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1. This Norwegian dependency includes the volcano Beerenberg, a radio station and a weather forecast station.
2. This island is the largest of the South Orkney Islands and used to be a base for whalers.
3. This is the largest of the South Shetland Islands. The harbor is called Admiralty Bay.
4. South Sandwich Islands are seven volcanic islands. Which is the largest of them.
5. We remain in the southern Atlantic. I want the name of an island which is part of the St.Helena dependency Tristan da Cunha. It is the westernmost of the Tristan da Cunha Islands.
6. This island is also part of the St.Helena dependency. Its volcanic crater Green Mountain is 2817 ft.
7. Now I want the name of a Norwegian island in the Antarctic. Annexed by Norway 1929.
8. I want an island belonging to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. 21 people live here, in a small settlement called La Roche Godon.
9. Now to the Pacific. I want the name of an island which was formally taken over by USA in 1912. It was discovered by Captain Sawle of the American ship which the island was to be named after.
10. We are still in the Pacific. This island is the smallest of the 4 islands which constitute the British colony Pitcairn Islands.
11. Now I want a French Pacific island off the coast of Mexico. It was discovered and used as a base by an English pirate whose name is identical with the island.
12. This Pacific island belongs to Chile and was named after the person who was the original of Defoe's hero Robinson Crusoe.
13. Still in the Pacific: Which is the second largest of the islands that constitute the Federated States of Micronesia? This place is often called 'the island of stone money'.
14. Now to Canada and the largest uninhabited island in the world.
15. This is the largest island of Russia.
16. This is the largest island of a now independent state that is a former Spanish colony.
17. This island, or rather two islands, belong to South Africa. They are the southernmost locations of this country.
18. Now I want the largest island of the Seychelles.
19. This is the second largest island of a former British protectorate. Main settlement: Wete.
20. We remain in the Indian Ocean. Which of these island groups was NOT returned from the British Indian Ocean Territory to the Seychelles in 1976?
21. Still in the Indian Ocean, this atoll is part of the Maldive Islands. Main settlement: Hitaddu.
22. This, however is the island on which the capital of the Andaman Islands, Port Blair, is situated.
23. This is the largest of the Cook Islands.
24. I want the name of a dependency of Mauritius. Its main settlement is Port Mathurin.
25. Finally I want one of the Comoro Islands. Main settlement is Mutsamudu.
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