Islands Study Guide

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Greenland 21 Papua New Guinea 19 Cyprus 18 Madagascar 16 Cuba 16 Easter Island 16 Malta 15 Iceland 15 Crete 15 Long Island 14 Sicily 14 Jamaica 13 Ireland 13 Oahu 12 Hawaii 12 the Aleutians 12 the Philippines 12 Pitcairn Island 11 New Zealand 11 Luzon 11 the Channel Islands 11 St. Helena 10 Indonesia 10 Borneo 10 Tasmania 9 Staten Island 9 Spain 9 Hispaniola 9 Guam 9 Canada 9 Bermuda 9 Elba 9 Martinique 8 Martha's Vineyard 8 Greece 8 Capri 8 Alcatraz 8 the U.S. Virgin Islands 8

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Greenland 21x $376 avg J:3 DJ:18

J $100 1998 The Danes call this island dependency in the north Atlantic Gronland

DJ $600 1993 The largest town on this island is Godthaab, known as Nuk in the Eskimo language

J $100 1996 This Danish island has the largest ice mass outside of Antarctica

Malta 15x 16.7% stumper $1,283 avg J:3 DJ:9 FJ:3

J $300 1984 Original nest of Sam Spade's falcon

J $500 1996 This island nation just south of Sicily has a population density of over 3,000 per square mile

DJ $1,000 DD 1993 This British colony lying about 60 miles south of Sicily became independent in 1964

Iceland 15x $929 avg J:7 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $200 2020 Fittingly, this country is home to Europe's largest glacier

J $600 2004 Vatnajokull, Europe's largest glacier, covers nearly 3,200 square miles of this island country

DJ $1,000 DD 1988 On its stamps, the name of this island country is spelled "I-S-L-A-N-D"

Crete 15x 14.3% stumper $693 avg J:6 DJ:8 FJ:1

J $100 1993 Tourist attractions on this Greek isiand include the Minoan ruins at Knossos & Phaestos

J $500 1995 It was the center of the Minoan civilization

J $1,000 2023 On this Greek island you can soak up the sun on Elafonisi Beach or tour the ruins of the ancient palace of Knossos

Ireland 13x 8.3% stumper $550 avg J:4 DJ:8 FJ:1

J $100 1997 It's divided into 4 historical provinces: Connaught, Leinster, Munster & Ulster

DJ $800 2021 The first arrivals on this Western European island were Stone Age hunter-fishers in areas such as Antrim & Down

DJ $1,200 2016 This island of 6 million is shared between one nation & part o' another

Pitcairn Island 11x 11.1% stumper $867 avg DJ:9 FJ:2

DJ $400 1996 Nearly all the inhabitants of this island are descendants of Bounty mutineers

DJ $600 1996 In 1856 some descendants of the Bounty mutineers left this island & settled on Norfolk

DJ $1,000 DD 2000 Adamstown, this island's only village, is located on its northern coast near Bounty Bay

New Zealand 11x 9.1% stumper $627 avg J:3 DJ:8

J $100 1995 Now uninhabited, this country's Auckland Islands were once the site of a whaling station

DJ $600 DD 1999 We're not pulling the wool over your eyes when we tell you it was the first nation to grant women the right to vote

J $1,200 DD 1992 Under a special agreement, the Cook Islands are self-governing & the people are citizens of this country

the Channel Islands 11x 60.0% stumper $1,070 avg J:2 DJ:8 FJ:1

J $200 2021 Jersey & Guernsey are in this group named for its location between England & France

J $800 2004 For administrative purposes, this island group is divided into 2 bailiwicks: Jersey & Guernsey

DJ $1,000 1988 These islands were the only British territory occupied by the Germans in WWII

Tasmania 9x 22.2% stumper $711 avg J:2 DJ:7

DJ $200 2001 In 1856 those little devils on Van Diemen's Land changed its name to this

DJ $800 1994 This island, Australia's smallest state, was once connected to the Australian mainland

DJ $2,500 DD 1988 At 90%, this smallest Australian state has the highest % of Australian-born people

Staten Island 9x $600 avg J:3 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $100 1989 To get there from Brooklyn or N.J. you can cross a bridge, but you have to take a ferry from Manhattan

