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Islands & Archipelagos Quiz
Islands & Archipelagos Quiz
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Islands are landmasses completely surrounded by water, ranging from tiny coral atolls to vast landmasses like Greenland and Australia. Archipelagos are chains or clusters of island...
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All 20 questions in this Islands & Archipelagos quiz
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Which island nation in the Pacific was the site of the world's largest nuclear tests?
- A. Tonga
- B. Samoa
- C. Marshall Islands
- D. Palau
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Which Scottish archiepeelago includes the islands of Mainland Hoy and South Ronaldsay?
- A. Inner Hebrides
- B. Shetland Islands
- C. Orkney Islands
- D. Outer Hebrides
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What is the name of the volcanic archiepeelago in the Pacific that forms the nation of Vanuatu?
- A. Melanesian Islands
- B. Vanuatu Archiepeelago
- C. New Hebrides
- D. Solomon Chain
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Which is the world's largest island country?
- A. Madagascar
- B. Indonesia
- C. United Kingdom
- D. Japan
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What is the name of the group of volcanic islands in the Pacific known as the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean due to their unique wildlife?
- A. Aldabra Atoll
- B. Zanzibar
- C. Comoros
- D. Socotra
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Which island contains the world's largest tropical rainforest after the Amazon?
- A. New Guinea
- B. Madagascar
- C. Borneo
- D. Sumatra
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What is the name of the large island that forms part of Canada and is the world's fifth largest island?
- A. Newfoundland
- B. Ellesmere Island
- C. Baffin Island
- D. Prince Edward Island
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What is the name of the group of islands in the Indian Ocean that includes Mauritius and has a colonial history involving the dodo?
- A. Chagos Islands
- B. Lakshadweep
- C. Mascarene Islands
- D. Seychelles
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The Marsupial 'Quokka' is famous for living on Rottnest Island in which country?
- A. Australia
- B. New Zealand
- C. Indonesia
- D. Fiji
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What are the Channel Islands and what is their unique constitutional status?
- A. Crown Deepeendencies located in the English Channel near the coast of France that are not part of the United Kingdom but are self-governing deepeendencies of the British Crown
- B. French islands off the coast of Normandy
- C. British islands that are part of the United Kingdom
- D. Indeepeendent islands between Britain and France
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What is the island of Sumatra and what notable features does it possess?
- A. A volcanic island in the Andaman Sea belonging to Myanmar
- B. A large island in the Pacific known for its coral reefs
- C. The sixth largest island in the world and the westernmost large island of Indonesia home to critically endangered orangutans tigers and rhinos in some of the world's oldest rainforests
- D. The second largest island in Indonesia known only for its beaches
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Which island is known as the Pearl of the Orient Seas?
- A. Luzon
- B. Philippines
- C. Bali
- D. Ceylon
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What is the Isle of Man and what is its constitutional status?
- A. A Crown Deepeendency in the Irish Sea that is self-governing and not part of the United Kingdom with its own parliament (Tynwald) claimed to be the world's oldest continuous parliament
- B. A British island that is part of England
- C. An indeepeendent island republic
- D. A French island in the Irish Sea
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What is the name of the island chain that forms the westernmost United States territory in the Pacific?
- A. American Samoa
- B. Guam
- C. Wake Island
- D. Northern Mariana Islands
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What is the name of the island nation in the Indian Ocean famous for its vanilla and ylang-ylang production?
- A. Seychelles
- B. Mayotte
- C. Comoros
- D. Runion
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What is the name of the chain of islands including Trinidad and Tobago and what sea do they border?
- A. The Greater Antilles bordering the Gulf of Mexico
- B. The Lesser Antilles forming the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea
- C. The ABC Islands bordering the Caribbean
- D. The Bahamas bordering the Atlantic
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What are the Cyclades and where are they located?
- A. A group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea arranged in a rough circle around the sacred island of Delos
- B. A chain of Albanian islands in the Adriatic
- C. A chain of Turkish islands in the Black Sea
- D. An Italian archiepeelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea
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What is the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and to which country do they belong?
- A. An indeepeendent island nation in the Bay of Bengal
- B. A British Overseas Territory in the Indian Ocean
- C. A Myanmarese territory in the Andaman Sea
- D. An archiepeelago belonging to India located in the Bay of Bengal that was used as a epeenal colony during British rule and is home to some of the world's last uncontacted indigenous tribes
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What is Borneo and which countries share it?
- A. The third largest island in the world shared between Indonesia Malaysia and Brunei
- B. An island in the Indian Ocean shared between India and Sri Lanka
- C. A Pacific island belonging to Japan
- D. An island belonging entirely to Indonesia
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Which is the largest island?
- A. Borneo
- B. Greenland
- C. New Guinea
- D. Australia