Melemele Island

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Location:	Northwest Alola
Region:	Alola
Generations:	VII
	; Location of Melemele Island in Alola.
	Pokémon world locations

Melemele Island (Japanese: メレメレ島(じま) Melemele Island) is the northwestern of the four major islands of Alola. Tapu Koko is the island's guardian deity.

Trials

Melemele Island has only one trial for the island challenge, leading to a grand trial with Hala.

Trial
Generation VII		Region: Alola
Captain Japanese	Location Japanese	Type	Totem Pokémon	Ally Pokémon
Ilima イリマ Ilima	Verdant Cavern 茂みの洞窟 Verdant Cavern	Normal	Gumshoos^SUS	Yungoos^SUS
Ilima イリマ Ilima	Verdant Cavern 茂みの洞窟 Verdant Cavern	Normal	Alolan Raticate^MUM	Alolan Rattata^MUM

Grand trial

Grand trial
Generation VII		Region: Alola
Island kahuna Japanese	Location Japanese	Type	Trial Stamp
Hala ハラ Hala	Iki Town リリィタウン Liliʻi Town	Fighting	Melemele Trial Completion

Locations on Melemele Island

Animated series-exclusive locations

In animation

Pokémon the Series

Melemele Island's main settlement of Hau'oli City is home to many of Ash's friends including Sophocles, Lillie, Lana, and Mallow. Professor Kukui, his wife Professor Burnet, and their child Lei live on the coast on the Hau'oli Outskirts. Iki Town, meanwhile, is where many Trainers challenge Kahuna Hala in a grand trial as a part of the island challenge.

Bewear's den, home to Bewear and her child Stufful, is located somewhere in the forests of Melemele. The den also served as the Team Rocket trio's base of operations while in Alola.

Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon

Melemele Island serves as the main setting for Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, due to it being the location of the Pokémon School. It was first introduced in Alola to New Adventure!, where Ash and his mother Delia arrived to deliver a Pokémon Egg to Samson Oak. While there, Ash found out about the Pokémon School, and decided to stay behind and attend it. He also learned that the island's guardian deity, Tapu Koko, had taken a special interest in him.

Pokémon Journeys: The Series

Ash and Goh visited Melemele Island on one of their research trips in That New Old Gang of Mine!. The boys attended a welcome party at the Pokémon School arranged by Ash's former classmates while Goh caught himself a Pyukumuku and Alolan Exeggutor.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc

Moon was seen at Melemele Island in her arrival at Alola, where she met Sun and delivered a Rotom to Professor Kukui while also coming in contact with Tapu Koko. The island kahunas decided to hold a competition to choose a person for an island challenge, and both Sun and Moon came to participate in it.

After battling the Masked Royal, Guzma, and Gladion, Sun managed to win the tournament, earning him an island challenge amulet and sending him on a journey to appease the enraged guardian deities.

Trivia

Origin

Main article: Pokémon world in relation to the real world → Alola

Melemele Island may correspond to the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu, where it is the most populated among the Hawaiian Islands with the state capital of Honolulu located on its southeast coast.

Oʻahu's official color is golden yellow^[1], while the island's official flower is the ʻilima (golden mallow).^[2]

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	メレメレ島 Melemele-jima	From melemele (Hawaiian for "yellow"), matching to the official island color of Oʻahu
English	Melemele Island
German, French	Mele-Mele
European Spanish	Melemele
Italian	Mele Mele
Korean	멜레멜레섬 Melemele Seom
Chinese (Traditional)	美樂美樂島 Měilèměilè Dǎo / Méihlohkméihlohk Dóu	Transcription of its Japanese name
Chinese (Simplified)	美乐美乐岛 Měilèměilè Dǎo	Transcription of its Japanese name
Catalan	Illa Melemele^{[n 1]}	From its English name
Czech	Ostrov Melemele
Danish	Melemele-øen
Finnish	Melemele-saari
Hungarian	Melemele Sziget
Dutch	Melemele Eiland
Norwegian	Melemeleøya
Polish	Wyspa Melemele
Brazilian Portuguese	Ilha de Melemele Ilha Melemele^{[n 2]}
European Portuguese	Ilha Melemele
Russian	Остров Мелемеле Ostrov Melemele	Transcription of its English name
Swedish	Melemele-ön	From its English name