DJ $500 DD 1997 In 1609, Henry Hudson named this least populous NYC borough for the Dutch legislature

DJ $2,400 DD 2007 Tottenville on this island southwest of Manhattan is New York state's southernmost point

Spain 9x $967 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $300 1987 1 of the 1st Pacific islands to be settled by Europeans, Guam was colonized by this country by the 1690s

J $600 2022 Ibiza, Tenerife

DJ $1,200 2013 Minorca

Hispaniola 9x $725 avg DJ:8 FJ:1

DJ $200 1996 Rainfall on this island that's home to Haiti averages 55 inches per year

DJ $600 2000 Port-au-Prince

DJ $2,000 2018 Haiti & the Dominican Republic share custody of this island

Bermuda 9x $762 avg J:1 DJ:7 FJ:1

DJ $200 1987 This tiny British colony in the Atlantic is famous for knee-length shorts & pink coral beaches

J $500 2000 Uninhabited until 1609, this British island group 600 miles off Cape Hatteras now boasts about 62,000 people

DJ $1,200 2011 Until 1995, the U.S. maintained an air base on St. David's Island in this British group off the coast of Cape Hatteras

Elba 9x 25.0% stumper $562 avg J:1 DJ:7 FJ:1

DJ $200 1985 Napoleon escaped from this island to fight another hundred days

DJ $1,200 2018 The Mulini Villa, once home to Napoleon

FJ 1993 After its ruler left February 26, 1815, this island was restored to Tuscany

Greece 8x $500 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2022 Corfu

J $600 2011 Lemnos & Lesbos

DJ $1,200 2004 Corfu

Capri 8x 37.5% stumper $925 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $200 1995 It's the Italian island famous for its blue grotto

DJ $600 1990 Some say this Italian island, famous for its blue grotto, was home to the Sirens of Greek myth

DJ $1,000 1996 Tourist sites on this island in the Bay of Naples include the ruins of the 12 villas built by emperor Tiberius

Alcatraz 8x $1,200 avg DJ:8

DJ $200 1996 In 1972 this island once famous for its prison became part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area

DJ $600 1985 Spanish for "pelican", but appropriately called "The Rock" by its inhabitants

DJ $2,000 DD 2018 Income tax evader Al Capone spent a lot of time on this island from 1934 to 1939

Should-Know (15)

Tierra del Fuego 7x 14.3% stumper $714 avg DJ:7

DJ $200 1991 The name of these South American islands is Spanish for "land of fire"

DJ $600 1992 Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world, lies on Argentina's side of this island

DJ $1,000 1994 Most of the oil produced by Chile comes from the Strait of Magellan & this island

the Falklands 7x $467 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $400 2021 Rabbit Island & Sea Lion Island are in this disputed South American group

DJ $800 2018 2 R.N. ships named HMS Invincible saw action in these south Atlantic islands, one in WWI & the second, 68 years later

FJ 1993 These islands about 400 miles from Cape Horn were named for a British treasurer of the Navy

Tahiti 7x $329 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $200 2002 The largest of the Society Islands, this French island in the Pacific has over 120,000 people

DJ $800 2008 The Isthmus of Taravao separates the 2 sections that make up this largest French Polynesian island

DJ $200 2000 If you travel to French Polynesia, your plane will land at Faaa Int'l Airport near Papeete on this island

Italy 7x 42.9% stumper $871 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 2000 Sicily is this country's largest region in area

J $1,000 2011 Sardinia

J $200 2009 Sicily

Corsica 7x 16.7% stumper $683 avg J:4 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 1992 In 1943 this island of Napoleon's birth became the 1st French territory liberated from the Nazis

J $800 2002 In 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte was born on this Mediterranean isle

DJ $2,000 2007 Although French is the official language of this large island, the native tongue of the residents is a dialect of Italian

the Azores 6x $1,100 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $400 2001 The westernmost point of this Portuguese island group is only about 1,200 miles from Newfoundland

DJ $800 1995 Sao Miguel is the largest of the 9 main islands that make up this Portuguese archipelago

J $1,000 2004 This Portuguese group in the N. Atlantic was uninhabited when discovered in 1427; now it has over 200,000 people

Devil's Island 6x 16.7% stumper $550 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1985 Papillon, the French "butterfly", was netted & brought to this prison

