People Who Died on Islands

Can you name the islands on which these famous people met their end?
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Person
Island
Ernest Shackleton
South Georgia
Erik the Red
Greenland
Queen Victoria
Isle of Wight
Isoroku Yamamoto
Bougainville Island
Theodore Roosevelt
Long Island
Dionysios Solomos
Corfu
Éamon de Valera
Ireland
Juan Ponce de León
Cuba
Chiang Kai-shek
Taiwan
Ferdinand Marcos
Oahu
Fletcher Christian
Pitcairn
Falco
Hispaniola
Napoleon
Saint Helena
Saint Lucy
Sicily
Henry Morgan
Jamaica
Bobby Fischer
Iceland
Richard Nixon
Manhattan
James Cook
Hawaii
Joan Miró
Mallorca
Vitus Bering
Bering Island
Karl Marx
Great Britain
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8 Comments
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Level 86
Apr 4, 2026
Updated with some easier ones.
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Level 74
Jun 11, 2024
This was recommended to me just now, and I was thinking "Is this because of Michael Mosley's recent death? Isn't this a little in bad taste?" But nope, he wasn't in the quiz.
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Level 88
Jun 11, 2024
Nice quiz.
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Level ∞
Jun 11, 2024
Good one!
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Level 86
Jun 14, 2024
Thank you!
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Level 83
Jun 12, 2024
Nice quiz. They just found Shackleton’s last ship off the coast of Newfoundland, interestingly (it only sank in 1961, though, long after he died).
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Level 79
Jul 5, 2024
nice quiz, but Capodistria is not an island, but a city on Istria peninsula (now Koper, Slovenia)
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Level 86
Mar 3, 2025
In 1525 it was still an island, like several other towns in Istria.