Q1. What is an island?
A landmass that is entirely covered by water, be it small or big.
Q2. What is an Islet?
A very small island.
Q3. What are Key or Cay?
Other names for relatively small island or islet.
Q4. What is an Eyot?
An island on a river or lake.
Q5. What is a Bar?
A kind of island formed by deposition of sediment where a current losses some of its carrying capacity. It can form in river or lakes.
Q6. What is an Archipelago?
A group of islands falling under one single identity.
Q7. What are the types of islands?
1. Oceanic 2. Tectonic and 3. Coral.
Q8. What is an oceanic island?
Island that rise from the bottom of the ocean. Their geological structure will have no relation to that of the nearest shores. They are either submarine mountains or volcanoes.
Q9. Give a few examples of oceanic islands or volcanoes?
1. ASCENSION and TRISTAN DA CUNHA islands are submarine island mountains.
2. St HELENA and TENERIFFE - are islands of submarine volcanoes.
Q10. What is a Tectonic Island?
Islands are created by the movement of earth's crust. The outermost layer of the earth made of rigid plates, are in slow but constant motion. When one plate is pushed into another, the top plate may scrape off pieces of the bottom plate. Over millions of years such materials fuse together to form an island.
Q11. Give a few examples of Tectonic islands?
Barbados in West Indies, Kodiak Island near Alaska, USA.
Q12. What is a Coral island?
They are formed by the minute sea organisms, called Coral Polyps. They congregate in large colonies. When the organisms dies, their skeletons which are made of a substance resembling lime stone, form big clusters, some of which rise above the water to form an island.
Q13. What is an Atoll?
Islands which have an opening, forming a horse shoe type, through which sea water enters and forms a lagoon. Sometimes, it may be more land and less water area or the vice versa.
Q14. Give an examples of Atoll?
KWAJELIN in Marshal Island - land area 2850 SQKM while lagoon area is 280 SQKM.
Q15. What is a Continental island and give an example?
Are those islands on the continental shelf of a continent. Eg: Greenland, Great Britain.
Q16. What is a Micro Continental island?
A special type of continental island, which is formed when a continent is rifted. Eg: Madagascar of Africa.
Q17. What is a Desert Island?
An island that is uninhabited.
Q18. What is an island country and give a few examples?
An island that is in itself a country, either alone or along with a few more, and does not have any connection with a mainland. Eg:
1. Australia
2. UK
3. Cuba
4. New Zealand
5. Sri Lanka.
Q19. How many independent island countries are there?
48 sovereign countries.
Q20. Which island is a country and a continent?
Australia.
Q21. Which island country has the most number of islands ( archipelago ) in its territorial jurisdiction?
Indonesia - with about 17500 islands.
Q22. Name a few other island countries with a large number of islands in its jurisdiction?
1. Philippines in South China Sea 7107 islands.
2. Japan in Pacific Ocean - 3000 islands.
3. Bahamas in Atlantic Ocean - 700 islands.
4. Fiji in Pacific Ocean with over 322 islands.
5. Kiribati in Pacific Ocean with 33 Atolls.
6. Seychelles in Indian Ocean with 158 islands.
7. Trinidad and Tobago in Carribean Sea with 23 islands
Q23. Which island country, lying on the Persian Gulf, is a kingdom and also the Smallest of the Arab nations?
Bahrain.
Q24. Which island country and independent, shares the island with two other similar countries?
BRUNEI - on the Borneo island, shares the island with a province each of Indonesia and Malaysia.
Q25. Which island country on the Carribean Sea is named after Sunday?
DOMINICA in Latin it means Sunday. It is named so because Columbus discovered it on Sunday.
Q26. Which island nation and archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean, has a sizeable Indian population?
Fiji.
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Q27. Which island in the Atlantic Ocean, is partly an independent nation and the other part is still under UK's control?
Ireland - the Southern portion is independent. The northern half is still Under UK's control.
Q28. Which island/archipelago nation has the most number of atolls?
Kiribati.
Q29. This island nation is famous for world's larger share of flora and fauna and lies on the Indian Ocean. Name it?
MADAGASCAR - It is home to nearly 5% of world's plants and rare Animal species, of which 80% are indigenous to the island.
