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1. A Caribbean island which composes the principal territory for two independent nations. One is the only independent French speaking country in the Caribbean.
2. A South American island, famed for its fires, shared by Chile and Argentina.
3. An island of the East Indies shared by a newly independent state and the country with the world's largest Islamic population. Formerly shared by Netherlands and Portugal.
4. We stay in the region for a further island formerly shared by European colonial powers, this time Netherlands and Germany (later replaced by Australia). Now part of the fourth most populous country in the world and shared with a small developing state which gained independence in 1975. Also known by some as the second largest island in the world.
5. We are in northwest Europe now looking for an island occupied by one of the world's oldest democracies and one of its former colonies. It is famous for giants and 'little people'.
6. A former British colony in the Mediterranean now split between Greeks and Turks.
7. In the Caribbean there is a small island shared by the Dutch and the French. One half is French and therefore in the EU and uses Euros despite being in the Caribbean. The other half was part of the Netherland Antilles before they were dissolved in 2010.
8. Back to Southeast Asia to an island shared by three nations. One had Mr Sukarno as its first independent president, one is among the richest, per capita nations in the world, and the third was the host of the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
9. This Spanish speaking island, the largest in the Caribbean, has an unwelcome partner with a toehold on the island. It can be compared in some way with the UK's involvement in Cyprus.
10. This island is in the Gulf and is shared by Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
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