Donkey Kong Island

Donkey Kong Island (also called DK Isles, DK Island, The Kingdom of Kong and Kongo Bongo Island in the animated series) is the home of Donkey Kong and the rest of the Kong family.

The island is oddly shaped like Donkey Kong's head, complete with such features as ears and Donkey Kong's signature hair swirl. The island, despite not being very large, has drastically different climate in various areas, some areas being jungle, frozen wasteland and desert. Aside from Kremkroc Industries, Inc. and Big Ape City, Donkey Kong Island remains fairly unmodernized. There are several smaller islands near Donkey Kong Island, some of which include Timber's Island and Kremlantis. Also, there are several mysterious ruins (some of which have sunken into the ocean) on the island, it has been speculated that the Kremlings (whose own island was once nearby) may have built these temples, but it is unknown for sure.

Donkey Kong Island is first seen in the game Donkey Kong Country, which was for the Super Nintendo. Donkey and Diddy Kong, during their quest to re-obtain Donkey Kong's Golden Banana hoard from King K. Rool and his Kremling Krew, had to travel through the island's many areas, which included jungles, caves, glaciers and a large factory.

Several other locations of the island, such as Monkey Mountains were visited in Donkey Kong Country's pseudo-sequel, Donkey Kong Land.

In several episodes of Captain N: The Game Master a world named "Kongo Land" was mentioned as the homeworld of Donkey Kong. Whether Kongo Land was an early version of Donkey Kong Island is unknown.

Donkey Kong Island was also the main setting of the Donkey Kong Country television series. On the show Donkey Kong Island was renamed "Kongo Bongo Island" and the island was also shaped differently, similar in apperance to a banana rather than DK's head. Like in the games, Kongo Bongo Island was home to the Kongs, among other creatures.

Donkey Kong Island made two cameo appearances in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, it can be seen in the background of the areas Gangplank Galleon and K. Rool's Keep. In the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 2, the cameo background apperances were removed for an unknown reason.

Donkey Kong Island was not seen in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! or Donkey Kong Land III, instead a new area called the Northern Kremisphere was featured.

Donkey Kong 64 featured a return of Donkey Kong Island, strangely the island was smaller in size here. This is due to technical issues, such as making it easier to roam the island. Plus, when K. Lumsy makes entrances to other levels, these levels are probably part of different areas of DK Island, and the island that is seen is not really the whole island. Since the events of this game, Donkey Kong Island has also been lacking one of its ears, as it had been blown off by K. Lumsy.

Donkey Kong Island is also where the events of DK: King of Swing, the Donkey Konga trilogy, and Donkey Kong Country Returns took place.

Trivia

 * In Donkey Kong Country Returns, if one were to move from an earlier world to a later world using the map, Donkey Kong will be positioned at the first level of the later world. However, if one were to move from a later world to an earlier world DK will be position at the Boss Level of the earlier world. The only world that breaks this rule is the Jungle, being the first world it does not have an earlier world. In order for DK to be placed at the first Jungle level, he will have to move from the final world (Golden Temple) to the Jungle.