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| Indonesia's smallest province, and home to most of its Hindu minority – a popular tourist destination |
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Bali |
| Lies immediately to the east of Java, from which it's separated by the strait to which it gives its name | ||
| The largest island in the Pacific Ocean; the world's third largest, and the only one that's administered by three different countries (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia) |
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Borneo |
| Kalimantan is the Indonesian name for, and the name used in English for the Indonesian part of | ||
| Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia), Brunei (now a sovereign state): the last two (Sarawak and Brunei) are former British colonies | ||
Name given to a Pacific island discovered by Captain Cook in 1777; its current official name is a
transliteration of this name into the local (Gilbertese) language; claimed by the USA in 1856, but ceded to the Republic of Kiribati
in 1983; occupied by the Allies during WWII, and the site of Britain's first H–bomb tests in 1957
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Christmas Island |
| Island group between Madagascar and mainland Africa (Indian Ocean) |
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Comoros |
| Pacific group – largest are Rarotonga, Palmerston and Mangaia |
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Cook Islands |
| Pacific island, famous for its (hieroglyphics and) 900 stone statues (moai) |
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Easter Island |
| Known in the local language (which has the same name) as Rapa Nui | ||
| Atoll in the Marshall Islands (central Pacific Ocean) where the first hydrogen bomb was detonated in 1952 |
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Eniwetok |
| Formerly known as the Cannibal Islands |
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Fiji |
| On the Equator, approx. 600 miles West of Ecuador |
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Galapagos Islands |
| Isabela, Santa Cruz, San Cristóbal, San Salvador and Fernandina are the largest islands in the | ||
| Guy Fawkes Island (Isla Guy Fawkes) is a group of small uninhabited islands in | ||
| Named after a village in Spain, which was the birthplace of Pedro de Ortega Valencia, a member of the expedition that discovered it (the island) in 1568 (the expedition was led by Álvaro de Mendaña) |
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Guadalcanal |
| Japan's second largest island |
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Hokkaido |
| Japan's largest island: home to about 83% of the country's population (104 million out of 125 million, in 2021) |
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Honshu |
| Amsterdam Island, Kerguelen, Crozet Island, McDonald Island |
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Indian Ocean |
| Western New Guinea – the western half of New Guinea, known from 1973 to 2002 as Irian Jaya – is part of (country) |
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Indonesia |
| Home to 60 per cent of the population of Indonesia, making it the world's most populous island |
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Java |
| Chilean island (group) on which Alexander Selkirk was cast away – renamed Robinson Crusoe Island 1966 |
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Juan Fernandez |
| Alaska's largest island (in the Gulf of Alaska, off the south–eastern coast), and the USA's second largest after Hawai'i; part of the archipelago of the same name; has a bear named after it |
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Kodiak |
| Indonesian island after which the World's largest lizard is named |
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Komodo |
| Chain of islands from Hokkaido (Japan) to the Kamcharka peninsula (Russia) – the southernmost of which are subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between the two countries |
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Kuril Islands |
| Island in the Tasman Sea, discovered in 1788 by a convict ship on its way from Sydney to Norfolk Island; named after a British admiral, best known for his service during the American War of Independence |
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Lord Howe Island |
| Largest island in the Philippines |
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Luzon |
| Largest island in the Indian Ocean; home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, 80% of which are endemic to it – including the lemurs and the cat–like fossa |
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Madagascar |
| The world's fourth largest island, and the largest that's a single sovereign state in its own right | ||
| Separated from the African mainland by the Mozambique Channel
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| Largest of the Seychelles |
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Mahé |
| In the Indian Ocean, 400 miles South–West of Sri Lanka |
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Maldives |
| Collective name for Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues (after the 16th–century Portuguese explorer who 'discovered' them) |
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Mascarene Islands |
| Second largest of the Hawaiian islands (after Hawaii) |
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Maui |
| Largest of the Mascarene Islands |
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Mauritius |
| The dodo (extinct since the mid–to–late 17th century) was native to | ||
| Island in the Comoro group that is an overseas region and department of France |
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Mayotte |
| Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu are the four sovereign states in (subregion of Oceania) |
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Melanesia |
| Name shared by Australia's second largest island (2,234 sqare miles) and Canada's eighth largest (16,274) |
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Melville Island |
| Second–largest island in the Philippines (after Luzon) |
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Mindanao |
| Hawaiian island, has the world's highest seas cliffs |
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Moloka'I |
| Indonesian islands, once known as the Spice Islands |
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Moluccas (Maluku) |
| Irian Jaya was the name used from 1973 to 2002 for the Indonesian (western) part of |
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New Guinea |
| Third largest of the Hawaiian islands (see Maui), and home to 80% of its population |
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Oahu |
| Honolulu, Pearl Harbor and Waikiki Beach are on | ||
| Mt. Pinatubo: volcano in the |
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Philippines |
| Island group off British Columbia, north of Vancouver Island; includes Graham Island, Moresby Island, and about 150 smaller islands |
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Queen Charlotte Islands |
| Island between Madagascar and Mauritius that is an overseas region and department of France |
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Réunion |
| Russia's largest island (part of the Japanese group – slightly smaller than Hokkaido) |
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Sakhalin |
| Island off Los Angeles: largest town is Avalon, which has been home at different times to Zane Grey and Marilyn Monroe |
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Santa Catalina |
| Approx 800 miles NE of (the northern tip of) Madagascar (Indian Ocean) |
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Seychelles |
| Guadalcanal, Malaita, San Cristobal, New Georgia, Santa Isabel |
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Solomon Islands |
| Formerly known as Serendip |
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Sri Lanka |
| Adams Peak is a mountain on, Adam's Bridge is a group of islands off | ||
| South of South Island – New Zealand's third–largest island |
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Stewart Island |
| The largest island belonging wholly to Indonesia |
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Sumatra |
| Largest of the Society Islands (the Society Islands are part of the French Overseas Country of French Polynesia); visited by Captains Cook and Bligh |
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Tahiti |
| Named Van Dieman's Land by Abel Tasman, on discovery in 1642, after his sponsor, the Governor–General of the Dutch East Indies; proved to be an island in 1799 by Bass and Flinders; established as a British colony in 1825, and officially renamed in 1856 |
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Tasmania |
| Nicknamed the Apple Island | ||
| Port Arthur (former convict settlement) | ||
| Part of Indonesia; gives its name to the sea on which Darwin is situated |
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Timor |
| Once known as 'the Friendly Islands', because of the congenial reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773 |
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Tonga |
| Separated from mainland Canada by the Juan de Fuca Strait |
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Vancouver Island |
| Received by Britain from Germany, in 1890, in return for Heligoland |
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Zanzibar |
| Joined Tanganyika, 1963, to form the Republic of Tanzania | ||
| Pemba (famous for its cloves) and Mafia Island are two of the three main islands of (the archipelago of) |
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