Q30. An island country on the South Pacific Ocean with no official capital and also the smallest island republic?
Nauru.
Q31. Samoa an island/archipelago nation was earlier known as?
German and Eastern Samoa.
Q32. Republic of China, an island nation is also called as?
Taiwan or Chinese Taipei.
Q33. Papua New Guinea is an island nation that also shares the island with another nation?
Indonesia.
Q34. Where lies the famous island nation Singapore?
Southern tip of Malay Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
Q35. Which island nation in Atlantic Ocean, once ruled almost the entire world?
United Kingdom in North Atlantic Ocean, Europe.
Q36. Which island nation is called the "Friendly Islands" and why?
TONGA - on the South Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Hawai'i. It is named so because, captain cook the famous navigator received a warm welcome when he arrived here.
Q37. Which island nation that is comprised of two islands and called the North and South?
New Zealand.
Q38. What is the closest island nation to India, how was it known earlier and what separates it from India?
Sri Lanka - earlier known as Ceylon. Separated from India by Palk Strait.
Q39. What is the largest island in the world?
Greenland under the administrative control of Denmark.
Q40. What is the remotest island?
Bouvet island - under Norway on the South Atlantic Ocean.
Q41. What is the remotest archipelago?
TRISTANA DA CUNHA - South Atlantic Ocean.
Q42. Which is the largest island on a fresh water lake?
Mantoulin Island on lake Huron, USA.
Q43. Which island country granted voting rights to women first?
New Zealand.
Q44. Who gave the name "Australia" to this island nation?
British Naval Officer Mathew Flinders.
Q45. What are the three groups of islands that form the West Indies?
Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and Lesser Antilles.
Q46. Which island was acquired by China from Portugal in 1999?
Macau.
Q47. Which is the first island nation to ban smoking in restaurants and pubs?
Iceland.
Q48. People of which island nation are called "Bhajans"?
Barbados.
Q49. Which island nation is famous for holding the famous "Match of the Century", a chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky?
Iceland.
Q50. Which island was used by the US to conduct nuclear tests during the mid 20th century?
MARSHALL ISLANDS - It comprises of two chains of islands. The western Chain is called the Ralik Group and the eastern chain is called the Ratak Group.
Q51. What is the name of the island formed on the Niagara Falls?
GOAT Island - divides Niagara falls into Horse Shoe Falls of Canada and American Falls on the USA side.
Q52. Which is the world's second largest lake island?
Island in Lake Baikal, Russia.
Q53. Which is the largest island in Asia?
New Guinea in Pacific Ocean.
Q54. Which is the largest volcanic island?
Sumatra - Indonesia.
Q55. Which island/archipelago is associated with Charles Darwin's works?
Galapagos island - in Ecuador, where Charles Darwin had done most of his works.
Q56. Which island was earlier known as "Sandwich Islands"?
Hawai'i islands, USA.
Q57. Where is the "Christmas Island"?
Indian Ocean - comes under Australian territory. 2600 Kms north west of Perth.
Q58. Which is the world's largest river based island and what is the importance?
Majoli island on river Brahmaputra and the importance is the Vaishnavite monasteries.
Q59. Silhoutte, Conception, Cousin, Long, Round, Anonyme, Beacon, Booby are All?
Islands in Seychelles.
Q60. What was the earlier name for the Liberty Island where the famous Liberty Statue is located?
Bedloe island.
Q61. Which island is shaped like a fish hook?
Bermuda.
Q62. Which island in the Pacific Ocean is partly under the control of Argentina an partly under Chile?
Tierra Del Fiugo - near southern most tip of South American mainland, across the strait of Magellan.
Q63. Which is the world's largest uplifted coral island?
NIUE under New Zealand territory.
Q64. Which is the second largest island in the world?
New Guinea. (largest is Greenland)
Q65. Which island in Franc e was the birth place of Napoleon Bonaparte?
Corsica.
Q66. Galapagos island (recall association of Charles Darwin with this) is a province of which country?
Ecuador - known for its unique wild life.
Q67. Which islands are the farthest North?
Northern Mariana Islands
Q68. Which is the smallest island in the world?
Bishop Rock - South west of UK.
Q69. Which is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Sicily.