J $600 2007 Until the 1950s, this island off French Guiana was used as a penal colony

DJ $1,200 2014 Henri Charriere, aka Papillon, wrote a popular account of escaping this island prison on a coconut raft

Denmark 6x 16.7% stumper $733 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $400 2019 The entrance to the Baltic Sea is the location of Zealand, this country's largest & most populous island

DJ $800 1996 Odense & Svendborg are major ports of Fyn, an island of this country

DJ $1,200 2023 In 2022 Canada got a land border with a second country, agreeing to split a tiny island near Greenland with this European nation

the Shetlands 5x $440 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2015 We'll pony up if you know there are about 100 of these islands about 100 miles north of mainland Scotland

J $600 2021 You can horse or pony around on scenic Fetlarin this Scottish group

DJ $400 2009 These islands famous for their ponies form the northernmost part of Scotland

the Falkland Islands 5x 25.0% stumper $1,575 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1987 Argentina calls them "Las Islas Malvinas"; Britain calls them this

DJ $800 2023 "Remain!" In 2013 people in this South Atlantic territory were nearly unanimous in their vote to stay under British rule

DJ $5,000 DD 2010 On January 10 this South Atlantic territory celebrates Margaret Thatcher Day

Majorca 5x $1,000 avg DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $800 1997 Palma, the capital of Spain's Balearic Islands, lies on this largest island of the group

DJ $1,200 2010 As its name indicates, it's a big island--in fact, the largest of Spain's Balearic islands

FJ 2016 This 1,400-square-mile tourist destination's name comes from a Latin word for "greater"

Montreal 4x 33.3% stumper $867 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $500 1991 Laval is the chief city of Jesus Island, which is just north of this French Canadian city

DJ $1,500 DD 2020 This island of more than 1.5 million people is near the confluence of the Ottawa River & St. Lawrence River

FJ 1987 Of Canada's 3 largest cities, the one that's on an island

Great Britain 4x $375 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1985 England, Scotland & Wales are on this island

J $500 1985 While the "3 Saints" belong to the U.S., Tortola & Virgin Gorda belong to this country

DJ $400 2016 With 60 million, it's the most populous island in Europe

Rhodes 4x 25.0% stumper $750 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1998 This "colossal" Greek island is the largest of the Dodecanese Islands

DJ $2,000 2013 Today, the only statues you'll find in its Mandraki harbor are 2 statues of a deer species unique to the island

DJ $400 2013 Around 226 B.C. a "colossal" earthquake destroyed the statue of Helios on this island

the Shetland Islands 4x $600 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2000 Principal exports of this archipelago north of Scotland include wool & its famous ponies

J $600 2013 A breed of horse & a breed of dog are named for these Scottish islands

DJ $1,000 1987 Britain's northernmost point is this group of Scottish islands north of the Orkneys

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Vancouver Island 3 Tobago 3 the Cook Islands 3 Scotland 3 Sardinia 3 Portugal 3 Pitcairn 3 Padre Island 3 Norway 3 Newfoundland 3 Jersey 3 Vancouver 3 the Netherlands 3 the North Sea 2 the Mediterranean Sea 2 the Mediterranean 2 the Mariana Islands 2 the Leeward Islands 2 the Hebrides 2 the Cyclades 2 the Baltic Sea 2 Sicily & Sardinia 2 Minorca 2 Mallorca & Menorca 2 Lesbos 2 Ithaca 2 Germany 2 Bob Hope 2 Aruba 2

Asia

39 answers | 229 clues

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Cyprus 18x 11.8% stumper $865 avg J:3 DJ:14 FJ:1

DJ $400 2023 In Turkish this island's name begins with a "K"; in Greek, with the equivalent, kappa

DJ $600 1999 Nicosia & Limassol are the only 2 cities with a population of over 100,000 in this country

J $1,000 DD 2013 A poet described this divided island as a "golden green leaf thrown into" the Mediterranean Sea

Cuba 16x 18.8% stumper $569 avg J:5 DJ:11

J $200 2015 "90 miles south of Key West, 90 trillion miles to the left of America"

J $600 2007 At about 43,000 square miles, it's the largest independent island nation in the western hemisphere

DJ $1,000 1997 The Windward Passage separates Haiti from this large Caribbean island to the northeast

