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Islands & Outposts
Remote rocks, lonely atolls and islands with absurd names. The further a place is from anywhere, the more likely the panel has an oddly specific story about it.
28 places in this collection
- 1Easter Islandnatural landmark · Chile
He visited on Easter Day in 1722, which is why he gave it the name Easter Island.
Open this place → - 2Prince Edward IslandCanada
A quarter of Canada's potatoes are grown and processed on Prince Edward Island by McCain, who are the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products.
Open this place → - 3Andaman Islandsnatural landmark · India
There was another group called the Jurawas who were in the Andaman Islands and they saw the patterns of the waves changing and they had this ancient knowledge that knew that there was something that was a…
Open this place → - 4South Island (Te Waka-a-Māui)natural landmark · New Zealand
There is a $10,000 reward for any photographic proof of the South Island Coca-Co.
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- 6Isle of Wightnatural landmark · United Kingdom
There was someone recently on the Isle of Wight who brought back a lovely old fossil from the beach and caused the entire resort to be evacuated because it was an old hand grenade.
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- 8Ascension Islandnatural landmark · Saint Helena
In 2010, a group of botanists were doing this routine plant survey on Ascension Island — the tiny island in the South Atlantic.
Open this place → - 9Rhode IslandUnited States
He lives in Rhode Island, and he has the world record most number of unread emails in his inbox.
Open this place → - 10Disco IslandGreenland
He was an English explorer and whaler, and it was originally called Ducky's Island, then Ducco's Island, then Dicco's Island, then Disco's Island, and eventually Disco Island.
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- 12Long IslandUnited States
The Broccoli family immigrated to Long Island from Calabria at the turn of the 20th century, descended from the Broccolis of Calabria, who were the first to cross cauliflower and rape to produce the broccoli —…
Open this place → - 13Falkland IslandsFalkland Islands
It was in the 1760s, and it was captained by Lord Byron's grandfather — the same guy who named and claimed the Falkland Islands.
Open this place → - 14Canary IslandsSpain
The highest point in Spain is in the Canary Islands, Mount Tied.
Open this place → - 15Wrangel IslandRussia
The last woolly mammoths were on a place called Wrangel Island, which is amazingly named.
Open this place → - 16Disappointment IslandNew Zealand
They were called Disappointment Islands for a different reason — it was because John Byron found that the people who lived there were of a hostile disposition and they didn't like him.
Open this place → - 17Cayman IslandsCayman Islands
Most of these members are tiny little colonies like American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Curacao, Faroe Islands, Guam, Hong Kong is a member of FIFA,…
Open this place → - 18Cook IslandsCK
The people of Mangaia, which is an island in the Cook Islands, don't kiss at all.
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- 21Norfolk IslandNF
If you were badly behaved in Britain and you got sent to Australia, if you were badly behaved in Australia, then they'd send you even further to Norfolk Island.
Open this place → - 22Sandwich IslandsUnited States
I don't think I'd like to watch the Sandwich Islands version of the Great Sandwich Island Bake-off.
Open this place → - 23Vancouver IslandCanada
It was specifically in Canada, off Vancouver Island in a place called the Salish Sea, just near the border with the US.
Open this place → - 24Rathlin IslandUnited Kingdom
Rathlin Island is the island where Robert the Bruce went after a battle, and it's where he saw the spider.
Open this place → - 25North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui)New Zealand
The name of North Island in New Zealand is Teika our Maui, which means fish of Maui, because that's from when he caught a fish and turned it into an island.
Open this place → - 26Coffee Club IslandIceland
The most northerly point of Greenland is called Coffee Club Island.
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- 28Nicobar IslandsIndonesia
The Sentinelese people are a totally isolated group of people who live in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India.
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