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1. Macquarie Island, Australia is the only island in the world where you can walk on the mantle not the crust.
True
False
2. Tasmania is the only location where Tasmanian Tigers were found
True
False
3. It took Communist China only 3 days to take the island of Xiamen, but they were never able to take its neighbor Kinmen
True
False
4. Bouvet Island is an atoll that is not in the Pacific or Indian Oceans.
True
False
5. Indonesia is the country with the most islands
True
False
6. The Faroe Islands celebrate their occupation in WWII.
True
False
7. The Channel Islands are the only part of the UK proper taken in WWII.
True
False
8. Napoleon has been exiled 3 times: Minorca, Elba, and St. Helena
True
False
9. San Andreas and Providencia are islands off the coast of Nicaragua that are owned by Colombia; also, they are home to Fort Warwick which was constructed by English Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Company.
True
False
10. There are 5 MAJOR islands owned by Norway in the North Atlantic: Bear, Jan Mayan, Nordaustlandet, Hopen, and Spitsbergen
The Channel Islands are not part of the UK, though. The mantle one is interesting, although I suppose it is really "material which has come from the mantle".
The Channel Islands are not part of the UK, though. The mantle one is interesting, although I suppose it is really "material which has come from the mantle".
They are a self-governing British crown dependency, but as soon as you say UK, it's clear - the Channel Islands are not in it.