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Islands by Shape #1

Can you identify these islands based on their shape?
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Last updated: April 16, 2018
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First submittedFebruary 5, 2014
Times taken67,789
Average score62.5%
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Level 61
Nov 23, 2014
Celebes doesnt work
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Level 23
Dec 13, 2014
Can you accept uk instead of typing in Great Britain
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Level 22
Jul 5, 2016
No, because UK is the country that includes Great Britain, Northern Ireland and overseas territories. Great Britain is the name of the island.
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Level 79
Jan 19, 2019
The UK does not include the overseas territories. The British Overseas Territories do not form part of the United Kingdom.
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Level 59
Oct 3, 2017
There is no island called United Kingdom.
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Level 55
Jul 30, 2015
Here's the deal about Australia. Instead of going on about how it's a continent and not an island, why not celebrate the fact that it's the only inhabited continent that is an island!
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Level 60
Jan 30, 2024
Not that I'd like to be a downer, but then where would you put the line fall between Australia and the continental landmasses of Antarctica, Afro-Eurasia, and the Americas? (Genuine question.)
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Level 83
Sep 30, 2015
The map of just Great Britain without all the Scottish islands looks like it's had a drastic haircut.
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Level 61
Oct 12, 2016
:D
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Level 20
Nov 25, 2015
I need to be a better speller. Cypress sounds right! :)
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Level 71
Apr 15, 2016
It is .......... for the tree not the Island.
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Level 38
Dec 15, 2015
Poor Tasmania... ...It's been forgotten again!
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Level 65
Jan 19, 2020
Why? It is its own own separate island
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Level 55
Jul 5, 2016
Australia is a continent, not an island.
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Level 60
Jul 5, 2016
Australia is a continent and an island
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Level 22
Jul 5, 2016
In fact, it's the largest island in the world.
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Level 84
Apr 17, 2018
If Australia is an island, so is Antarctica, which is bigger. And the Americas are an even bigger island. And Africo-Eurasia is the world's largest island. See what happens when you consider continents islands?
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Level 77
Jul 11, 2022
So, just to play devil's advocate, what is the definition of a continent? What makes Australia, one landmass, a continent and the next-smallest landmass, Greenland, only an island?
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Level 60
Jan 30, 2024
I'm not sure there's a widely accepted standard, but the way I see it, each continent has one continental landmass. For example, the continental landmass of Europe would be Afro-Eurasia. Australia would be the continental landmass of Oceania. The landmasses that are not continental landmasses are islands.
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Level 74
Oct 28, 2022
Australia is the largest Australia in the world. Everyone knows that.
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Level 57
Jul 5, 2016
Isn't Hawaii an archipellago?
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Level 65
Jul 5, 2016
It is. But there is an island of the Hawaiian archipelago named 'Hawaii'. :)
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Level 84
Apr 17, 2018
Aka "the big island".
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Level 74
Jul 5, 2016
If Australia is an island we could call North+South America an island by the same logic. A continuous landmass surrounded by water.
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Level 75
Jul 5, 2016
One could say the same thing about Europe+Africa+Asia.
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Level 65
Jul 5, 2016
Island doesn't mean Mainland
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Level 74
Jul 5, 2016
Well if you look up "mainland" instead of throwing the word around, its description fits Australia fairly well.
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Level 65
Jul 5, 2016
Amazing: a JetPunk breakthrough! Quizmaster finally agrees to Austraia being an island and a continent! :)
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Level 22
Jul 9, 2016
UK threw me off! :)
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Level 59
Jul 20, 2017
UK isn't on this quiz.
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Level 68
Aug 12, 2016
Australia is a continent!!! "Australia and Oceania" is a region and continent of Australia is a part of that region. Eurasia and Africa are the same land mass (later separated by humans) but divided into 3 continents based on cultural differences. Cyprus is geographically considered to be part of southwest Asia but from cultural pov (Greek culture) it belongs to Europe.
