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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. |
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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. |
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This island also belongs to Australia. The highest peak on the island is Mount Gower, 875 m. |
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This Australian island used to be called Van Diemen's land. |
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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. |
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This is also an Australian External Territory, and it consists of several uninhabited reefs or islands, among them the Coringa Islands. |
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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. |
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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. |
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These islands are part of the Phoenix Islands. Together with another island they constitute a US territory. An airport was constructed 1937. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To Russia now. This Arctic Island group was named after a royal or rather imperial person. I want the name of the entire archipelago. |
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Now to a small Norwegian island, formally part of Svalbard. Highest mountain is Mount Misery, 536 m. Contains a radio- and a meteorological station. |
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Now we go to a Finnish self governed island where almost all the citizens speak Swedish. |
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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. |
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Now I want the English name of Isla Soledad. This is the Argentinian name for one of the Falkland Islands. |
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And then I want the English name for the Gran Malvina Island. |
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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? |
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Another one for the bilingual: What is the present name of Christmas Island, now part of a small independent Pacific island republic. |
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We are in another independent Pacific island state. It used to be called Friendly Islands, but is now? |
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Another Pacific archipelago used to be called Society Islands, but is now more known as: |
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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. |
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Another bilingual. In Spanish these islands are called the Ladrone Islands, but they are more known to us as: |
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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. |
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And what about New Ireland? |
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