Snakebeech Forest

Snakebeech Forest is a forest located on Whale Island.

Overview
Gon meets Kite for the first time here and he adopts Kon after Kite kills his mother.

Hunter Exam arc
Three years, before Gon is able to take the Hunter Exam, he gets lost in the Snakebeech Forest and encounters a Foxbear mother and its child. A man by the name of Kite saves Gon and slays the foxbear mother. Seeing is how Gon was able to get up after his encounter, he strikes Gon to the ground and chastises him for entering the forest with territorial markings left on several trees around the forest, and questions if his father did not teach him such a thing. He also mentions that he learned of this encounter from a Speckled Squirrel and chides the fact that he was roped into doing something he detests.

Gon discloses that his Mother and Father died in an accident and that he lives with his Aunt Mito, Kite gives a consoling comment to Gon and gives him an antiseptic. Kite then proceeds to slay the baby Foxbear, however, Gon stops him and claims that he'll take responsibility by raising him. It's then that Kite realizes that Gon is his Master's son and he tells Gon this and that his father Ging Freecss is still alive and a Hunter. Before leaving Gon he discloses a metaphor by his father "Good Hunters are well-liked by animals" and leaves him his father's Double Star Hunter License.