Jamaica 13x 7.7% stumper $446 avg J:2 DJ:11

J $200 1998 Hey, mon! The Cayman Islands were colonized about 1734 by British settlers from this nearby island

DJ $600 1995 Montego Bay on this Caribbean island was once an Arawak Indian village

DJ $1,000 1995 Cockpit Country is an unusual area of deep limestone depressions on this 3rd-largest Caribbean island

the Philippines 12x $527 avg J:3 DJ:8 FJ:1

DJ $400 2017 Mindanao

DJ $600 1994 At 40,420 square miles, Luzon is this nation's largest island

DJ $1,000 1993 At 33 square miles, Itbayat is the largest of this country's Batan Islands

Luzon 11x 27.3% stumper $1,309 avg J:2 DJ:9

J $500 1996 The Bataan Peninsula is a mountainous area of this Philippine island

DJ $1,000 2000 Manila

J $500 1996 About half of the Philippines' rice crop is produced on this island, the nation's largest

Indonesia 10x 30.0% stumper $830 avg J:2 DJ:8

J $300 1984 Until 1949 a Dutch colony, now the world's most populous island nation

DJ $600 1995 This nation consists of most of the Greater & Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas & part of New Guinea

DJ $1,000 1989 Geographers divide this Asian country into 3 parts: the Greater & Lesser Sunda Islands & the Moluccas

Borneo 10x 30.0% stumper $1,030 avg J:4 DJ:6

J $300 1985 Worlds 3rd largest, some of its inhabitants are "wild men"

J $600 2024 Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei share this big island

DJ $1,000 1996 Malaysia's highest point, Mount Kinabalu, lies in the region of Sabah on this large island

Guam 9x 12.5% stumper $1,488 avg J:2 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $400 2007 Though ceded in 1898, this Pacific island didn't become a U.S. territory until 1950

J $500 1987 Largest of the Mariana Islands, we acquired it in 1898

DJ $1,000 1999 War in the Pacific National Historical Park on this U.S. territory honors Americans who fought in the Pacific in WWII

Canada 9x 14.3% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:5 FJ:2

DJ $200 1994 Baffin Island is part of the Franklin District of this country's Northwest Territories

J $800 2011 Ellesmere & Victoria Island

DJ $2,000 2012 MacKenzie King Island

Martinique 8x 25.0% stumper $1,912 avg DJ:8

DJ $800 1997 Napoleon's wife Josephine spent her first 15 years on this island whose capital is Fort-De-France

DJ $1,000 1997 In the West Indies, Dominica lies between Guadeloupe & this French island

DJ $800 1991 In 1635 France claimed this Caribbean island & built a settlement at St. Pierre

the U.S. Virgin Islands 8x 12.5% stumper $575 avg J:3 DJ:5

DJ $200 1996 Columbus named this Caribbean island group for St. Ursula & her 11,000 maidens

DJ $600 1994 U.S. island group that's part of the Leeward Islands

DJ $1,000 1985 Pt. Udall, in this island group, is called the easternmost American point in the Western Hemisphere

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Taiwan 7x $600 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $100 1991 Home to the nationalist Chinese, its name means "terraced bay"

DJ $800 2025 It's separated from mainland China by astraitof the same name

J $1,000 2009 Thisisland is only 100 miles from mainland China

Honshu 7x $486 avg J:1 DJ:6

J $200 2021 The Kanmon Undersea Tunnel connects Kyushu with this largest of the 4 main islands of Japan

DJ $800 1987 This largest of Japan's four main islands is sometimes referred to as "The Mainland"

DJ $1,000 1989 Japan's largest city, highest mountain & largest lake are located on this, its largest island

Sri Lanka 6x $867 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1991 While in this island country south of India, visit the gem mines near Ratnapura

J $600 2009 Buddhism & Hinduism are this island's principal religions

DJ $3,000 DD 2022 The Sinhalese people make up about 3/4 of its population

Krakatoa 6x $640 avg DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $400 1997 The 1883 volcanic explosion of this island produced one of the loudest sounds ever & an even smaller island

DJ $800 1993 By the time the smoke & debris cleared from this Indonesian island in 1883, 2/3 of it had disappeared

