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Islands
Land Surrounded by Water
How islands form and which ones people misplace.
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What is the largest island in the world?
Islands
How islands form, and the ones worth knowing.
Islands are geography at its most legible: small enough to hold in mind whole, and shaped by processes you can often see happening. This category covers how they form, volcanic, continental and coral, along with the largest, the most remote and the ones repeatedly misplaced on mental maps. It takes in the archipelagos that make up entire countries. The explanations connect each island to its origin, since knowing whether a place is a volcano top, a stranded piece of continent or a coral ring explains most of its landscape, wildlife and shape.
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Land Surrounded by Water
How islands form and which ones people misplace.
2 easy
2 medium
1 hard
6–9 min each
5 quizzes in Islands
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Islands
Island Nations of the World
Ten countries that have no land border with anybody, from the Caribbean to the central Pacific.
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Which island nation lies roughly 800 kilometres east of Madagascar and was the only home of…
Medium
Islands
Islands of the Pacific
Ten questions on the ocean that holds more islands than all the others put together.
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Easter Island, home of the moai statues, is administered by which country?
Medium
Islands
Islands With a Story
Prisons, exiles, monasteries and one very expensive swap involving nutmeg.
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Which island in New York Harbor processed arriving immigrants between 1892 and 1954?
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How Islands Are Made
Hotspots, subduction, sinking volcanoes and drowned hills — the four or five ways land ends up surrounded by sea.
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The Hawaiian island chain formed as the Pacific plate drifted over what?
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About Islands quizzes
How many Islands quizzes are there?
5 published quizzes in this subject, 50 questions in total. Every one is researched, written and checked by hand.
How hard are they?
The mix here is 2 easy, 2 medium and 1 hard. Difficulty is about how obscure the answers are, not how fast you have to be — there is no timer on any quiz.
How long does one take?
About 7 minutes on average, ranging from 6 to 9. Playing every islands quiz would take roughly 1 hour.
Which one should I start with?
"Land Surrounded by Water" is the gentlest way in — 10 questions, about 6 minutes, rated easy.
Do I need an account?
No. Every quiz is free and playable straight away. An optional free account only saves your scores across devices.
Do you explain the answers?
Yes — every question has a short explanation of why the right answer is right, shown the moment you answer, whether you got it or not.