Remote Islands 2

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1. First I want an Antarctic island belonging to South Africa. It contains a meterological station and a 1230 m. high mountain that used to be called Jan Smuts Peak, but now is called State President Peak. Marion Island Heard Island Prince Edward Island McDonald Island

2. Now I am looking for an Australian island. Together with another island it constitutes an Australian External Territory. Highest mountain Mawson peak is 2745 m. McDonald Island Heard Island Ashmore Island Cartier Island

3. This island also belongs to Australia. The highest peak on the island is Mount Gower, 875 m. Macquarie Island Lord Howe Island Heard Island McDonald Island

4. This Australian island used to be called Van Diemen's land. Norfolk Island Groote Eylandt Tasmania Melville Island

5. This island, along with another, constitutes an Australian External Territory. It is rather a reef, it is uninhabited, and it is in the Timor Sea. Ashmore Island Christmas Island Cocos Island Melville Island

6. This is also an Australian External Territory, and it consists of several uninhabited reefs or islands, among them the Coringa Islands. Coral Sea Islands Bounty Islands Cocos Islands Antipode Islands

7. Now I will ask you for an island which is annexed to New Zealand. This island has some good harbors. Highest peak is Mount Honey, 558 m. Campbell Island Bounty Island Chatham Island Antipodes Island

8. This island is one of the Line islands. It was worked by an American company for its guano 1857-79. It was annexed by Great Britain 1889 and claimed by USA 1935. Wake Island Palmyra Reef Jarvis Island Kingman Reef

9. These islands are part of the Phoenix Islands. Together with another island they constitute a US territory. An airport was constructed 1937. Howland Islands Wake Islands Midway Islands Johnston Islands

10. OK, we go far north now. I want the biggest of the Southern Kuriles Islands. The Japanese call these islands their Northern territories and claim from Russia who snatched them after World War II. I want the Japanese name of the island. Kunashiri Island Habomai Island Shikotan Island Etorofu Island

11. We stay in the area. Which is the biggest of the Northern Kuriles Islands? These islands also belonged to USSR before World War II. I want the Russian name. Urup Paramushir Iturup Kunashir

12. To Russia now. This Arctic Island group was named after a royal or rather imperial person. I want the name of the entire archipelago. George Land Franz Josef Land Alexandra Land Wilczek Land

13. Now to a small Norwegian island, formally part of Svalbard. Highest mountain is Mount Misery, 536 m. Contains a radio- and a meteorological station. Bjornoya Jan Mayen Edgeoya Bouvetoya

14. Now we go to a Finnish self governed island where almost all the citizens speak Swedish. Bornholm Oland Aland Gotland

15. Back south again. I want the name of a Brazilian island which constitutes a territory within this country. It was formerly used as a penal colony. Fernando Poo Santa Maria Sao Miguel Fernando de Noronha

16. Now I want the English name of Isla Soledad. This is the Argentinian name for one of the Falkland Islands. West Falkland East Falkland Pebble Island South Georgia

17. And then I want the English name for the Gran Malvina Island. East Falkland South Georgia Pebble Island West Falkland

18. This African island in the Atlantic was called Pagalu a short period in the 70s but has now regained its old name. What is that? Annobon Principe Sao Tome Cape Verde

19. Another one for the bilingual: What is the present name of Christmas Island, now part of a small independent Pacific island republic. Kiribati Kiritimati Tuvalu Vanuatu

20. We are in another independent Pacific island state. It used to be called Friendly Islands, but is now? Tonga Fiji Samoa Tahiti

21. Another Pacific archipelago used to be called Society Islands, but is now more known as: Samoa Tonga Fiji Tahiti

22. We go to the Arabic Sea now. These islands were ceded by the sultan of Masqat to Great Britain 1854 for a cable station, and ceded back to Oman 1967. Socotra Kuria Muria Masirah Dalak

23. Another bilingual. In Spanish these islands are called the Ladrone Islands, but they are more known to us as: Marshall Islands Guam Federated States of Micronesia Mariana Islands

24. Now to Papua and New Guinea. This used to be a German colony. Now I want the German names of a couple of the islands. I start with the biggest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, in English called New Britain. We are talking about the German colonial names now. Neu-Mecklenburg Neu-Britannien Neu-Hannover Neu-Pommern

25. And what about New Ireland? Neu-Pommern Neu-Lauenburg Neu-Hannover Neu-Mecklenburg