to fight Metal Sonic using his Chaos Control, but it fails. That's when Marine hops on top of Metal, and when Shadow and Blaze tried to attack, Marine kept getting in their way. Metal throws Marine off and thanks to quick thinking from Blaze, Shadow and Blaze unleash a combo on Metal and launch him up into the air. Marine then uses the Ocean Tornado's cannons to completely destroy Metal Sonic, leaving Shadow temporarily stranded. Shadow says that Metal had the dimensional engine that was his only way home. He is then given the green Chaos Emerald by Blaze, which was given to her by Sonic to help her find the Sol Emeralds.
Trivia
- Southern Island is possibly the Sol Dimension's counterpart to South Island. Also, Sonic's first destination after arriving on the island is an island to the west, which mirrors West Side Island, the location in Sonic the Hedgehog 2.