DJ $1,200 2010 Most of this island was destroyed by a volcanic explosion in August 1883

Java 6x 40.0% stumper $1,040 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 2001 More Indonesians live on this island, famous for its coffee, than on any other

DJ $800 1987 While Indonesia has over 13,000 islands, two-thirds of the people live on this 1

DJ $2,000 DD 2000 Jakarta

France 6x 16.7% stumper $883 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $200 1988 Saint-Pierre & Miquelon are all that's left of this country's colonial empire in Canada

J $500 1988 If you hold you family reunion on Reunion, you're on an island which belongs to this country

DJ $1,000 DD 1994 This country's Pacific Ocean territories include the Society Islands & the Tuamotu Archipelago

American Samoa 6x 40.0% stumper $680 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $400 2000 "Please, Sir, I want" this Polynesian island that dropped "Western" from its name in 1997

DJ $800 2000 In 1878 the U.S. acquired Pago Pago as a coaling station in this Pacific island group

DJ $1,200 2003 Administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, this territory consists of Tutuila & 6 other islands

Trinidad 5x 60.0% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 1987 West Indian island that's the home of the limbo dance & calypso music

DJ $600 1999 Let's calypso on down to this island's Icacos Point, the southernmost point in the West Indies

DJ $1,000 1985 West Indian island that's the home of the limbo dance & calypso music

Midway 4x 25.0% stumper $2,200 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 2007 This atoll 1,300 miles NW of Honolulu, the site of a 1942 naval battle, is actually 2 small islands: Sand & Eastern

J $1,000 2015 A turning point in WWII's Pacific campaign, this island is 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu

DJ $3,000 DD 2022 A June 1942 naval battle is named for this Pacific island whose name indicates its position between America & Asia

Christmas Island 4x $450 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1997 Kiribati's largest island is named for this ho-ho holiday

DJ $800 1992 Discovered by James Cook on the eve of December 25, 1777, this island became part of Kiribati in 1979

J $400 2023 The migration of thered crabsis an annual spectacle on this Indian Ocean island named for a holiday

China 4x 25.0% stumper $400 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 2001 Hong Kong

J $800 2009 Hainan

J $200 1996 The Paracel Islands are claimed by Vietnam but are administered by this northern neighbor

the Indian Ocean 4x $1,000 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 2000 Ocean in which you find Comoros, a group of 3 islands that broke from French rule in 1975

DJ $1,000 2000 A boat can take you round the Raa & Baa Atolls of the Maldives in this body of water

DJ $1,200 2025 The islands of the Seychelles are spread over hundreds of thousands of square miles in this ocean

Narragansett 4x 25.0% stumper $1,050 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $1,000 DD 2003 (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Providence, Rhode Island.) The original deed for the land that became Rhode Island wassignedby chiefs of this tribe, with the marks of an arrow & a canoe

J $1,000 2005 Before the Europeans, a few thousand of these Indians lived on the Rhode Island bay that shares their name

DJ $1,000 1994 The state has 38 islands, most of them in this bay

Worth Knowing (15)

The Naked and the Dead 3 Sumatra 3 Rhode Island 3 Hong Kong 3 Hokkaido 3 Formosa 3 the Solomons 2 the Midway Islands 2 Thailand 2 Reunion 2 Okinawa 2 Micronesia 2 Lord of the Flies 2 Japan 2 the Spice Islands 2

Other

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Long Island 14x 15.4% stumper $438 avg J:5 DJ:8 FJ:1

J $200 2012 Nassau & Suffolk Counties are on this New York island

DJ $1,200 2013 Great Neck & Amagansett

FJ 1987 Most populous island in the U.S., it has more people than 41 of the 50 states

Oahu 12x $367 avg J:7 DJ:5

J $100 1991 This 3rd largest island of Hawaii is home to about 80% of the state's population

J $500 DD 1991 This Hawaiian island's name means "the gathering place" & most people in the islands are gathered there

J $200 2015 It's home to the state capital

Hawaii 12x $317 avg J:7 DJ:5

J $100 2001 This state consists of 132 islands, but 124 of them have a combined area of only 3 square miles

J $600 2006 Cape Kumukahi is the easternmost point on this "Big Island"

