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Remote Islands 2

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Remote Islands 2 game quiz
"Can you name these 25 remote islands."

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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.
    Prince Edward Island
    Marion Island
    Heard 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
    Cartier Island
    Ashmore Island
    Heard 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.
    Cocos Island
    Ashmore Island
    Christmas 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.
    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.
    Antipodes Island
    Chatham Island
    Campbell Island
    Bounty 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
    Jarvis Island
    Kingman Reef
    Wake Island


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.
    Bouvetoya
    Edgeoya
    Bjornoya
    Jan Mayen


14. Now we go to a Finnish self governed island where almost all the citizens speak Swedish.
    Aland
    Gotland
    Oland
    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 Poo
    Fernando de Noronha
    Sao Miguel
    Santa Maria


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


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?
    Sao Tome
    Cape Verde
    Principe
    Annobon


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


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


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


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.
    Kuria Muria
    Masirah
    Socotra
    Dalak


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


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


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