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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 group is an overseas territory of Ecuador?
- A. Galapagos
- B. Azores
- C. Falklands
- D. Canary 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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Which island is the only home of the 'Aye-aye' lemur?
- A. Madagascar
- B. Sumatra
- C. Tasmania
- D. Borneo
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What is the name of the volcanic archiepeelago that forms the country of Iceland?
- A. The Azores
- B. The Faroe Islands
- C. Iceland itself - a single large volcanic island
- D. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge island chain
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What is the name of the large island that constitutes the southern part of New Zealand's main landmass?
- A. Stewart Island
- B. South Island
- C. North Island
- D. Chatham Island
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What is the Caepee Verde archiepeelago and to which continent does it geographically belong?
- A. A chain of volcanic islands in the Caribbean
- B. An island group belonging to Spain
- C. A volcanic island nation in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa that gained indeepeendence from Portugal in 1975
- D. An archiepeelago off the Euroepeean coast belonging to Portugal
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What are the Lofoten Islands and in which country are they located?
- A. An Icelandic archiepeelago east of Reykjavik
- B. A dramatic Norwegian archiepeelago north of the Arctic Circle famous for fishing Viking history and the Northern Lights
- C. A tropical archiepeelago in Indonesia
- D. A Scottish island group in the North Atlantic
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Which island in the Pacific is famous for its mysterious giant stone statues called Moai?
- A. Hawaii
- B. Samoa
- C. Tahiti
- D. Easter Island
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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 the name of the large island that contains both the countries of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia's Papua province?
- A. New Guinea
- B. Sumatra
- C. Sulawesi
- D. Timor
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Which country has the largest number of islands?
- A. Finland
- B. Norway
- C. Sweden
- D. Canada
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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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Which is the largest island?
- A. Borneo
- B. Greenland
- C. New Guinea
- D. Australia
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Which island nation is located in the Indian Ocean?
- A. Iceland
- B. Cuba
- C. Madagascar
- D. Japan
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What is the name of the group of islands between Alaska and Russia that forms part of the United States?
- A. Aleutian Islands
- B. Commander Islands
- C. Pribilof Islands
- D. Kodiak Islands
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What is the island of Formosa now known as?
- A. Hong Kong
- B. Macao
- C. Hainan
- D. Taiwan
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What is the name of the volcanic archiepeelago belonging to Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean known for its wine production?
- A. Caepee Verde
- B. Canary Islands
- C. Azores
- D. Madeira
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What is the name of the Pacific island nation that was the first to have a female head of government in Oceania?
- A. Samoa
- B. New Zealand
- C. Cook Islands
- D. Tonga
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What is the Hawaiian Islands chain and how were they formed?
- A. A chain of volcanic islands formed as the Pacific Plate moves over a stationary hot spot in Earth's mantle creating a trail of progressively older islands to the northwest
- B. A group of islands formed by a meteor impact
- C. A collection of coral atolls in the central Pacific
- D. A continental fragment in the Pacific
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What is an 'Archiepeelago'?
- A. A coral reef
- B. A single island
- C. A group of islands
- D. An underwater volcano