J $100 1994 Formerly used for military target practice, Kahoolawe is the smallest of this state's main islands

the Aleutians 12x $558 avg J:3 DJ:9

DJ $200 1995 Attu in this Alaskan chain has only about a dozen clear days a year

DJ $800 1991 The largest one is Unimak

J $1,000 2002 Unimak, Adak & Unalaska are islands in this Alaskan chain

Martha's Vineyard 8x 12.5% stumper $1,262 avg J:2 DJ:6

DJ $200 1992 Some 17th century maps show this Massachusetts island as Martin's Vineyard

J $500 1990 In 1602 explorer Bartholomew Gosnold named this Massachusetts island for either his daughter or his mother-in-law

DJ $1,600 2009 Gay Head, on this island off Cape Cod, has been renamed Aquinnah

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Catalina 6x 33.3% stumper $883 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $400 2015 An old song says, "26 miles across the sea" this island "is a-waitin' for me"

J $500 1994 Chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr. once owned this California island "twenty six miles across the sea"

J $1,000 2017 For 3 decades, this California island's Avalon Ballroom has been home to the Jazz Trax music festival

the Aleutian Islands 5x $550 avg J:4 FJ:1

J $200 1991 When owned by the Russians, these Alaskan islands were known as the Catherine archipelago

J $600 2009 Unimak &Unalaska

J $1,000 2006 At 9,373 feet, Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak is the highest mountain in this archipelago

Manhattan 5x $300 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2020 Tradition says Peter Minuit bought this island from local Native Americans for the equivalent of $24

FJ 2012 At 22 square miles, it's the world's smallest island with a population exceeding 1 million, a figure it reached by 1880

J $200 1993 This island forms the smallest in area of New York City's 5 borroughs

the Bering Sea 4x 25.0% stumper $1,225 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $800 2024 Nunivak Island & the Pribilof Islands

DJ $2,500 DD 2011 Nunivak

DJ $800 2018 The Pribilof Islands

Russia 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2011 Bolshevik Island

DJ $1,600 2012 Sakhalin

DJ $200 1994 In the Bering Sea Little Diomede belongs to the U.S. & Big Diomede belongs to this country

Mackinac Island 4x 25.0% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1997 The name of this Michigan resort island is Chippewa for "great spirits" or "great turtle"

DJ $800 1994 This Michigan island once served as the headquarters of John Jacob Astor's fur company

J $1,000 2012 This Michigan island where no passenger cars are allowed was once a focal point of John Jacob Astor's fur trade

Kodiak 4x $825 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1988 Largest island off Alaska's Pacific coast; the largest bear on Earth lives on & is named after it

J $800 2017 The Karluk River on this largest Alaskan island is famous for its red salmon, but you'll have to fight the bears for them

DJ $2,000 2007 Home to a huge carnivore, this Alaskan island was discovered in 1763 by fur trader Stephan Glotov

Key West 4x $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2019 Fun things to do on this island include taking a photo at the Southernmost Point buoy & visiting Ernest Hemingway's home

J $600 2017 This historic Florida island is home to the southernmost city of the lower 48 states

DJ $1,000 1988 The southernmost city in the lower 48 states is on this island

a volcano 4x $700 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2008 The Canary Islands' highest point, 12,000-foot Pico de Teide, is the peak of a dormant one of these

DJ $2,000 2005 Soufriere Hills

DJ $200 2000 The island of Martinique was mainly formed by one of these & in 1902, partly destroyed by one

Worth Knowing (46)

the Columbia 3 the Aegean 3 Providence 3 Nantucket 3 Molokai 3 Mackinac 3 Louisiana 3 Kodiak Island 3 Key Largo 3 Florida 3 Coney Island 3 Brown 3 Bikini 3 Alaska 3 peninsula 3 Gilligan's Island 3 Three Mile Island 2 The Tempest 2 the Statue of Liberty 2 the Rhode Island Red 2 the Potomac 2 the Pacific 2 The Island of Dr. Moreau 2 the Great Salt Lake 2 the Cayman Islands 2 Texas 2 Santa Cruz 2 Roger Williams 2 Parris Island 2 Newport 2 Narragansett Bay 2 Massachusetts 2 Lake Erie 2 King Kong 2 Kauai 2 Gilbert Stuart 2 George M. Cohan 2 Fantasy Island 2 Ellis Island 2 Columbus 2 Catalina Island 2 Campobello 2 bungee jumping 2 Atlantic City 2 Antarctica 2 Robinson Crusoe 2

