Chincoteague Island

This is the Island that is inhabited by the people who every year go to the neighboring Assateague island to round up the ponies. The main part of the story takes place here as this is where Paul, Maureen, their grandparents, and the rest of the town's people live. No one but the wild horses live on the neighboring island. Thus, there is definitely a separation between the wild and the civilized world.

Assategue Island

This is the island where the first horses from the Galleon washed up and established themselves. After many centuries of adapting and living on the island, the ponies little resembled the fiery war horses that they had originally been in Spain. This island is larger than Chincoteague Island. The pony round up is started on the island and is also where Phantom is released back into the wild by Paul at the...