Turtle Island: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]'': the wise Morla who lives in the Swamps of Sadness.

* ''Hungry Kid Island'' by [[Shel Silverstein]], about an island that's [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: the scalp of a giant hungry child.

To solve this mystery. }}

* There's a [[Turtle Island]] in the first book of [[David Drake]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Isles]]'' series. True to Drake's own brand of "realistic" fantasy, the only life present is sea plants.

* In ''[[Kings Bounty|King's Bounty: The Legend]]'', a scientist (the would-be king of the humans who gave up his throne [[For Science!]], no less) hypothesizes that the world rests on the back of a giant turtle. He also remarks on how ludicrous an opposing hypothesis that says [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|the world is a giant sphere orbiting a sun in a large void.]] {{spoiler|He's right.}}

* ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'' has a stage called [[Palmtree Panic|Ocean]] [[Temple of Doom|Palace]], which has an area full of giant turtles the teams (other than Team Rose) have to go between via cannons and springs.

* The fourth ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' expansion Mists of Pandaria introduces a massive Turtle Island named Shen-zin Su, the Wandering Isle, as the starting zone for the pandaren.

== Real Life ==

* The Turtle Island cosmology mentioned above in Mythology has become the basis for a famous often-cited [[Straw Man|"argument"]] or thought experiment in cosmology and metaphysics known as [[wikipedia:Turtles all the way down|"Turtles All The Way Down"]]:

'''Man #2:''' Don't be a fool. It's [[Turtles All the Way Down]]! }}

* The [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1062575/Pictured-The-punk-rock-turtle-bright-green-mohawk.html Mary River Turtle] and other species that actually grow algae on their shells.