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Islands & Archipelagos Quiz
Islands & Archipelagos · Medium
20 questions · Unlimited attempts · Free online practice
From tiny tropical atolls to the world's largest landmasses surrounded by water, islands and archipelagos are among Earth's most fascinating geographical features. Learning about t...
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All 20 questions in this Islands & Archipelagos quiz
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What is the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and to which country do they belong?
- A. An independent 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 archipelago belonging to India located in the Bay of Bengal that was used as a penal 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 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 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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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 state in Southeast Asia that is one of the world's smallest and wealthiest countries due to oil and gas?
- A. Singapore
- B. East Timor
- C. Maldives
- D. Brunei
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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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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 is the island of Tierra del Fuego and between which two countries is it divided?
- A. An Australian island divided between Australia and New Zealand
- B. A Chilean island with no international border
- C. A UK Overseas Territory near the Falkland Islands
- D. The southernmost major island on Earth divided between Chile and Argentina at the southern tip of South America
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What are the Channel Islands and what is their unique constitutional status?
- A. Crown Dependencies located in the English Channel near the coast of France that are not part of the United Kingdom but are self-governing dependencies of the British Crown
- B. French islands off the coast of Normandy
- C. British islands that are part of the United Kingdom
- D. Independent islands between Britain and France
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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 archipelago 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 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 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 archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea
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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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Which island is the largest in the Mediterranean Sea?
- A. Sicily
- B. Sardinia
- C. Crete
- D. Cyprus
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What is the second largest island in the world?
- A. New Guinea
- B. Greenland
- C. Baffin Island
- D. Borneo
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What is the name of the large island group in the South Pacific that includes Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Fiji and Vanuatu?
- A. Micronesia
- B. Polynesia
- C. Melanesia
- D. Australasia
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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 island in the Atlantic that belongs to the United Kingdom and where the local economy was destroyed when the volcano erupted in 1995?
- A. Saint Helena
- B. Ascension Island
- C. Tristan da Cunha
- D. Montserrat
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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