Misc locations
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This article is a list of miscellaneous locations that appear in the Metal Gear series.
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[edit] United States of America
[edit] Alaska
The northernmost state of the United States of America. The name Alaska comes from Alakshak, a word meaning peninsula in the Aleut language. The northern part of Alaska is rich in nature and inhabited by many wild animals such as caribou and grizzly bears.
Alaska is the most recurring of all the locations in the MGS series.
At the end of Operation Snake Eater, Naked Snake and Eva flew to Alaska before going to visit Langley.
Solid Snake and Master Miller have both lived in Alaska, and Shadow Moses Island is located here. Snake retired to Twin Lakes, Alaska after the Zanzibar Land Uprising of 1999. He also stated that he was supposed to take his dog-sled team to Anchorage for the Iditarod a day after the Shadow Moses Incident.
[edit] Galena, Alaska
Galena is a small town located in mainland Alaska, home to a United States military air base.
During the Shadow Moses incident in 2005, two F-16s were dispatched from Galena in order to provide a diversion for Solid Snake, so he could infiltrate the facility more easily.
[edit] Federal Hall, NYC
Federal Hall is a building in Wall Street, NYC. It is the site of President George Washington's inauguration ceremony, and a statue of him (which has since become both a landmark and an icon) stands outside to commemorate the occasion.
Raiden met Rose for the first time on April 30th, 2007, on the steps of Federal Hall. Two years later to the day, Raiden fought and killed Solidus Snake at the climax of the Manhattan Incident.
[edit] Portsmouth, New Hampshire
After the destruction of REX by operative Solid Snake and the death of Liquid, the surviving Genome Soldiers were transferred to the Pease AFB in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where they were imprisoned for treason.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is also the hometown of Major Zero.
[edit] Bikini Atoll
Bikini Atoll is an uninhabited atoll in the Micronesian Islands. It is a member of the Marshall Islands. Big Boss took part in one of the many tests that occured there from 1946 to 1958. Bikini Atoll was a site of more than 20 nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1958, including the first test of a practical hydrogen bomb in 1954.
[edit] Lobito Island
A physics and chemistry lab located in the fictitious Moloni Republic in South Africa, Lobito Island is the setting for Metal Gear AC!D
[edit] Russia
Russia is a transcontinental country located in northern Eurasia.
Russia is notable for the amount of military weapons and vehicles it produces. In the era following World War II, Russia and the United States became involved in a decades-long political conflict now known as the Cold War.
Creations of the Russian military include the Hind D, a very powerful gunship.
In 1964, FOX operative Naked Snake was dispatched on two important missions in central Russia: the Virtuous Mission and Operation Snake Eater, the latter of which was a resounding success.
[edit] Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, commonly known as the Soviet Union) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. In the early 1960s, the Cold War between the USA and the Soviet Union reached a vital point following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion invasion, in which The Boss took part. In 1962, a U2 Spy Plane photographed a Nuclear Weapons Disposal Facility in Cuba, gaining evidence that the Soviets were in fact using it to store live missiles, sparking the fear of nuclear war. President Kennedy made a deal with Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev, that in return for the US not invading Cuba, the Soviet Union would remove their missiles. At least, that was the story fed to the public.
In actuality, the US's part of the deal was not just to not invade, but in fact to provide the Soviet Union with scientist Nikolai Stephanovich Sokolov. In 1964, in an operation known as the Virtuous Mission, Naked Snake was sent to rescue Sokolov and return him safely to the west. The operation was a disastrous failure.
- For more information, see Cold War.