Africa

16 answers | 97 clues

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Papua New Guinea 19x 38.9% stumper $939 avg J:6 DJ:12 FJ:1

J $200 2019 New Guinea:Indonesia & this country

DJ $600 1994 Spanish explorer Ortiz de Retes named this second-largest island after a place in Africa

DJ $1,200 2015 If you want to live long and prosper, keep your distance when Vulcanis active, in this island country, abbreviated PNG

Madagascar 16x 14.3% stumper $1,007 avg J:4 DJ:10 FJ:2

J $200 2020 Found off the east coast, it's the world's fourth-largest island

J $500 2000 The Mozambique Channel separates this island nation from the African mainland

DJ $1,000 DD 1996 This Indian Ocean island, the world's fourth largest, is slightly smaller than Texas

Sicily 14x 7.7% stumper $492 avg J:7 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $300 1997 It's home to Europe's highest active volcano

J $600 2004 During WWII Malta controlled the sea lanes between North Africa & this Italian island 50 miles from Malta

J $1,000 2015 "See Mount Etna & feel the heat"

St. Helena 10x 11.1% stumper $750 avg J:3 DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $250 1983 Where Napoleon died in exile

DJ $600 1993 Longwood House, a Napoleonic museum, is maintained on this South Atlantic British territory

DJ $1,600 2007 Longwood House on this South Atlantic island is now a Napoleon museum owned by the French government

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the Canary Islands 7x $867 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $200 1992 Tenerife is the main island in this Spanish Archipelago off the Northwest Coast of Africa

DJ $1,000 1993 This island group makes up 2 provinces of Spain: Santa Cruz de Tenerife & Las Palmas

FJ 1992 The last place Columbus stopped for supplies before reaching the New World

Zanzibar 4x 50.0% stumper $700 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 2000 In 1874, after a 9-month trek, the body of Dr. Livingstone made it to this island off mainland Tanzania

DJ $600 1999 Now a part of Tanzania, this island known for its cloves was mentioned in "The Patty Duke Show" theme song

DJ $800 1993 This island belonging to Tanzania is the largest coral island off the African coast

Madeira 4x $1,325 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $1,000 1999 Wine production is a chief industry of this Portuguese island off Africa's northwest coast

DJ $1,000 1993 The Azores & this island group 400 miles off Morocco are districts of Portugal

J $1,300 DD 1991 Wine production is the main agricultural industry of this Portuguese island off the NW coast of Africa

Cape Verde 4x 25.0% stumper $750 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2016 The Ivory Coast is officially Cote d'Ivoire & as of 2013, this island country not far off is Cabo Verde

J $600 2020 Africa's westernmost nation is this island group whose name means "green cape"

DJ $2,000 2018 Portuguese is widely spoken in Praia, the capital city of this island nation off the west coast of Africa

the Faroe Islands 4x 25.0% stumper $1,100 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1991 The name of these Danish islands in the N. Atlantic may be Old Norse for "Sheep Islands"

DJ $1,000 1996 Torshavn is the capital & one of the principal ports of these Danish islands

DJ $1,000 1991 Though they sound Egyptian, these islands in the N. Atlantic are part of Denmark

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Lake Victoria 3 the Seychelles 2 the Nile 2 Tanzania 2 Cape Town 2 Ascension Island 2 a synagogue 2

North America

17 answers | 55 clues

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the Bahamas 6x 33.3% stumper $733 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $200 1994 New Providence, one of the smallest islands in this group, is the site of the capital, Nassau

DJ $800 2019 North Andros Island is the largest island of this nation 60 miles off the coast of Florida

DJ $1,600 2004 Although New Providence is this country's most populous island, Andros is the largest in area

Treasure Island 5x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1987 A map of this island was found at Admiral Benbow Inn among the papers of the late Bill Bones

J $500 1998 This island was specially built for San Francisco's Golden Gate Int'l Exposition of 1939 & 1940

DJ $1,600 2021 One of Captain Flint's crew, Ben Gunn is marooned on this title island for 3 years

