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In 1947 the United Nations granted which country the right to govern islands in Pacific as a Trust Territory?

posted Jan 10, 2019 by Anamika

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What subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean, includes Guam.............

posted Nov 26, 2021 by Ritika

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Where are The Kerguelen Islands, a territory of France, also known as Desolation Island?

posted Apr 14, 2016 by Amarvansh

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The islands of Kos, Leros, Nisyros, Patmos and Rhodes are in what sea?

posted Jul 19, 2022 by Varun Kumar

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Which island was a major exporter of phosphate from 1907 until deposits ran out in the 1980s?

posted Nov 29, 2018 by Nikita Sehgal

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The small isolated volcanic island called Ascension Island lies approximately midway between what two land masses?

posted Oct 21, 2017 by Prachi Sharma

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Which country occupies the islands called Palawan, Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate, Batanes, Bohol, Leyte and Samar?

posted Mar 28, 2022 by Akriti

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What subregion of Oceania includes Fiji, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Norfolk Island, the Solomon Islands.............. [MCQ]

posted Jan 12, 2018 by Ritika

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What is the present name of a large group of islands in the heart of the western area of the Coral Triangle.............

posted Apr 21, 2022 by Parampreet Kaur

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The first Punic War was fought mainly on which island?

posted Dec 8, 2020 by Saif Khanam

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On which island is the port of Messina?

posted Sep 26, 2019 by Brijesh Talwar

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What is grown particularly in the wide shallow seas off the island of Okinawa in Japan? [MCQ]

posted Apr 25, 2018 by Prachi Sharma

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What is unusual about the Saint Pierre and Miquelon Islands (south of Newfoundland)?

posted Sep 1, 2017 by Aarati Mahajan

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What is the name of the whirlpool system between two islands of the Lofoten Group north west of Norway? [MCQ]

posted Jan 22, 2018 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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Mount Etna and the Plain of Catania are on which island?

posted Jul 26, 2019 by Ankur Athari

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What is the name of the former island in the East End of London that is bounded on three sides? [MCQ]

posted Apr 16, 2018 by Sandeep Otari

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How many islands are listed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency as part of Chile?

posted Feb 25, 2016 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Where is the island named Groote Eylandt?

posted Dec 13, 2019 by Pardeep Kohli

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The island of Taiwan is off the coast of where?

posted Mar 4, 2019 by Chahat Sharma

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In late September 2020, the island state of Tasmania, Australia, became a matter of international interest..............

posted Jun 9, 2021 by Aarati Mahajan

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The capital of which French island in the West Indies between Dominica and Santa Lucia, St Pierre, was destroyed........

posted Apr 3, 2017 by Anamika

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The uninhabited Malgas Island, or Bird Island, is the largest breeding colony in the world of what?

posted Feb 17, 2016 by Anil Chaurasiya

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Where is the island of Tristan da Cunha?

posted Jun 26, 2017 by Mohammad

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Which country occupies the islands called Euboea, Kefalonia, Khíos, Zakynthos, Thassos, Lefkada, Karpathos and Kythira?

posted Apr 26, 2022 by Upma

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Which small island in the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb at the south end of the Red Sea was administered as part.............

posted Nov 24, 2017 by Brijesh Talwar

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What island was occupied by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Goths, Saracens, Normans, and the Angevin, Hapsburg............

posted Nov 18, 2016 by Prithvi

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The island called Martha's Vineyard off the south of Cape Cod in New England is in which state of the USA?

posted Sep 8, 2021 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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The islands of Zanzibar and Madagascar are in which ocean?

posted Jul 16, 2019 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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Unguja and Pemba Islands are the two main islands of a semi-autonomous archipelago in which country?

posted Jul 15, 2019 by Varuna Magar

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Which group of around 200 Greek islands in the Aegean Sea includes Andros, Naxos, Paros and Milos?

posted Oct 14, 2017 by Upma

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Which country administers the uninhabited subantarctic Campbell Island, which lies at 52°32′24″S 169°8′42″E?

posted Jul 18, 2016 by Madhavi Latha

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Which island fort, built to protect the port of Charleston, South Carolina, USA, was the site of the first action.......

posted May 16, 2016 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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The shape of which island nation could be described as a spear point, or a teardrop?

posted Oct 5, 2016 by Puneet Batra

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The Kermadec Islands in the Pacific are part of the territory of what country?

posted Oct 12, 2017 by Puneet Batra

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Which island is governed in the western half by Indonesia and in the eastern half is independent?

posted Jan 13, 2017 by Pankaj Deshmukh

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Where is Baffin Island?

posted Sep 7, 2016 by Karan Joglekar

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The volcanic Gaua Island is part of what Pacific country? [MCQ]

posted Jan 24, 2018 by Aastha Joshi

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There is a ban on doing what on the islands in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway?

posted Mar 25, 2022 by Sandeep Otari

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Coney Island, the pleasure resort off Long Island, is part of which New York borough?

posted Sep 24, 2018 by Vishal

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In 1971, on which island was the largest underground test of nuclear weapons ever conducted by the USA?

posted Nov 7, 2022 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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Alderney is one of which group of islands?

posted Jul 15, 2021 by Samardeep Acharya

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What is an unusual aspect of Jacquemart Island, part of the Campbell Islands?

posted Mar 16, 2022 by Swati Arora

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The USA tested munitions on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, a territory of the USA, until when?

posted Feb 6, 2019 by Nikita Sehgal

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Where is South Georgia Island? [MCQ]

posted Feb 20, 2018 by Vikram Luthra

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Where are the Nicobar Islands?

posted Nov 28, 2022 by Brijesh Talwar

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What city was founded on the island of Manhattan by Peter Minuit in 1626?

posted Oct 23, 2021 by Rajni

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What was Ellis Island, in New York harbour, used for from 1892 to 1954?

posted Jan 19, 2023 by Sidharth Malhotra

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What island, 1 mile from Manhattan, which has been used by the army as an isolation centre for infectious diseases......

posted Jun 16, 2022 by Upma

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The islands of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha are an "Overseas Territory" under the governance............

posted Nov 22, 2018 by Akriti

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The Penguin Islands lie off the coast of which country?

posted Sep 19, 2017 by Aman