Islands: the Pacific and Indian Oceans

Indonesia's smallest province, and home to most of its Hindu minority – a popular tourist destination			Bali
Lies immediately to the east of Java, from which it's separated by the strait to which it gives its name
The largest island in the Pacific Ocean; the world's third largest, and the only one that's administered by three different countries (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia)			Borneo
Kalimantan is the Indonesian name for, and the name used in English for the Indonesian part of
Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia), Brunei (now a sovereign state): the last two (Sarawak and Brunei) are former British colonies
Name given to a Pacific island discovered by Captain Cook in 1777; its current official name is a transliteration of this name into the local (Gilbertese) language; claimed by the USA in 1856, but ceded to the Republic of Kiribati in 1983; occupied by the Allies during WWII, and the site of Britain's first H–bomb tests in 1957			Christmas Island
Island group between Madagascar and mainland Africa (Indian Ocean)			Comoros
Pacific group – largest are Rarotonga, Palmerston and Mangaia			Cook Islands
Pacific island, famous for its (hieroglyphics and) 900 stone statues (moai)			Easter Island
Known in the local language (which has the same name) as Rapa Nui
Atoll in the Marshall Islands (central Pacific Ocean) where the first hydrogen bomb was detonated in 1952			Eniwetok
Formerly known as the Cannibal Islands			Fiji
On the Equator, approx. 600 miles West of Ecuador			Galapagos Islands
Isabela, Santa Cruz, San Cristóbal, San Salvador and Fernandina are the largest islands in the
Guy Fawkes Island (Isla Guy Fawkes) is a group of small uninhabited islands in
Named after a village in Spain, which was the birthplace of Pedro de Ortega Valencia, a member of the expedition that discovered it (the island) in 1568 (the expedition was led by Álvaro de Mendaña)			Guadalcanal
Japan's second largest island			Hokkaido
Japan's largest island: home to about 83% of the country's population (104 million out of 125 million, in 2021)			Honshu
Amsterdam Island, Kerguelen, Crozet Island, McDonald Island			Indian Ocean
Western New Guinea – the western half of New Guinea, known from 1973 to 2002 as Irian Jaya – is part of (country)			Indonesia
Home to 60 per cent of the population of Indonesia, making it the world's most populous island			Java
Chilean island (group) on which Alexander Selkirk was cast away – renamed Robinson Crusoe Island 1966			Juan Fernandez
Alaska's largest island (in the Gulf of Alaska, off the south–eastern coast), and the USA's second largest after Hawai'i; part of the archipelago of the same name; has a bear named after it			Kodiak
Indonesian island after which the World's largest lizard is named			Komodo
Chain of islands from Hokkaido (Japan) to the Kamcharka peninsula (Russia) – the southernmost of which are subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between the two countries			Kuril Islands
Island in the Tasman Sea, discovered in 1788 by a convict ship on its way from Sydney to Norfolk Island; named after a British admiral, best known for his service during the American War of Independence			Lord Howe Island
Largest island in the Philippines			Luzon
Largest island in the Indian Ocean; home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, 80% of which are endemic to it – including the lemurs and the cat–like fossa			Madagascar
The world's fourth largest island, and the largest that's a single sovereign state in its own right
Largest of the Seychelles			Mahé
In the Indian Ocean, 400 miles South–West of Sri Lanka			Maldives
Collective name for Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues (after the 16th–century Portuguese explorer who 'discovered' them)			Mascarene Islands
Second largest of the Hawaiian islands (after Hawaii)			Maui
Largest of the Mascarene Islands			Mauritius
The dodo (extinct since the mid–to–late 17th century) was native to
Island in the Comoro group that is an overseas region and department of France			Mayotte
Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu are the four sovereign states in (subregion of Oceania)			Melanesia
Name shared by Australia's second largest island (2,234 sqare miles) and Canada's eighth largest (16,274)			Melville Island
Second–largest island in the Philippines (after Luzon)			Mindanao
Hawaiian island, has the world's highest seas cliffs			Moloka'I
Indonesian islands, once known as the Spice Islands			Moluccas (Maluku)
Irian Jaya was the name used from 1973 to 2002 for the Indonesian (western) part of			New Guinea
Third largest of the Hawaiian islands (see Maui), and home to 80% of its population			Oahu
Honolulu, Pearl Harbor and Waikiki Beach are on
Mt. Pinatubo: volcano in the			Philippines
Island group off British Columbia, north of Vancouver Island; includes Graham Island, Moresby Island, and about 150 smaller islands			Queen Charlotte Islands
Island between Madagascar and Mauritius that is an overseas region and department of France			Réunion
Russia's largest island (part of the Japanese group – slightly smaller than Hokkaido)			Sakhalin
Island off Los Angeles: largest town is Avalon, which has been home at different times to Zane Grey and Marilyn Monroe			Santa Catalina
Approx 800 miles NE of (the northern tip of) Madagascar (Indian Ocean)			Seychelles
Guadalcanal, Malaita, San Cristobal, New Georgia, Santa Isabel			Solomon Islands
Formerly known as Serendip			Sri Lanka
Adams Peak is a mountain on, Adam's Bridge is a group of islands off
South of South Island – New Zealand's third–largest island			Stewart Island
The largest island belonging wholly to Indonesia			Sumatra
Largest of the Society Islands (the Society Islands are part of the French Overseas Country of French Polynesia); visited by Captains Cook and Bligh			Tahiti
Named Van Dieman's Land by Abel Tasman, on discovery in 1642, after his sponsor, the Governor–General of the Dutch East Indies; proved to be an island in 1799 by Bass and Flinders; established as a British colony in 1825, and officially renamed in 1856			Tasmania
Nicknamed the Apple Island
Port Arthur (former convict settlement)
Part of Indonesia; gives its name to the sea on which Darwin is situated			Timor
Once known as 'the Friendly Islands', because of the congenial reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773			Tonga
Separated from mainland Canada by the Juan de Fuca Strait			Vancouver Island
Received by Britain from Germany, in 1890, in return for Heligoland			Zanzibar
Joined Tanganyika, 1963, to form the Republic of Tanzania
Pemba (famous for its cloves) and Mafia Island are two of the three main islands of (the archipelago of)

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Islands: the Pacific and Indian Oceans