Cape Sametama

Sametama Island (サメの魂の島, Shima no Sametama; Japanese for Isle of the Shark-Souls) is an island off the Crescent Moon Coast, close to the border between that country and the Land of Fire. From many points of view off of the mainland, Sametama appears to be just a large dark-rock mountain of a sort, rising out of the sea, but from some views land can be seen beyond it, and in actuality it is a a very large island, rivaling if not exceeding in size the Island Turtle. It possesses a range of small mountains, as well as some valleys and a highland. Sametama is notable for its status, for which it is famous in Getsugakure but kept secret almost by official policy in Konoha, as a penal colony of sorts, a depository for those who are considered complete monsters, but either cannot be killed, or when it would be unseemly for them to be executed. It is surrounded by all types of large sharks and other monsters of the deep, including a sea monster known as the Isonade, and vicious tides make it quite literally impossible to escape without a mode of transport, though it is possible, with the utmost difficulty, to possibly make it onto the island via swimming. Some criminals also escape to here, as it is policy that if anyone reaches the island, they are to be left alone, because it is considered both a taboo for Konoha or Getsu ninja to tread there, and too dangerous to venture onto Sametama except in the direst of situations. Most of the people deposited on Sametama are not ninja, but rather depraved people who cause many atrocities, or else are ninja only in the aspect that they learned ninjutsu, taijutsu or genjutsu, usually in very small and specialized amounts that they used for destructive purposes, but learned it outside of official shinobi schools or training. For this reason, many shinobi underestimate the danger of Sametama's inhabitants, but they are extremely dangerous and vicious.