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"Can you name these 25 remote islands."


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.
    McDonald Island
    Prince Edward Island
    Marion Island
    Heard 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.
    Cartier Island
    McDonald Island
    Heard Island
    Ashmore Island


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


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


6. This is also an Australian External Territory, and it consists of several uninhabited reefs or islands, among them the Coringa Islands.
    Cocos Islands
    Antipode Islands
    Bounty Islands
    Coral Sea 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.
    Chatham Island
    Campbell Island
    Bounty 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.
    Palmyra Reef
    Wake Island
    Kingman Reef
    Jarvis Island


9. These islands are part of the Phoenix Islands. Together with another island they constitute a US territory. An airport was constructed 1937.
    Johnston Islands
    Midway Islands
    Howland Islands
    Wake 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
    Etorofu Island
    Shikotan Island
    Habomai 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.
    Edgeoya
    Bjornoya
    Jan Mayen
    Bouvetoya


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


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 de Noronha
    Sao Miguel
    Fernando Poo
    Santa MariaPopulation of falkla


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


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


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?
    Tahiti
    Samoa
    Tonga
    Fiji


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


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
    Dalak
    Masirah
    Kuria Muria


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


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-Pommern
    Neu-Hannover
    Neu-Mecklenburg
    Neu-Britannien


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


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