| Year Discovered | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1503 | Ecuadorian islands that inspired Darwin. | Galápagos Islands | 89%
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| 1820 | The last continent set foot on by humans. | Antarctica | 85%
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| 1511 | North Atlantic island, famous for the “triangle” and shipwrecks. | Bermuda | 85%
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| 1690 | Disputed South Atlantic islands, site of 1982 war. | Falkland Islands | 85%
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| 1502 | Remote Atlantic island, Napoleon’s final place of exile. | St. Helena | 85%
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| 1456 | Portuguese-discovered archipelago off West Africa. | Cape Verde | 81%
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| 1643 | Named by an English captain after its discovery on Christmas Day. | Christmas Island | 81%
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| 1470 | Equatorial islands in the Gulf of Guinea, later major sugar colonies. | São Tomé and Príncipe | 81%
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| 1596 | Arctic archipelago north of Norway, now home to the Global Seed Vault. | Svalbard | 78%
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| 1507 | Not a family get-together — but a French island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar. | Réunion | 74%
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| 1503 | Indian Ocean island nation, once a pirate hideout. | Seychelles | 74%
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| 1775 | Volcanic islands are named after a famous Earl… not what you put between bread. | South Sandwich Islands | 74%
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| 1522 | Tiny French island named after the Dutch capital. | Île Amsterdam | 70%
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| 1675 | Remote South Atlantic isle & Shackleton's final resting place. Once a whaling hub — now mostly penguins and seals. | South Georgia | 59%
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| 1506 | The world’s most remote inhabited islands. | Tristan da Cunha | 59%
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| 1614 | Norwegian Arctic volcanic island, a military base and weather station today. | Jan Mayen | 56%
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| 1790 | Remote Pacific islands settled by the HMS Bounty mutineers. | Pitcairn Islands | 56%
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| 1819 | Named after Scottish islands, but these ones are far too cold for ponies. | South Shetland Islands | 56%
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| 1772 | French “Islands of Desolation” in the subantarctic Indian Ocean. | Kerguelen Islands | 52%
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| 1701 | Remote Atlantic base later used by NASA. | Ascension Island | 44%
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| 1609 | Indian Ocean islands first sighted by Europeans in 1609, later settled by Malays in 1825. | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | 44%
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| 1853–1855 | Where penguins meet lava — Australia’s only active volcanoes. In the subantarctic. | Heard & McDonald Islands | 37%
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| 1821 | Remote islands northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Despite the name, orcs don't live here. | South Orkney Islands | 33%
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| 1663 | South African subantarctic wildlife havens, mostly penguins not princes as the name implies. | Prince Edward Islands | 30%
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| 1500 | Home of the Moriori people, east of New Zealand. | Chatham Islands | 26%
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| 1473 | Tiny volcanic island south of São Tomé, now part of Equatorial Guinea. Its name means ‘Good Year’ in Portuguese. | Annobón | 22%
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| 1559 | Neighbor of the island above. Has a saintly name, but not much of a holiday spot. | Île Saint-Paul | 22%
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| 1507 | Smallest of the Mascarenes, east of Mauritius, named after the Portuguese navigator who discovered them. | Rodrigues | 15%
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| 1788 | Australian island in the Tasman Sea, World Heritage listed. | Lord Howe Island | 7%
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| 1810 | Australian sub Antarctic island, breeding site for royal penguins. | Macquarie Island | 7%
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| 1772 | Bleak French subantarctic bird colonies — sounds like a pastry, but croissants aren't on the menu. | Crozet Islands | 4%
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