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1. What direction do I travel to get from Dublin to the Isle of Skye?
2. To get from Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory to Bali, you must travel in what direction, basically?
3. If you wanted to travel the "26 miles across the sea" to Santa Catalina ("the island of romance") and you were leaving from Los Angeles, what direction would you go?
4. To see the site of the only land battle of World War II fought on American soil, you would need to travel to Attu, in the Aleutians. If you leave Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island and hop to Amchitka, Kiska, and then Attu, in what general direction are you hopping?
5. The Canary Islands belong to Spain, but to get from Madrid in central Spain to the Canaries takes a hop of around 1000 miles. What direction must one hop to get from Madrid to the islands?
6. The famous island of Zanzibar is part of the modern African nation of Tanzania. Dar Es Salaam is the former capital of Tanzania. To get from Dar Es Salaam to Zanzibar requires a hop in what direction?
7. Easter Island belongs to Chile. To sail from Santiago, Chile's capital, to Easter Island, you would be going basically which direction?
8. Let's say we want to go from Easter Island to Christmas Island. First let's head for Perth, since Christmas Island belongs to Australia. From Perth we have to travel about 1600 more miles in what direction to get to Christmas Island?
9. St. Helena was the second and final exile island for Napoleon Bonaparte. We know that Elba, his first exile site, is west of Italy. But what country is St. Helena west of?
10. Recent excavations on the island of Santorini, once known as Thera, indicate it may have been Plato's Atlantis, especially since the island blew up about 3600 years ago. Crete, generally considered the center of Minoan civilization, lies 69 miles from Santorini. To hop from Crete to Santorini, one must sail in what direction?
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