Islands by Country #2

There are several "North Island"s.

I think you misread the previous statement. Tasmanians refer to the Australian mainland - which is north of Tasmania - as the north island. I've heard this too, though it's rare and very much tongue in cheek.

A favorite T-shirt in New Zealand shows an outline of the country with a microscopic Australia to the side, with the labels North Island, South Island and West Island.

weird...same percentage of people got sahkalin correct as curacao and mindano...would have thought the latter two were more recognizable...only got sahkalin right because i lived there

I got Sakhalin probably because I've memorized it for other island-related quizzes on the site. I got Mindanao because I spend a lot of time in the Philippines and have been there before, though actually I think I had heard of it before my first trip. Curacao I knew was a famous cruise stop in the Caribbean but that one actually took me the longest to get. I knew that the Dutch had some islands there so got it on my 3rd or 4th guess I think.

I learned Sakhalin from lots of island Jetpunk quizes I've done (and the world map on my toilet wall), and when a Russian person started at my workplace (in New Zealand) I asked whereabouts she was from and was very excited when she said Sakhalin. She was very surprised I knew where it was.

That is a surprisingly random, completely incorrect fact.

Savalas was born in New York, of Greek parents. I doubt he ever even holidayed in Sakhalin.

Telly Savalas was of Greek ancestry, but was born in the USA. Do you mean Yul Brynner? He was born in Far Eastern Russia, though I believe in Vladivostok, not Sakhalin.

Hong Kong is only partly an island - the "original" Hong Kong was just the island, but it's not nowadays (Kowloon and New Territories are on mainland China). It's also questionable if Hong Kong fully belongs to China - it was a british crown colony, and is classified as a Special Administrive Region. (sorry for long text chunk lol)

All true, but the island upon which Central, Wan Chai, Aberdeen, etc. reside is still called Hong Kong (though Hong Kong (transliterated (badly) from 香港) actually means 'fragrant harbor' (don't ask what fragrance) and so doesn't refer to any 'land' at all). Although it is an autonomous region, it fully belongs to China, and people of Chinese descent born in Hong Kong (before or after the transition) are considered by China as Chinese nationals.

^what he said

Lol only got Sakhalin cuz it sounds like stalin.

Majorca bugs me. I remember that from last time I took this quiz. I know it's the correct English spelling but I don't like it. In Spanish it's Mallorca and the ll is basically pronounced like j. In Germany we call it Mallorca too. Some people pronounce the ll as a ll though. Which is annoying too but less than an actual j in the spelling. If that makes any sense. XD

Yeah, and I suspect the 'j' is used in English because it is intended to be pronounced like an English 'j', but people, knowing the place is in Spain pronounce it as a Spanish 'j', which actually takes you further from the proper pronunciation. Much easier to just use the proper spelling.

Zealand should be in New Zealand, not Denmark!!!!

Sure. And New York should be in the UK, and New Orleans in France.

Actually, by the logic presented in saying that Zealand should be in New Zealand, it SHOULD follow that York and Orleans should be in the United States.

Notably the Dutch one is Zeeland, not Zealand, but despite being named after a place in the Netherlands, the spelling of a place in Denmark is used.

Thanks for the typo, Jim.

No one in Italy would ever consider Venice as an island. 117 islands are part of the city, but the city itself seats on the mainland. Would you ever consider the whole Italy as an island?!!?

I wanted to say what are you on about it is completely surrounded by water and as much an island as say tasmania. But I looked it up and, mind is blown, what I and I think the rest of the world and the rest of jetpunk know as venice is only part of it, the bigger chunk actually IS on the mainland.

ofcourse a certain smartass will come along and say that he knew that all along.. but I am pretty sure that 99% of the people dont know this. Even in satellite quizzes venice is only shown as the island with the rialto bridge

Still had several left, but I was like "Phuket".

Curacao is an independent country according to Wikipedia and the webpage cause I searched it up

jandjandlemur..........Where did you search to get such wrong information?.......

Quizmaster, I'm using your name in a logic puzzle, I hope you're okay with that.

Wow, the U.K. really failed when it named an island Mainland Orkney.

I always thought Tahiti was in the Lesser Antilles.