Mateo Island
Here are the Canon Foundry facts about Mateo Island, all taken from the International Rescue Thunderbirds Agents’ Technical Manual written by Sam Denham (2012):
- In the event of emergencies, and to provide additional service facilities, Mateo Island has also been converted for International Rescue’s use by the Tracy family
- A monorail link to the main island (Tracy Island) allows access and transportation of supplies without drawing attention to the organization’s activities
- Has an atomic fusion reactor
- Has an air recycling and pumping station
- Has a deployed emergency satellite communications station
- Communications antennae doors and hangar doors are disguised by a rock face (such as that which conceals Thunderbird Two’s hangar on Tracy Island)
- Has an emergency launch bay for Thunderbird Three
- Has cahelium-strengthened fuel tanks linked via an undersea pipeline to Tracy Island
- There is a main hangar, a hangar for the Tracy family jet and a hangar for small family boats and Thunderbird Four