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* ''[[Sister Princess]]'' begins with Wataru Minakami being sent to Promise Island for high school instead of the high-status, high-pressure Tokyo high school that he expected to attend.
* In ''[[Code Geass]] R2'', Zero makes a deal with Britannia to let him be exiled to an island off of China instead of killed.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Seems to be the point of the Craggy Island parish in ''[[Father Ted]]''.
== [[Oral Tradition]], Myths and Legends ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Isle of Despair in ''[[Arcanum]]'' is a [[Penal Colony]] that also happens to hold Maximillian, the true king of Cumbria, after he was deposed by his younger brother.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* This was a popular way for Japanese emperors to get rid of daimyo that had become politically dangerous - Japan has many, many islands.
* Celtic Saint Columba started his career as a Monk of noble birth. He was exiled from Ireland for embarrassing his superiors by taking part in a clan feud and set up shop on the island of Iona.
* [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] was subject to this ''twice''. First to Elba, which he escaped from, and then Saint Helena, which he did not and eventually died on.
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