Quasar Island

Quasar Island is a fictional location in the Pokémon World. It does not exist in any canon Pokémon game, anime or manga.

It is a small region, notable for it's Pokemon Academy, owned and operated by Ariana Mazi, who is also the Island's Pokemon Professor. As such, she can give Starter Pokemon to beginning trainers that live on Quasar Island or beginning Trainers that attend Quasar Academy. Since the Island is between all the other regions, she has a large selection of Starter Pokemon to choose from. Quasar Island was also the roosting grounds of the legendary Pokémon, Rayquaza in ancient times.

Geography
Although officially labelled as an island, Quasar Island is closer to actually being it's own region, however it is much smaller than other previously known regions. Quasar boasts many dramatic environments, mostly thanks to it's location being within travelling distance with the other regions. It has beaches, forests (both tropical and not), a mountainous area and a desert. It has other smaller islands dotted around it, though it is unlikely that many people live on them.

The climate on Quasar Island can change quite dramatically but is normally warm, however it can experience a cold, snowy winter once in a while. Due to the prestigious Pokemon Academy that resides on the island, most of the populated areas on Quasar Island are close to the school, though there are other small villages and towns along the coastline of the region.

Although being within 'travel distance' of the other regions, it isn't visable from any of the other regions' coastlines and must be reached by boat or plane. Due to it's flucuating climate and broad range of environments, it is home to many different Pokemon from all different regions.

History
It is long since spread by the residents of Quasar Island that the island came to be because of the legendary Pokemon, Rayquaza, a Pokemon that flies around continuously in the world's ozone layer. When Rayquaza needed to rest, it was said that it would roost at the Sky Pillar in the Hoenn region, although many people began to believe there was other Rayquaza throughout the milleniums that would often rest in other areas of the world, Quasar Island being a popular spot. Although know one knows for sure it is a quite popular myth on the island, becoming a tourist attraction and providing the island with it's name. As such, the island and it's residents are very accomodating of Dragon-type Pokemon, even so much as having a shrine honoring the legendary Pokemon, Rayquaza.

In the more recent past, Quasar Island had originally been a distant part of the Kanto region, but was mostly untouched for many years, until Ariana Mazi rediscovered it and started to cultivate the island to it's present self.