The Marquesas Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean are a group of volcanic islands and an overseas collectivity of what country?
France The Marquesas Islands group lies about 852 mi (1,370 km) northeast of Tahiti and about 3,000 mi (4,800 km) west of Mexico (the nearest continental land mass). France claimed the Islands in 1842, and in 1870 incorporated them into French Polynesia. The impressionist painter Paul Gauguin eventually settled and died there.
The islands of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha are an "Overseas Territory" under the governance of which country?
What subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean, includes Guam, Wake Island, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Kiribati?