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Level 68
Aug 12, 2016
Also The United Kingdom can not be an answer for Great Britain for it is a country that finds itself on that island. If it were an answer, you could name Hispaniola Haiti or Sumatra Indonesia...
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Level 65
Aug 16, 2016
Man, I could not identify Sicily without a boot about to kick it...
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Level 58
Sep 3, 2016
missed crete, baffin and hokkaido
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Level 63
Sep 20, 2016
Hokkaido looks like a Manta ray crossed with a shark.
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Level 82
Oct 3, 2017
and Crete looks like a sea slug
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Level 61
Oct 12, 2016
I got all except Hokkaido; I knew it was one of the Japanese islands but I don't know the names of any of the Japanese islands :(
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Level 74
Jan 19, 2019
Presume now with a score of 53, you now know most/all of them ;)
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Level 60
Jan 30, 2024
I wouldn't be so sure about that. There are plenty of people who don't pay attention to a few subjects but play a lot of other quizzes.
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Level 40
Apr 30, 2017
Hawaii isnt an island, change it to Oahu
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Level 68
May 24, 2017
Yes, it is. Big Island is actually named Hawaii.
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Level 47
Aug 13, 2017
Maybe do some research before commenting next time.
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Level 43
Feb 24, 2019
First of all, yes it is; second of all, Oahu is as all but it's a different island in the Hawaiian Archipelago.
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Level 68
May 24, 2017
Sequel? Would probably be a lot harder. Maybe include borneo, madagascar, ireland, taiwan, etc
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Level 13
Sep 12, 2017
you should accept uk and united kingdom
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Level 71
Oct 3, 2017
I trust jetpunkers will not be too bored but:......... UK is a sovereign country that includes Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and many included islands. This quiz asks for the name of the 'Island' shown. The name of the island shown is 'Great Britain' ..... similarly the island of Manhattan cannot be called USA.
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Level 75
Jan 20, 2019
Copy and paste repeatedly for those who don't read previous comments.
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Level 55
Oct 3, 2017
Australia is a continent, not an island.
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Level 71
Oct 3, 2017
English Oxford Dictionary: ISLAND = A piece of land surrounded by water.
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Level 82
Oct 3, 2017
continent = landmass larger than an island
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Level 88
Jan 20, 2019
Then Australia's not an island because there is hot magma underneath it and air above, thus it is not surrounded by water.
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Level 71
Jun 17, 2019
In that case Kal Greenland is a continent
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Level 78
Feb 18, 2022
Convention trumps pedantry.
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Level 60
Jan 30, 2024
There isn't really any convention in this case, I don't think.
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Level 82
Aug 27, 2022
Malbaby: no, it's not, because Greenland is an island. Continents are landmasses larger than Greenland.... Greenland is not larger than Greenland.
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Level 70
Oct 3, 2017
Looks weird to see Australia without Tasmania. I think I did too many map quizzes..
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Level 23
Oct 21, 2017
I thought this quiz meant countries when it said islands not places within the country because they are part of the country and not a single island
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Level 36
Feb 22, 2018
Please accept UK or England also for Great Britain, nobody calls it Great Britain any more
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Level 71
Apr 16, 2018
The island is called Great Britain, just because you don't know that fact does not make it wrong........... If it could be called UK then Ireland the Island could also be called UK as part of UK is Northern Ireland.
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Level 75
Jan 20, 2019
Copy and paste repeatedly for those who don't read previous comments.
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Level 88
Jan 20, 2019
I've always thought of the island as just Britain and Great Britain including other territory.
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Level 74
Oct 28, 2022
Just wait until you visit Terrible Britiain.
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Level 69
Apr 17, 2018
Better to answer in a colored square rather than randomly?
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Level 84
Apr 18, 2018
Dang it Canada! Only two I missed.
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Level 80
May 3, 2018
Funny that Hawaii is harder to recognize for people than Baffin or Hokkaido.
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Level 55
May 15, 2018
Dude! Australia is a continent, not an island!
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Level 75
Jun 11, 2018
Mate! It can be both!

