

However, huge buildings such as modern schools, gas stations, harbors and an airfield show modernized features of the island.

In the end of one of the trailers, we see the Ceph use some kind of weapon to suck objects from a village on the Lingshan Islands, indicating that the Ceph mountain still remains on the island undestroyed and Ceph activity continues on the island.To cover all the surface of the levels the island should be at least 2-3 times larger than in Contact.The original Chinese name for the island is 靈山島 (Ling Shan Dao), which mean "The isle with the mountain of spirit".In 2047, Prophet landed off the coast of the Lingshan Islands after preventing a Ceph warship from invading Earth. Ultimately, a nuclear strike is launched on the island to destroy the Ceph, but it fails and the Ice Sphere expands over almost the entire island. Later, after the Ice Sphere forms, part of the island is frozen along with all the animals and soldiers. The islands soon became the battleground between the USMC, KPA and Ceph aliens. Delta Force Nanosuit teams were dispatched to find and rescue the IAS team. On 14th August 2020, the US Special Forces arrived on the island. They captured the IAS team that came to research the island. On 7th August 2020, North Korean military forces evacuated the civilian population and locked down the island. Later, the islands were populated by humans.

Millions of years ago, a Ceph Spaceship presumably crashed into the island and was buried beneath the rocks, becoming a mountain. The Lingshan Islands are located in the southern side of the Philippine Sea, near the Philippine Islands. The Lingshan Islands (Tagalog: Mga Isla ng Lingshan/Chinese: 灵山群岛, Língshān Qúndǎo/Korean: 링산제도, Lingsanjedo) are an archipelago of islands and the location of the events of Crysis and Crysis Warhead takes place.