Puerto Rico 5x 20.0% stumper $460 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1995 In square miles, the United States' largest islands are Hawaii, Kodiak & this one in the Caribbean

J $500 1989 100 billion gallons of rain fall annually in the Caribbean National Forest, a.k.a. El Yunque, on this island

DJ $200 1991 The name of this U.S. commonwealth means "rich port"

Prince Edward Island 5x 20.0% stumper $720 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 1997 In Canada the Northumberland Strait separates New Brunswick from this island province

DJ $800 2002 This island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is Canada's smallest province

J $1,000 DD 2023 This 2,200-square-mile Canadian island was named for a son of George III

Galveston 5x 20.0% stumper $1,180 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1996 This Texas island is named for a viceroy of Mexico, Count Bernardo de Galvez

DJ $800 1985 Largest island city in Texas

DJ $2,000 2019 From 1817 to 1821 Jean Lafitte ran his main smuggling operation from this island off the coast of Texas

St. Kitts 4x 25.0% stumper $1,200 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1995 This island near Nevis is actually the top of a volcanic mountain named Mount Misery

DJ $1,600 2009 In the Caribbean this island is partnered with Nevis

DJ $600 1995 This island that's paired with Nevis is also called St. Christopher

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the Caribbean 3 Baffin Island 3 the Antilles 3 Queen Elizabeth II 2 Ontario 2 Nevis 2 Haiti and the Dominican Republic 2 Cozumel 2 Antigua 2 the St. Lawrence River 2 the Gulf of St. Lawrence 2

South America

5 answers | 26 clues

Must-Know (1)

Easter Island 16x 6.2% stumper $912 avg J:3 DJ:13

J $200 2013 There are more than 600 giganticstone figureson this island

DJ $600 1998 In 1888 Chile took possession of this "holiday" island 2,200 miles to the west & leased it to sheep raisers

DJ $1,200 2005 Hainan

Should-Know (1)

Chile 4x 25.0% stumper $500 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2023 The "Big Island" of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago is shared between Argentina & this country

DJ $600 1991 45 square mile Easter Island in the South Pacific is part of this country's Valparaiso province

DJ $400 2015 (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) In 1888, this country annexed Easter Island, leasing the land for sheep-raising & later granted its inhabitants citizenship

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the Galapagos 2 the Amazon 2 Ecuador 2

Oceania

6 answers | 22 clues

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Australia 7x 14.3% stumper $486 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $100 2000 It takes up an entire continent

DJ $800 2017 If you were already a convict banished to this nation & committed a crime, you got sent to a tougher prison on Norfolk Island

J $100 2000 An island named for the animal seenherebelongs to this country[kangaroo]

Tonga 4x 75.0% stumper $1,450 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 2001 In this Pacific kingdom's constitution, males 16 or older are guaranteed a plot of land for farming

DJ $1,600 2022 It's the last remaining kingdom in Polynesia

DJ $1,600 2008 Legend says that the god Maui threw a fishhook into the sea from Samoa & brought up this current island kingdom

Maui 4x 50.0% stumper $500 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2000 This "Valley Island" is found between the islands of Molokai & Hawaii

DJ $1,200 2021 Visit the port of Lahaina or drive the Hana Highway on this Hawaiian island

J $200 1989 The 2nd largest Hawaiian island was named for this demigod, the most famous in Polynesia

Worth Knowing (3)

the Pacific Ocean 3 the Coral Sea 2 North Island 2

Middle East

4 answers | 13 clues

Should-Know (2)

Fiji 4x 50.0% stumper $1,250 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $1,000 2021 Once called Mount Victoria, Tomanivi on Viti Levu is the highest point in this nation

DJ $1,000 1992 Viti Levu is the largest of the more than 300 islands which make up this country in the South Pacific

DJ $1,000 1990 Suva, on the island of Viti Levu, is this Pacific nation's capital & largest port

Bahrain 4x $1,500 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1989 The only 2 island countries in the Middle East are Cyprus & this island in the Persian Gulf

DJ $1,600 2021 Ruled by the Al Khalifa family since the 18th c., this island nation has a name from Arabic meaning "two seas"

DJ $2,000 2022 The 15-mile-long King Faud Causewaylinks this island to Saudi Arabia

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the Solomon Islands 3 wild dogs 2

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