Definitions of continents are not agreed upon anyway - I consider Australia to be part of Oceania

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Level 79
Sep 9, 2018
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but some folks might argue that Australia is a continent. Also, other people might want you to accept UK or England for Britain. But again, I'm not sure if anyone has already brought these points up over and over again yet. Just in case, I thought I'd mention it.
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Level 60
Jan 30, 2024
And also, I'm not sure if anyone else has pointed this out, but Hawaii is an island chain. But maybe this has been repeatedly pointed out without any researching done and is objectively false. I don't know.
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Level 65
Dec 10, 2018
This makes me realize how much Java and Crete look like one another.
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Level 88
Jan 20, 2019
I always confuse New Guinea and Hispaniola. I know full well the 1st is a smooshed parallelogram and the 2nd has that gianormous bay in Haiti, but it still gets me.
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Level 60
Jan 19, 2019
I got every one except Hawaii. Then saw that random fact that appears on the bottom of every quiz, it said "Hawaii is the only US state that produces coffee commercially." Typed Hawaii, got it at the last second.
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Level 74
Jan 19, 2019
Pls consider accepting GB for Great Britain
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Level 22
Jan 21, 2019
Can you be less lenient with some answers e.g. UK for great Britain and Papa new guinea for new guinea
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Level 68
Apr 21, 2020
No, because UK is not an island, and neither is Papua New Guinea. I understand that many people confuse the UK for Great Britain, but it really isn't. Also, Indonesia takes up half of New Guinea, so saying that Indonesia is part of Papua New Guinea is like saying Ireland is part of the UK. It isn't
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Level 31
Mar 17, 2019
Australia je Srbija
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Level 88
Mar 17, 2019
I still don't recognize that first island.
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Level 71
Mar 18, 2019
Methinks thou art a stirrer
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Level 63
Mar 17, 2019
All done with 2:10 remaining. Excellent quiz!
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Level 65
May 25, 2019
new guinea looks like a dinosaur swimming and sulawesi looks like a female looking left, with a headdress.
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Level 65
May 25, 2019
(and crete like a slug and hokkaido like a stingray..)
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Level 72
Sep 26, 2019
Kept thinking Crete was Java but not quite right
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Level 38
Feb 11, 2021
i got Crete first try
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Level 64
Dec 17, 2019
I feel so stupid after being stuck on Crete and thinking it was Java...
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Level 49
Nov 7, 2020
thats not what greenland looks like......
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Level 60
Jan 3, 2022
Look it up. Mercator projection makes it look different.
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Level 63
Feb 10, 2021
spent about 30 seconds wondering why it wouldnt accept java...
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Level 74
Oct 28, 2022
Maybe you need more java :)
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Level 59
Dec 27, 2021
bruh how is sulawesi more guessed than HAWAII
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Level 60
Jan 3, 2022
Sulawesi's shape is very distinct, while Hawaii's hard to recognize, especially for non-Americans.
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Level 60
Jan 3, 2022
On the island countries quiz, Australia isn't an island country since its mainland isn't an island. Why is it an island here?
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Level 74
Oct 28, 2022
Obviously this is a rhetorical question :)
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Level 60
Jan 30, 2024
Just pointing out that it's inconsistent. I concede that it can be argued either way, but it should be standardized across featured quizzes.
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Level 59
Feb 3, 2022
glad to know im not the only one thinking crete was java
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Level 23
Oct 20, 2022
yeah i thought crete was java too
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Level 21
Mar 13, 2022
Australia Is Not An Island
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Level 29
Sep 19, 2022
palestine
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Level 74
Feb 5, 2023
Me looking at this quiz after all the island quizzes that excluded Australia for being a continent: 'so that was a ****ing lie'
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Level 44
Nov 1, 2023
Clicked on this quiz, saw Australia as an island, and said "What the heck is Australia doing on here aren't they technically a continent?" (although I consider Oceania as the continent Australia is in)
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Level 32
Nov 26, 2023
I seriously thought Crete was Java island, they look nearly identical