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The island of Tasmania is governed by which country?

posted Jan 18, 2021 by Varuna Magar

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By the time the first explorers from the West reached the remote Chilean island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in 1722.....

posted Sep 14, 2022 by Akriti

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Which island was sold by Genoa to France in 1764, was ruled by Britain for two years from 1794 to 1796............

posted Jun 17, 2022 by Varun Kumar

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Where is the small volcanic island of Surtsey?

posted Jul 12, 2019 by Sandeep Bedi

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What is the largest island of Denmark, that includes the cities of Copenhagen and Helsingǿr?

posted Aug 30, 2019 by Madhavi Latha

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Apart from being surrounded by water, what defines an "island" ?

posted Nov 20, 2020 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Which is claimed to be the smallest inhabited island?

posted Nov 25, 2020 by Upma

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Which island is famous for its carved stone statues?

posted Nov 8, 2019 by Manish Tiwari

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What is unusual about Rockall, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean? [MCQ]

posted Jan 29, 2018 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Where are the islands called Greene, Herschel, Jack, Kitchener, Russell, St. Joseph, Thibault and Tyson?

posted Apr 20, 2021 by Karan Joglekar

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People from which country or area are the first recorded to have settled on the Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas?

posted Mar 23, 2021 by Rahul Chandel

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The islands of Skye and Mull are in which island group? [MCQ]

posted Mar 9, 2018 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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What is the name of the Spanish island group in the Mediterranean Sea that includes Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza............

posted Aug 11, 2022 by Vishal

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Which South Korean island that was shelled by North Korean artillery on 23 November 2010?

posted Jan 19, 2021 by Varun Kumar

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What is the name of the group of 140 islands 25 miles south west of Lands End, Cornwall, England?

posted Mar 6, 2017 by Parampreet Kaur

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The New Zealand government proposes to create a 620,000 sq km Ocean Sanctuary in 2016 round what island or islands?

posted May 3, 2016 by Pardeep Kohli

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Which is the largest of Britain's Channel Islands?

posted Jan 25, 2022 by Dilbagh

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From 1815 until 1864, the Ionian Islands off the western coasts of Greece were under the protection of which country? [MCQ]

posted Feb 16, 2018 by Ujjwal Mehra

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A small sandbar island emerged in the Bay of Bengal in 1970. Which 2 countries had claimed sovereignty?

posted Jan 21, 2016 by Brijesh Talwar

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Which island is the home to a breed of tailless cat?

posted Jul 30, 2021 by Anuradha Tabyal

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The islands of Tristan da Cunha are 2,816 kilometres from the nearest land. What country is closest to them?

posted Nov 14, 2018 by Samardeep Acharya

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Which country has Nukualofa, on the island of Tonjatabu, as its capital?

posted Nov 7, 2016 by Atif

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Staten Island, New York, is at the mouth of which river?

posted Feb 8, 2016 by Karan Joglekar

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The Marquesas Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean are a group of volcanic islands and an overseas collectivity........

posted Jan 30, 2023 by Udita

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What is the name of the long narrow island off the east coast of Russia?

posted Sep 11, 2019 by Upma

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Where are the Dodecanese Islands?

posted Aug 30, 2021 by Anamika

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Apart from tourism, what are industries of the islands of Zanzibar?

posted Dec 14, 2021 by Ankur Athari

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The island known in ancient myth and legend as the “land of the lotus eaters”, where Odysseus was said............

posted Apr 13, 2022 by Deepak Chitragar

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The island of Nishinoshima (Ogasawara) south southeast of Tokyo is virtually exclusively occupied by what?

posted Jun 23, 2020 by Swati Arora

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Which is the nearest neighbour of the island of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States?

posted Aug 30, 2018 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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Where are the islands called Amherst, Bayfield, Greene, Simcoe, High Bluff, Nicholson, Waupoos and Wolfe?

posted May 30, 2019 by Varuna Magar

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Which is a lighthouse on a rocky island off the coast of Cork?

posted Feb 17, 2017 by Madhavi Latha

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Which island is directly south of Cuba?

posted Jul 3, 2019 by Mohammad

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Marajó is an island at the mouth of which river?

posted Mar 7, 2017 by Sidharth Malhotra

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Which is a Pacific Island that is famous for its large statues?

posted Oct 15, 2019 by Rahul Vaidya

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Where are the Comoros, or the Comoro Islands?

posted Oct 28, 2020 by Ujjwal Mehra

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The islands of Alderney, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and Sark are administered directly by a..................

posted Dec 23, 2019 by Aman

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Which country occupies the islands called Luzon, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Mindanao, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi?

posted May 9, 2020 by Ankur Athari

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Samoa, Hawaii and the Tokelau Islands are part of which geographic area?

posted Feb 17, 2020 by Akriti

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Which are the oldest of the Galápagos Islands?

posted Aug 10, 2020 by Ankur Athari

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Where are the Paracel Islands?

posted Aug 19, 2019 by Atif

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Which book, written in Guernsey and published in 1866, dealt with events in the early 19th century upon the island? [MCQ]

posted Apr 5, 2018 by Mohammad

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When was the island and port of Lagos, part of what is now the most populous city in Africa, ceded to Great Britain? [MCQ]

posted Jul 26, 2018 by Varun Kumar

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Manus Island off the coast of Papua New Guinea houses a detention centre on behalf of which country?

posted Oct 20, 2017 by Mohammad

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Which two countries are closest to the islands and archipelagos of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe?

posted Oct 10, 2017 by Samardeep Acharya

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How many islands greater than 1,500 sq.km are shown in a map of New Zealand and name them?

posted Sep 11, 2017 by Upma

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Where is Lantau Island?

posted Mar 4, 2017 by Chahat Sharma

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Which of these islands is part of Indonesia?

posted Nov 24, 2017 by Parampreet Kaur

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On which island are 16 of Japan's 20 largest cities and Mount Fujiyama?

posted Jan 27, 2016 by Rahul Chandel

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The many hundreds of islands in the western Pacific region known as Micronesia includes five sovereign nations..........

posted Mar 18, 2020 by Ujjwal Mehra