Island Extremes
The records, superlatives, and outright oddities of island geography — from the largest uninhabited island to a half-hour time zone and an island inside a lake inside an island. For serious island geographers only.
- Difficulty:
- hard
- Questions:
- 12
Questions in this quiz
Q1. Which is the largest uninhabited island in the world, used by scientists as a stand-in for Mars?
- • Devon Island
- • Wrangel Island
- • Baffin Island
- • Bouvet Island
Q2. Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron holds which world record?
- • Largest island in a freshwater lake
- • Largest island in the Arctic
- • Most remote inhabited island
- • Largest volcanic island
Q3. Puncak Jaya, the highest peak on any island in the world, rises on which island?
- • Borneo
- • Honshu
- • Sumatra
- • New Guinea
Q4. Alert, the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth, sits on which island?
- • Baffin Island
- • Ellesmere Island
- • Svalbard
- • Greenland
Q5. Which island nation earns significant national revenue by licensing its .tv internet domain?
- • Nauru
- • Tonga
- • Tuvalu
- • Kiribati
Q6. Which island nation consists of 29 coral atolls and includes Bikini Atoll?
- • Marshall Islands
- • Micronesia
- • Palau
- • Solomon Islands
Q7. Newfoundland is known for keeping which unusual time zone?
- • UTC−4:00
- • UTC−3:30
- • UTC−5:30
- • UTC−2:45
Q8. L'Anse aux Meadows, the only confirmed Norse settlement in North America, is on which island?
- • Greenland
- • Baffin Island
- • Newfoundland
- • Iceland
Q9. Which island's interior was stripped down to jagged limestone pinnacles by decades of phosphate mining?
- • Nauru
- • Tuvalu
- • Niue
- • Banaba
Q10. Which country is the flattest in the world, with a natural high point under 2.5 metres?
- • Tuvalu
- • Kiribati
- • Marshall Islands
- • Maldives
Q11. Which island contains the world's largest island-in-a-lake-on-an-island?
- • Baffin Island
- • Victoria Island
- • Southampton Island
- • Devon Island
Q12. Which island is the only place on Earth where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and orangutans share the same forests?
- • Borneo
- • Java
- • Sumatra
- • Sulawesi