Dawn Island

Dawn Island (ドーン島, Dōn-tō) is an island located in the East Blue, this island is the location of Goa Kingdom. This is the home island of Monkey D. Luffy and where he begins his journey into piracy, as well as the home island of his father Monkey D. Dragon. This is also the adopted home of Portgas D. Ace after the death of his mother.

Layout
This island has a low mountain and a village and a huge junkyard with a forest at the edge of the junkyard. This island is mostly a rural farmland. It is unknown how many villages are here or how many people live here.

Goa Kingdom encompass the entire island run by a royal family.

Locations

 * Fuusha Village: a sleepy rural village with windmills on the outskirts of the main Goa Kingdom. Notable as Luffy's home and where he met with Shanks the first time inspiring him to be a pirate. This village is run by Woop Slap. Makino owns a bar and Gyoru runs a fish stand. Luffy was born here.


 * Corvo Mountain: a heavily-forested low-hanging mountain that rests behind Fuusha Village. It is notable as the home of several Mountain Bandits, including Higuma and the Dadan Family. Both Luffy and Ace conducted their training in this area as instructed to by Monkey D. Garp under the supervision of Curly Dadan.


 * Gray Terminal: a huge junkyard that is full of disease and crimes, it smells due to the burning from the sun. It lays at the edge of Corbo Mountain. Sabo lived here until he was taken in by Dadan with Luffy and Ace.


 * Midway Forest: a forest between Gray Terminal and Corbo Mountain.

History
After the birth of Ace, Garp moved him here for Dadan's care.

17 years ago, Luffy was born in this island.

10 years ago, when the story started, Shanks and his Pirate Crew stopped by here where Luffy meets them. After a while, Garp came back and took Luffy to Dadan.

7 years after that, Ace departed from the island. Luffy did the same thing 3 years later.

Wildlife
Cows can be found at the outskirts of the village. However Corbo Mountain is a home to dangerous gigantic animals such as tigers, alligators, bears, snakes, and vultures.

Trivia

 * Even if it was not revealed until chapter 584, Goa Kingdom was the first kingdom to appear in the series as Fuusha Village is part of the kingdom.

First Appearance: Chapter 1; Episode 4